Hello, my name is Justin de Kluo.

Hello, my name is Justin the Kluo, and I'm here today with

Will Sloan.

And you're listening to the Important Cinema

Important, and you're listening to the important cinema club.

And today, we're going to be talking about the National Film Board of Canada. I don't have to do this bilingual thing. No, you do not. Because I dropped French after grade 10. Did you? Could you still, like, understand and speak a little bit of it? Probably a little bit. Bonjour, sa va. Ulla Bibliotech. Eskichipur, L.A.O. Twilette. So the National Film Board of Canada. Telefrase.

Telepharce.

Say monique.

Say a crav.

And then the Skelet.

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All right.

So, the National Film Board of Canada is probably known to most people who grew up in our great nation as the thing that teachers would put on when they didn't want to teach

a class.

Like, they'd get that tape that would have the clear plastic with the little green logo

and just pop something in.

And we usually either watch a documentary or an animated film.

Like I remember seeing the Log Riders Waltz like a million times in school, which is just

a little three-minute animated song that was made in 1979 by John Weldon. And I don't know why it got so much distribution, but it did. And he goes purling down and down the white water. That's how the log driver turns to step lightlyly. Beautiful. I watched it recently. Holds up. Oh, it's great. All their cartoons are great.

Or like something like the cat came back. The cat came back. The cat came back is like seriously

up there with one froggy evening in terms of perfect cartoons. And I don't understand why

there was such a widespread of this. Maybe they were doing their job very well in the 90s. I remember

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