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- In attempting to secure his domicile against perceived external threats, our hero manages to create a more dangerous internal environment. The film uses humor to illustrate that problems can arise when freedom is sacrificed for safety.
- Through song and animated graphics, ice cutting on the St. Lawrence River in the 1860's is illustrated.
- Eight animated pieces by eight artists, from the studios of the National Film Board of Canada.
- When Uncle Sam is bothered by the commotion in Canada, he sends a goofy agent to learn about Canada's internal problems.
- Melbourne Cup day hardly brings Mt. Thomas to a standstill when a series of burglaries rock the town.
- An animated portrait of Canada and contemporary issues concerning the nation.
- Wayne's sporting hero, Big Don Danites, returns with his wife to her hometown of Mt. Thomas, but as a violent drunk he finds it hard to live up to his reputation.
- John Weldon tells the story of his difficult term as a teaching school student.
- In this animated short parodying the Greek myth, director Paul Driessen offers a backwards tragicomic version of the classic tale. Oedipus is Driessen at his absurdist best.
- A mock-documentary telling the tale of the investigation of the disappearance of the Canadian national symbol, the beaver.
- Lonely, eccentric school girl, Dorothy, begins to attract the attention of various creatures that attack her homework. While her teachers accept the excuses of her classmates, Dorothy is repeatedly sent to the school counselor.
- An animated study of insanity in a lunatic asylum following an aptitude test for a placement service.
- After his house is invaded by a dog, an anthropomorphic cat has to call an emergency number to get the dog out.
- An unconventional version of The Christmas Carol. In this one, Ebenezer Stooge runs a power company, and he's actually nice to his employee, Bob Scratchet. But he's also incredibly wasteful of all kinds of energy. Eb goes home on Christmas Eve and turns in, leaving the lights on but when he closes the electric drapes on his bed, the lights go out, and the ghosts visit. Jacob Morelights enters, chained to a giant toaster as penance for his wasteful ways. Energy past (a candle) shows grandpa's turnip farm, bristling with oil wells. Energy present shows off his various bits of profligacy. Energy future shows a dark, empty city, with no more fossil fuel. On the hill, the cemetery, where Stooge is in deep freeze, but the power goes out and he won't be able to be thawed out. He changes: when he visits the Scratchets, instead of the usual energy-wasting presents, he brings some rather excessively frugal gifts, like a porcupine-fur coat for Bob and turkey flavored gruel.
- The elegant Lady F. runs through the basics of table manners, while her guests illustrate the do's and don'ts.
- A weary personnel manager does a job interview with a cartoon dog applicant.
- A rabbit has to use his skills when a farmer's carrots begin to disappear - and starts to become a cult figure in the process.
- A small Welsh town is torn apart by corruption.
- A lonely woodcarver longs for a son, so he builds a wooden puppet and names it Spinnolio (sound familiar yet?). But the cricket appears on the windowsill and is eaten by the cat, and Spinnolio comes alive only in the mind of the crazy old man. Spinnolio is dragged to class by the kids, where he does great for deportment, but rotten on academics; he gets a job in the complaint/return department of a large store, where he gets promoted to management, in part because of his great listening skills.
- A widow, Mary Benjamin, a supervising nurse at Grant Memorial Hospital in New York City, returns to work after her husband dies and learns to live as a single woman again.
- Billionaire business man Noel Noel is long on cash but short on social graces; so when he finds himself falling for the fairy Beatrice, he mistakenly thinks he can buy her love with material gifts. It takes a little girl names Zooey, her dog Snooze, and a blue-eyed reindeer to help Noel Noel learn the true meaning of love.
- Four members of the infamous Hennessey clan are acquitted of the shooting of two policemen in a bungled bank heist. Melbourne is shocked as brothers Mal and Steve, along with brother-in-law Darren Mack and friend Ken Hardy, walk free.
- A scientist has invented a teleportation device, but when an observer learns the details of how it works, she is left with a moral dilemma and a meditation on the nature of self and morals.
- An ugly man rises to power with the benefit of a handsome looking lump on his head.
- Created in 1939, the National Film Board of Canada has produced and distributed literally thousands of films by and about Canadians, including hundreds of animated shorts. But despite the fact that these innovative cartoons received several Oscar wins and nominations, most were little-seen by Canada's neighbors to the south.
- A short illustrating a traditional Canadian folk song about a woman's admiration for the agility for her boyfriend, the log driver.
- A young boy suspects his dad might be working undercover for MI6.
- Stingers reveals the shadowy and ambiguous world of undercover cops - people with covert lives and constantly changing identities. They are the police who defeat crime from within the criminal world.
- A hapless husband neglects to clear the icy walk, which leads to the mailman slipping and breaking his neck. A comedy of errors results from his attempts to hide the body.
- Tony is a super-confident 17-year-old smart-arse with a good-looking girl on his arm and the ability to charm most of the other females he encounters. He launches a scheme to help his friend Sid lose his virginity before his birthday while making a little profit on the side, but his plan quickly unravels, leaving the friends with a dilemma that requires an urgent solution.
- The series primarily focuses on the daily lives of Victorian police officers working at a police station in the fictional small town of Mount Thomas.
- Da Vinci is commissioned by the Medicis to create an Easter spectacle in Florence. Later, he's hired to build war machines, and meets a mysterious Turk.
- A pesky yellow cat becomes the bane of Mr. Johnson's life as it constantly outsmarts his increasingly desperate attempts to get rid of it.
- Follows Leonardo Da Vinci during his early days in Florence, as a young artist, inventor and dreamer, trying to change the future.
- The story of a group of British teens who are trying to grow up and find love and happiness despite questionable parenting and teachers who would rather be friends (and lovers) than authority figures.
- A man has a difficult time using the advanced automated services at a modern computerized bank.
- A minor drug case in the County Court puts the murder charge against Mal Hennessey in jeopardy when an inexperienced barrister paints a picture of the late Steve Hennessey as a "Mr. Big" of the drug trade.
- As the Unit slowly gains information to bring about the downfall of a powerful crime family, an unexpected development threatens their progress, and forces Church to remain undercover.
- Mary's friend is admitted to the hospital after a suicide attempt and then insinuates she once had an affair with Mary's late husband.