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René Jodoin (1920–2015) was an animation director and producer who founded the French-language animation studio of the National Film Board of Canada, in 1966.
Total trailers found: 24
01 January 1984
This is a didactic film in disguise. A progression of brilliant geometric shapes bombard the screen to the insistent beat of drums.
01 January 1966
In this short animation film the triangle achieves the distinction of principal dancer in a geometric ballet.
01 January 1969
This animated short is a play on motion set against a background of multi-hued sky. Spheres of translucent pearl float weightlessly in the unlimited panorama of the sky, grouping, regrouping or colliding like the stylized burst of some atomic chain reaction.
10 May 1973
Blocks and balls fight simply because they are different, until their battle reduces everyone to the same shape.
01 January 1944
This animated short co-animated by René Jodoin and Norman McLaren was produced for inclusion in the Let's All Sing Together sing-along series.
21 September 1969
Line drawings, flowing freely across the screen, suggest a head-in-the-clouds feeling as Claude Gauthier recalls a lost but sweet love of other days.
01 June 1960
This film combines colour, animation and sound to clarify principles of radio wave transmission. It illustrates how antennas propagate radio waves and how they may be adapted to increase the bandwidth of transmissions.
01 January 1960
Combining colour, animation and sound to clarify principles of radio-wave transmission, this film illustrates how antennas propagate radio waves and how they may be adapted to increase the directivity of transmissions.
01 January 1969
Musician and composer 'Claude Dubois' presents his view of the effects of the growth of urban areas, specifically industrialization and overuse of non-human elements resulting in a need to overly control how we as people live within this environment.
31 March 1960
Combining colour, animation and sound to clarify principles of radio-wave transmission, this film illustrates how antennas propagate radio waves.
01 January 1959
Training film for the Canadian Department of National Defence.
01 October 1974
In this Oscar-nominated animated short film, director Peter Foldès depicts one man’s descent into greed and gluttony.
01 January 1971
An elementary school film on multiplication based on the theories of Professor Zoltan Dienes.
01 June 1976
Monsieur Pointu would like to play his fiddle. But the fiddle has other ideas.
01 January 1972
This experimental short documents the clash, sometimes obsessive, sometimes glorifying, between humans and their mechanized environment.
01 January 1978
This funny yet serious short film demonstrates the effectiveness of advertising and the marketing machine.
01 August 1949
Produced for the National Film Board of Canada
01 January 1973
Humorous, full of unimaginable finds, this animated short invites the viewer to follow the antics of a horse trying to acquire a force equivalent to that of a horsepower.
01 January 1969
A satirical, updated take on the classic Jean de La Fontaine fable.
01 January 1961
Squares and other geometric shapes appear to "dance" along to music through their ever-changing movements.
01 January 1967
A childhood fantasy where dreams carry a boy far to adventure. He arrives in Canada on an ocean liner and is, in turn, a hunter of polar bear, a cowboy, a hockey star, and a swimmer.
01 January 1984
In this film, which takes place to the rhythm of Schubert's Military March, the point, this first form, by its multiplication and the chosen orientations, allows us to see how it can be chained to form lines, shapes, surfaces, to form ensembles that ultimately occupy the entire surface of the screen.
