When we had behaved ourselves in school we were allowed to watch films sometimes on a Friday afternoon. It was a different age - boys were allowed to play with knives, lonely men operated light houses on the East coast of Canada and small boats fished for codfish in the Gaspe. It's one of the two or three bits of primary school education that I remember. The film is called 'Paddle to the Sea' (National Film Board 1966) and it's based on a book of the same name which was written in 1941.
Part Two is HERE
Part Three is HERE
or the whole film (slightly better quality) can be found HERE
A later generation's NFB childhood can be found HERE - an animated film called 'The Hockey Sweater'
2 comments:
What brought up Paddle to the Sea? Flying from Vancouver to Montreal in October the airplane fly along the northern shore of Lake Superior, giving me a great look at Lake Nipigeon, and the Nipigeon River rushing downhill to Superior. All I could think of was Paddle-to-the-Sea!
Peter
I've seen this too, here in Scotland, I think the good old beeb used national film board films too.
Speaking as one who is a little older, when we had been good in school, we watched film strips (no sound) which had to be manually moved, frame by frame by the teacher alternate frames of pictures and screens with words. Come to think of it I used them in the mid-seventies when I was teaching too.
We also had an early french primary school series on filmstrip with a tape recording which had to be manually advanced hopefully in synchronisation. The opening lines, which are all I can remember went: "Bonjour Lynne", "Bonjour Monsieur le professeur". Having remembered these immortal lines for over 45 years, I am sure they must have been very well drummed in as we all recited them in chorus, week after week!
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