Robert Verrall Trailers
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Robert Verrall (born January 13, 1928, in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian animator, director and film producer who worked for the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) from 1945 to 1987. Over the course of his career, his films garnered a BAFTA Award, prizes at the Cannes Film Festival and Venice Film Festival, and six Academy Award nominations.
One of the first to join the NFB's fledgling animation unit, under Norman McLaren, Verrall would work as animator on such notable NFB animated shorts as The Romance of Transportation in Canada and produce such shorts as Cosmic Zoom, Hot Stuff as well as the Academy Award-nominees The Drag and What on Earth!. His NFB animation credits as executive producer included The Family That Dwelt Apart and Evolution, also Oscar nominees.[1][2][3][4]
Verrall was named director of English-language NFB animation in 1967, and director of NFB's English-language production overall, in 1972. In the 1980s he acted as executive producer on a number of NFB co-productions, including the film adaption of The Wars, and The Tin Flute. His documentary production credits include Alanis Obomsawin's 1986 Richard Cardinal: Cry from a Diary of a Métis Child. He is the father of David Verrall, who would himself go on to head the NFB's English-language animation unit.
Most Popular Robert Verrall Trailers
Total trailers found: 55
01 January 1973
A film demonstrating steps to take in the event of a nuclear attack. Animated drawings show the effects of atomic explosions in the air and at ground level.
01 January 1984
Three native Canadians find a boy on the side of a highway who had been struck by a speeding driver.
02 February 1968
This short animation transports us from the farthest conceivable point of the universe to the tiniest particle of existence, an atom of a living human cell.
01 January 1986
This short documentary is a moving tribute to Richard Cardinal, a Métis adolescent who committed suicide in 1984.
01 January 1979
This short film from the Canada Vignettes series depicts the Montreal of 1905-1910 with hand-painted vintage postcards.
01 January 1968
An early experiment in employing computers to animate film. The result is a dazzling vibration of geometric forms in vivid color, an effect achieved by varying the speed at which alternate colors change, so producing optical illusions.
01 January 1978
This short film from the Canada Vignettes series profiles a unique French-Canadian family, the Fourniers, 12 of whom work as stunt men and women for films.
01 January 1979
An animated film showing a woolly mammoth and its offspring. These animals lived on the Canadian tundra over ten thousand years ago.
01 January 1966
A BAFTA award winning documentary demonstrating what energy is, revealing the relationship between the various forms of energy and matter.
01 January 2009
This feature documentary by Alanis Obomsawin is a thoughtful tribute to Norman Cornett, a McGill University professor celebrated by scores of students appreciative of his unconventional yet powerful teaching methods who was controversially dismissed from his teaching duties in 2007.
01 January 1979
This short animated film is about Wop May, one of Canada's leading bush pilots in the 1920s.
05 March 1985
A baseball crazed 12 year old gets, and loses, a prized cap. A father struggles for dignity in his son's eyes.
01 January 1972
Witty cartoon in a popular idiom about the serious issues that face the world: overpopulation, starvation, and people’s selfishness when confronted with these.
01 January 1968
There are three boxes in the same sphere. In one box, a human figure is having trouble fitting in. Sometimes he tries to conform, sometimes he tries to escape, and sometimes he just tries to do what he wants despite the box.
01 January 1980
On a beautiful summer’s day in Nunavik, a family enjoys the pleasures of berry picking and fishing as the sound of two Elders throat-singing fills the environment.
01 January 1964
This quirky little short by Gilles Carle was filmed on the pierced rock that stands near Quebec’s Gaspé peninsula.
01 January 1978
The maple leaf on the Canadian flag turns into two profiles that illustrate the many relationships between people.
01 January 1959
This short documentary offers a panorama of ancient cities, palaces and temples whose splendor has awed mankind.
23 August 1984
This feature-length drama explores the changing role of men in today's society by delving into the stories of 4 men and their relationships with women.
14 April 1978
This animated short tells a humourous Hebrew folk tale about a man's venture to introduce onions to a far away kingdom and a disreputable man's attempt to exploit that.
01 January 1975
Face of the Earth explores the origin of our planet's outer layer, the why-and-how of its mobility. Through the use of well-designed diagrams, the earth's cyclical activity is clearly explained.
01 January 1967
A documentary about the self-taught painter William Kurelek, told through his paintings. There are scenes of village life in the Ukraine and the early days of struggle on a prairie homestead and the growing comfort of family life.
04 April 1986
A group of actors in the East Village of New York City have been rehearsing for a play when the lead actress in the play turns up dead.
