''The Apprentice'' (french: L'Apprenti) is a 1991

animated short Animation is a method by which still figures are manipulated to appear as moving images. In traditional animation, images are drawn or painted by hand on transparent celluloid sheets to be photographed and exhibited on film. Today, most anima ...

Richard Condie Richard Condie, (born 1942) is a Canadian animator, filmmaker, musician and voice actor. Condie is best known for his 1985 animated short '' The Big Snit'' at the National Film Board of Canada and has won six international awards for ''Getting ...

, produced in

Winnipeg Winnipeg () is the capital and largest city of the province of Manitoba in Canada. It is centred on the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, near the longitudinal centre of North America. , Winnipeg had a city population of 749,6 ...

by Ches Yetman for the

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. A more enigmatic work than Condie's popular short ''

The Big Snit ''The Big Snit'' is a 1985 animated short film written and directed by Richard Condie and produced by the National Film Board of Canada. Plot A married couple plays a game of Scrabble that has stalemated as the husband is unable to come up with ...

'', the film is a series of animated blackout sketches, telling the story of a medieval

jester A jester, court jester, fool or joker was a member of the household of a nobleman or a monarch employed to entertain guests during the medieval and Renaissance eras. Jesters were also itinerant performers who entertained common folk at fairs and ...

and his young

apprentice Apprenticeship is a system for training a new generation of practitioners of a trade or profession with on-the-job training and often some accompanying study (classroom work and reading). Apprenticeships can also enable practitioners to gain a ...

. The "dialogue" is supplied by gargling noises, sampled on a computer. The film received a Blizzard Award for Best Animation at the 1993 Manitoba Motion Picture Industry Association Film & Video Awards.

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Watch ''The Apprentice/L'Apprenti'' at NFB.ca
1991 short films Films directed by Richard Condie National Film Board of Canada animated short films Animated films without speech Fictional jesters 1990s animated short films 1991 animated films 1991 films Canadian animated short films Quebec films 1990s Canadian films {{1990s-short-animation-film-stub