Robert Verrall Movie Trailers
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11 Steps to Survival Trailer (1973)
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.
The Specialist Trailer (1971)
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.
John Cat Trailer (1984)
01 January 1984
Three native Canadians find a boy on the side of a highway who had been struck by a speeding driver.
Richard Cardinal: Cry from a Diary of a Métis Child Trailer (1986)
01 January 1986
This short documentary is a moving tribute to Richard Cardinal, a Métis adolescent who committed suicide in 1984.
Canada Vignettes: Ma Chère Albertine Trailer (1979)
01 January 1979
This short film from the Canada Vignettes series depicts the Montreal of 1905-1910 with hand-painted vintage postcards.
Around Perception Trailer (1968)
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.
Canada Vignettes: Stunt Family Trailer (1978)
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.
Energy and Matter Trailer (1966)
01 January 1966
A BAFTA award winning documentary demonstrating what energy is, revealing the relationship between the various forms of energy and matter.
Professor Norman Cornett: 'Since when do we divorce the right answer from an honest answer?' Trailer (2009)
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.
Canada Vignettes: Wop May Trailer (1979)
01 January 1979
This short animated film is about Wop May, one of Canada's leading bush pilots in the 1920s.
The Cap Trailer (1985)
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.
Tilt Trailer (1972)
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.
In a Box Trailer (1968)
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.
Canada Vignettes: June in Povungnituk - Quebec Arctic Trailer (1980)
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.
Percé on the Rocks Trailer (1964)
01 January 1964
This quirky little short by Gilles Carle was filmed on the pierced rock that stands near Quebec’s Gaspé peninsula.
Canada Vignettes: The Maple Leaf Trailer (1978)
01 January 1978
The maple leaf on the Canadian flag turns into two profiles that illustrate the many relationships between people.
A is for Architecture Trailer (1959)
01 January 1959
This short documentary offers a panorama of ancient cities, palaces and temples whose splendor has awed mankind.
The Masculine Mystique Trailer (1984)
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.
Canada Vignettes: Onions and Garlic: A Hebrew Fable Trailer (1978)
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.
Face of the Earth Trailer (1975)
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.
Kurelek Trailer (1967)
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.
The Way It Is Trailer (1986)
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.
To See or Not to See Trailer (1969)
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.
Goldwood Trailer (1975)
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.
The Family That Dwelt Apart Trailer (1973)
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.
Laughter in My Soul Trailer (1983)
01 January 1983
This short documentary profiles cartoonist, painter, humorist, publisher, iconographer, and teacher Jacob Maydanyk.
Boomsville Trailer (1968)
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.
Cosmic Zoom Trailer (1968)
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.
Hot Stuff Trailer (1971)
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.
Documenting John Grierson Trailer (2014)
28 February 2014
The life and work of the documentary pioneer.
Canada Vignettes: Captain Cook Trailer (1978)
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.
Canada Vignettes: Woolly Mammoth Trailer (1979)
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.
Canada Vignettes: Bill Miner Trailer (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.
Canada Vignettes: Fashion Designer Trailer (1977)
01 January 1977
A young designer, Selma Bryant-Fournier, starts her career in a large clothing manufacturing firm in Montreal.
Canada Vignettes: Logger Trailer (1978)
01 January 1978
The history of the development of modern logging techniques on the British Columbia coast.
The Sky Is Blue Trailer (1969)
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.
Age of the Beaver Trailer (1952)
31 December 1952
This film provides a brief history of the fur trade in Canada, showing its effects on exploration and settlement.
Tickets s.v.p Trailer (1973)
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.
Time and Terrain Trailer (1948)
01 January 1948
Millions of years scroll by in 10 minutes, illustrated by ingenious designers: this is the geological history of Canada.
Ten Million Books: An Introduction to Farley Mowat Trailer (1981)
01 January 1981
Farley Mowat has sold more books than any other Canadian writer – 10 million copies in 22 languages in 50 countries.
The North Wind and the Sun: A Fable by Aesop Trailer (1972)
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.
Zoo Quest to West Africa Trailer (1955)
17 August 1955
In September 1954, David Attenborough, cameraman Charles Lagus, Jack Lester and Alf Woods, both from the Zoological Society of London, set out for Sierra Leone.
Appetizers Trailer (1960)
01 January 1960
A collection of one-minute cartoons produced by the National Film Board of Canada animators for government sponsors.
Canada Vignettes: Wild Rice Harvest Kenora Trailer (1979)
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.
Canada Vignettes: Toronto Trailer (1978)
01 January 1978
An animated film depicting the evolution of the City of Toronto from 1749 to 1978.
Christmas at Moose Factory Trailer (1971)
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.
The Wars Trailer (1983)
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.
Incident at Restigouche Trailer (1984)
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.
Propaganda Message Trailer (1974)
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.
What on Earth! Trailer (1967)
01 January 1967
In this Academy Award–nominated animated satire, Martian observers analyze life on Earth and reach a startling conclusion: automobiles appear to be the planet’s dominant species, while humans function merely as their parasites.
The Drag Trailer (1966)
01 October 1966
The film offers a comical look at dangers of addiction and the difficulties of quitting through the story of a chain smoker.
The Way It Is Trailer (1982)
01 January 1982
This sensitive drama examines the effects of divorce on a family, particularly on a twelve-year-old girl.
A Story About Breadmaking in the Year 1255 A.D. Trailer (1948)
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.
Canada Vignettes: Faces Trailer (1978)
01 January 1978
Animated images showing the variety of people who live in Canada.
Canada Vignettes: Helen Law Trailer (1979)
01 January 1979
Profile of a Chinese immigrant to Canada narrated by her son.
Poundmaker's Lodge: A Healing Place Trailer (1987)
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.
Paul Kane Goes West Trailer (1972)
01 January 1972
This short documentary showcases the work Paul Kane painted in the Canadian northwest in the mid-1800s.
Exeter Trailer (1972)
01 January 1972
Exeter Cathedral in Devonshire, England, is considered to be the finest example of architecture of the Decorated period, 1250-1350.