10 October 1969
A scientist develops an unusual pair of eyeglasses which allows the wearer's mind to see things objectively rather than the usual subjective manner.
01 January 1975
Kathleen Shannon describes the look and feel of her childhood to an artist friend, and uses his paintings and her visit to the ruins of the mining site where she grew up to reflect on her early life and how it influenced the adult she became.
14 October 1973
A family of seven lives on a New England island with nobody else. One winter, they got stranded because the bay froze over.
01 January 1978
Animated images showing the variety of people who live in Canada.
22 October 1968
An amusing diagnosis of big-city growing pains, Boomsville is an ironic view of town planning, or rather, the lack of it, and what has happened to our cities as a result.
20 November 1983
Robert Ross (Brent Carver) lives a protected adolescence in a well-off Toronto suburb. Secretive and withdrawn, he shares his thoughts only with his sister Rowena (Anne-Marie MacDonald) who is mentally disabled.
01 January 1971
This tongue-in-cheek cautionary tale by Croatian director Zlatko Grgic traces man's checkered history with fire, and shows how growing carelessness in the form of overloaded sockets, smoldering cigarettes and other fire hazards can have highly undesirable consequences.
28 February 2014
The life and work of the documentary pioneer.
01 January 1978
Two hundred years ago Captain Cook stopped briefly at Nootka Sound. This animated vignette depicts how he began the sea otter trade which led to the development of the Pacific north west.
04 January 1970
A chain-smoking woman has an encounter with a vampire.
01 January 1978
An animated film depicting the evolution of the City of Toronto from 1749 to 1978.
01 January 1978
Bill Miner was a train robber in British Columbia at the turn of the century. This animated film depicts a disastrous episode in his career.
01 January 1977
A young designer, Selma Bryant-Fournier, starts her career in a large clothing manufacturing firm in Montreal.
01 January 1978
The history of the development of modern logging techniques on the British Columbia coast.
31 December 1952
This film provides a brief history of the fur trade in Canada, showing its effects on exploration and settlement.
01 January 1973
An incident from the early days of Québec's quiet revolution, tailor-made for the cartoonist. It is the story of a Montréal commuter train, a unilingual ticket collector and a bilingual passenger.
01 January 1972
An engaging illustration, by animation artist Rhoda Leyer, of the fable in which the warm sun proves to the cold wind that persuasion is better than force when it comes to making a man take off his coat.
01 January 1979
Wild rice is an important source of food and revenue for many Anishinaabe people, who sometimes travel hundreds of kilometres to harvest the grain in the region around Kenora, Ontario.
27 December 1969
A fanciful story, done in paper cut-outs, of a boy's journey through the skies on the tail of a kite.
01 January 1948
Millions of years scroll by in 10 minutes, illustrated by ingenious designers: this is the geological history of Canada.
01 January 1970
A compilation of satirical anti-smoking clips.
01 January 1971
A study of life at Christmastime in Moose Factory, an old settlement mainly composed of Cree families on the shore of James Bay, composed entirely of children's crayon drawings and narrated by children.
01 January 1960
A collection of one-minute cartoons produced by the National Film Board of Canada animators for government sponsors.
21 August 1971
An amusingly drawn cartoon about a highly proficient lady bricklayer, graduate of Specialists' School, whose work takes her high up in the world, and her erstwhile friend, whose equally dedicated professionalism brings him lower.
01 January 1984
Incident at Restigouche is a 1984 documentary film by Alanis Obomsawin, chronicling a series of two raids on the Listuguj Mi'gmaq First Nation (Restigouche) by the Sûreté du Québec in 1981, as part of the efforts of the Quebec government to impose new restrictions on Native salmon fishermen.
01 January 1974
A cartoon film about the whole heterogeneous mixture of Canada and Canadians, and the way the invisible adhesive called federalism makes it all cling together.
01 January 1948
An animated film showing the sowing, reaping, and milling of wheat, the baking of bread and service to the lord of the manor in medieval Britain.
01 January 1979
Profile of a Chinese immigrant to Canada narrated by her son.
01 January 1987
Just north of the City of Edmonton lies Poundmaker’s Lodge, an addiction and mental-health facility specializing in treatment for Indigenous people.
01 January 1972
Exeter Cathedral in Devonshire, England, is considered to be the finest example of architecture of the Decorated period, 1250-1350.
01 January 1972
This short documentary showcases the work Paul Kane painted in the Canadian northwest in the mid-1800s.
01 January 1974
This short cartoon tells the story of a bear who didn’t believe in Christmas. His main problem with this most magical of holidays? Too many Santas.
