Juke-Bar

L'arrivée d'un rutilant juke-box dans un restaurant de deuxième ordre transforme la vie des coquerelles du lieu. Comédie musicale s'élaborant sur des airs de jazz, ce film nous entraîne dans un bar à la mode, reproduisant, à une échelle réduite, certains de nos comportements sociaux. Film sans paroles alliant tournage réel et animation de marionnettes.

Poor Mrs. Hen! Her oldest chick is a temperamental tyke. He even turns up his beak at the meals she serves. One day, she decides to teach him a lesson. This animated short is a touching and comical tale that pokes fun at motherhood. Without ever moralizing, it depicts the temper tantrums of a child and the efforts a loving mother makes to set her son on the right path. You don?t need to be a chicken to relate. A film without words. Technique: paper drawings and colouring. Lesson plan: www.nfb.ca/guides.

A single room serves as the setting for a lyrical dance through time in this evocative film about family roots and social values. The objects in the room swirl, rearrange and change themselves to reflect the passing seasons, years and generations. As Victorian Christmas fantasies give way to computer-age realities, the procession of objects reaffirms the values that endure the vagaries of fashion and the ravages of time. Film without words.