National film board of Canada

branie

Remember their cartoons that RTE would show every so often during the 80s?

chakotha

And 10-15 minute shorts - not necessarily cartoons. They were a bit gritty or arty for my childish sensibilities. "Can we not have looney tunes."

BlaasForRafa

branie wrote: »

Remember their cartoons that RTE would show every so often during the 80s?

must look them up on youtube because honestly I can't remember them at all. I do remember the godawful Czech and Yugoslav ones that got shown, that'd be enough to put you off socialism on its own.

roanoke

I don't remember the NFB, but just reading up on them I see they were responsible for a short that I liked and reckon everyone should check out

http://www.nfb.ca/film/neighbours_voisins/

It's weird that it's over 60 years old as the whole look/feel of it seems oddly contemporary.

gobnaitolunacy

BlaasForRafa wrote: »

must look them up on youtube because honestly I can't remember them at all. I do remember the godawful Czech and Yugoslav ones that got shown, that'd be enough to put you off socialism on its own.

Reminded me of this!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jR7m-4Vc3MU

Remember the Canadian ones and some French(?) ones that were educational and mildly entertaining.

darkdubh

I'm not sure if this is Canadian but I remember seeing it shown on RTE in the 80's as a filler between programmes and it seems to match what the OP is talking about.

http://youtu.be/q_VTdhgrpFU

darkdubh

There's quite a lot of NFBOC shorts on youtube.The first one on here about fire was shown on RTE when I was young,it's very funny cracked me up laughing seeing it again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht6lRb8y_AQ&feature=share&list=PLCE8DB48C116348BA

LiamMc

With the obvious sponsorship of the Nat. Film Board of Canada I wondered why Ireland didn't produce films live action and animated just like the parochial Canadiens.

One film that I seen a few times was The Sweater. Watching it again I'm reminded of a few images since then incld. Male lover distracted by sports on radio(similar to a Sky sports advert in this century). Also some similar images to Graham Knuttell.

stabeek

This thread might be more contemporary (and less retro) than you'd imagine on first reading.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boards_of_canada
are two Scottish brothers that that make pretty top notch electronic sound as well as wondeful album titles:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_Has_the_Right_to_Children

This came up on Maconie's BBC Radio 6 music last week, and it's so cool to get a reminder of what lies behind the name here ....


KONIEC!

NeverGetBanned

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-o9dYwro_Q

Frostine

I remember those! Although I'm Canadian and was forced to watch them(we had 3 channels, no cable, sigh:(). I must apologize on behalf of Canada for making you watch the crappy one's as children. Some of them were ok, but some were just plain weird!

LiamMc

Frostine wrote: »

I remember those! Although I'm Canadian and was forced to watch them(we had 3 channels, no cable, sigh:(). I must apologize on behalf of Canada for making you watch the crappy one's as children. Some of them were ok, but some were just plain weird!

so kay, I over most of it now, Cheers. How 'buot you?

Frostine

LiamMc wrote: »

so kay, I over most of it now, Cheers. How 'buot you?

Well, I survived.I was so glad when we finally had cable and could watch American cartoons!!
This one really sticks in my head, I used to hum it all day as a kid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upsZZ2s3xv8

darkdubh

Liked the logo that used to appear at the start of their shorts. I have a soft spot for these unusual animated shorts that RTE used to show as schedule fillers in the 80's.