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The Boy Who Saw the Iceberg - DVD ONF/NFB


Catalogue Number:  NFB523300
Producer:  National Film Board Of Canada
Producers:  Marcy Page, David Verrall
Directors:  Paul Driessen
Producing Agencies:  National Film Board of Canada (Montreal), Office national du film du Canada (Montreal)
Subject:  Animation, Canadian Social Studies, Children's Stories, Education, Family Studies/Home Economics, French, Language Arts, Social Studies, Tech/Voc
Grade Level:  9 - 12
Country Of Origin:  Canada
Copyright Year:  2000
Running Time:  9:01


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A playful and poignant animated short about a boy with an over-active imagination, The Boy Who Saw the Iceberg presents two worlds -reality and fantasy. Paul Driessen's multi-layered split-screen approach revels in the shifting boundaries between these two realms. In this cautionary tale, the young protagonist, bored with his lot, imagines a diabolic and dangerous life of adventure. But when our would-be hero, accustomed to eluding mobsters and monsters in his daydreams, finally finds himself facing a real-life drama, he can't believe his eyes. It's even harder for him to convince anyone else of what he's seen - an iceberg! Suddenly, the mundane life that he always wanted to escape, is what he wishes to recapture. Film without words.


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