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Bernard Longpré
Bernard Longpré (January 1, 1937 – June 24, 2002) was a Canadian director and animator. Longpré was born in 1937 in Montreal, Quebec. Filmography * ''An Introduction to Jet Engines'' (1959) * ''Bandwidth'' (1960) * ''Four-line Conics'' (1961) * ''Fundamentals of Fish Spoilage'' (1962) * ''An Introduction to NUTMEG'' (1963) * ''IFF Mark 10: Selective Identification Feature'' (1963) * ''The Ball Resolver in Antac'' (1964) * ''Country Auction'' (1964) * ''Test 0558'' (1965) * ''Glaciation'' (1965) * ''Dimensions'' (1966) * ''En février'' (1966) * ''L'Évasion des carrousels'' (1968) * ''Tête en fleurs'' (1969) * ''Dimension soleils'' (1970) * ''Nébule'' (1973) * ''Branch et Branch'' (1974) * ''Contes de la mère loi sur cinéma'' (1975) * Monsieur Pointu (film), ''Monsieur Pointu'' (1975) * ''L'Invasion (1775-1975)'' (1976) * ''Les Naufragés du quartier/One Way Street'' (1980) * ''La Solution'' (1985) * ''Itinerary/Itinéraire'' (1987) * ''Felicity/Félicité'' (1989) Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montreal
Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-most populous city in Canada and List of towns in Quebec, most populous city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Quebec. Founded in 1642 as ''Fort Ville-Marie, Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", it is named after Mount Royal, the triple-peaked hill around which the early city of Ville-Marie is built. The city is centred on the Island of Montreal, which obtained its name from the same origin as the city, and a few much smaller peripheral islands, the largest of which is Île Bizard. The city is east of the national capital Ottawa, and southwest of the provincial capital, Quebec City. As of 2021, the city had a population of 1,762,949, and a Census Metropolitan Area#Census metropolitan areas, metropolitan population of 4,291,732, making it the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-largest city, and List of cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monsieur Pointu (film)
''Monsieur Pointu'' is a 1975 animated film about Quebec fiddler Monsieur Pointu, the stage name for Paul Cormier. Synoposis In this 12-and-a-half-minute film, Pointu and his violin break into pieces that take on a life of their own, dancing to the artist's music. Production The film was directed by Bernard Longpré and André Leduc and produced by René Jodoin for the National Film Board of Canada. ''Monsieur Pointu'' makes use of the pixillation technique pioneered by NFB animation studio founder Norman McLaren in ''Neighbours'' and ''A Chairy Tale'', combined with optical effects. Critical reception ''Monsieur Pointu'' was screened at the 1978 Festival of Animated Films in Ottawa. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 48th Academy Awards. March 27, 1976, ''The Ottawa Journal'' Section 3, Page 37 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Animated Film Directors
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of French and then the much larger British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian identity. Canada has also been strongly influenced by its linguistic, geographic, and ec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1937 Births
Events January * January 1 – Anastasio Somoza García becomes President of Nicaragua. * January 5 – Water levels begin to rise in the Ohio River in the United States, leading to the Ohio River flood of 1937, which continues into February, leaving 1 million people homeless and 385 people dead. * January 15 – Spanish Civil War: Second Battle of the Corunna Road ends inconclusively. * January 20 – Second inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt: Franklin D. Roosevelt is sworn in for a second term as President of the United States. This is the first time that the United States presidential inauguration occurs on this date; the change is due to the ratification in 1933 of the Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution. * January 23 – Moscow Trials: Trial of the Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Center – In the Soviet Union 17 leading Communists go on trial, accused of participating in a plot led by Leon Trotsky to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime, and assas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
