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'''Canada Vignettes''' are a series of short films by the [[National Film Board of Canada]] (NFB), some of which aired on [[CBC Television]] and other Canadian broadcasters as [[interstitial program]]s. The vignettes became popular because of their cultural depiction of Canada, and because they represented its changing state, such as the vignette ''Faces'' which was made to represent the increasing cultural and ethnic diversity of Canada.<ref name="Ohayon Nov 2011">{{cite web|last=Ohayon|first=Albert|title=Canada Vignettes: Essential Canadiana, eh!|url=http://blog.nfb.ca/2011/11/16/canada-vignettes-essential-canadiana-eh/|work=NFB blog|date=16 November 2011|publisher=[[National Film Board of Canada]]|access-date=16 November 2011}}</ref> ''[[The Log Driver's Waltz]]'' directed by [[John Weldon (animator)|John Weldon]] set to the recording of the song by [[Kate & Anna McGarrigle]] with, and as part of, The [[Mountain City Four]] is one of the most-requested items contained in the collection by the [[National Film Board of Canada]].<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/episode-410-women-s-rage-a-star-is-born-amazon-ups-its-minimum-wage-sharon-and-bram-and-more-1.4851227/why-canadians-are-still-celebrating-the-log-driver-s-waltz-more-than-half-a-century-after-it-was-written-1.4851233| title = Why Canadians are still celebrating The Log Driver's Waltz, more than half a century after it was written {{!}} CBC Radio}} </ref> A similar series was later produced in the 1990s, however the name was changed to [[Heritage Minutes]].

==Conception==
The idea for ''Canada Vignettes'' began in early 1977, when CBC's [[Children's television series|children's programming]] department at the CBC approached the NFB about producing short films, five minutes in length or less, to use as interstitial programming. When [[Secretary of State for Canada]] [[John Roberts (Canadian politician)|John Roberts]] announced in the fall of 1977 that $13 million would be given to federal cultural agencies to help promote national unity, the NFB was allocated $2 million to produce films for broadcast on the CBC, similar to [[CBS]]'s ''[[Bicentennial Minutes]]'' in the United States, the previous year. The [[Ici Radio-Canada Télé|French-language service of the CBC]] also agreed to broadcast the series.<ref name="Ohayon Nov 2011"/>

==Production==
Eighty filmmakers from across the country worked on the project over a three-year period. Many of the films were [[animation]] vignettes offering amusing portrayals of [[Canadian history]], while others were produced from excerpts of NFB documentaries. The NFB decided that no [[film credits]] would be included, only a title.<ref name="Ohayon Nov 2011"/>

==Broadcast==
The CBC's children's department subsequently informed the NFB that it could not show films longer than two minutes as their needs had changed in the time that it took to produce the series. A quarter of the vignettes were more than two minutes long. As a solution, the CBC main network agreed to make the longer and shorter films available to their [[network affiliate]]s. ''Canada Vignettes'' were shown on both in [[prime time]] and during children's programming slots. The most popular film in the series to air on Canadian television was ''Canada Vignettes: Faces'', an animated short that depicted the faces of Canada, including that of then Prime Minister [[Pierre Elliot Trudeau]]. Other [[Canadian television networks]] to broadcast the films included [[CTV Television Network|CTV]], [[Global Television Network|Global]], [[TVOntario]], and [[TVA (Canada)|TVA]]. The series was also sold to international foreign broadcasters in such countries as [[Turkey]], Italy, [[Algeria]], Norway and the United Kingdom.<ref name="Ohayon Nov 2011"/>

==List of Vignettes==

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|Title | Year | Duration | Notes<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tvarchive.ca/database/19454/canada_vignettes/episode_guide/|title=Episode Guide for Canada Vignettes|website=www.tvarchive.ca}}</ref><ref name=NFB_Images>{{cite web|url=https://www.nfb.ca/subjects/canada-images-of-a-country/vignettes/ |title=Canada—Images of a Country |publisher=[[National Film Board of Canada]] |access-date=15 Jun 2019}}</ref><ref name=NFB_Vignettes>{{cite web|url=https://www.nfb.ca/channels/canada-vignettes/ |title=Canada Vignettes |publisher=[[National Film Board of Canada]] |access-date=15 Jun 2019}}</ref><ref name=NFB_2013>{{cite web|url=http://onf-nfb.gc.ca/en/our-collection/series/?ids=171768&nom=Canada%20Vignettes |title=Canada Vignettes |publisher=[[National Film Board of Canada]] |date=22 Oct 2012 |access-date=15 Jun 2019}}</ref>

|Acadian Quadrille | 1978 | 4:00 | director: Colette Blanchard; subject: the traditional [[Acadians|Acadian]] dance, the [[quadrille]]

|Agnes Campbell MacPhail | 1980 | 2:05 | director: Margaret Wescott; subject: [[Agnes Macphail]], Canada’s first female [[Member of Parliament|MP]]

|Alouette | 1979 | 0:30 | director: Michèle Pauzé; subject: animation set to the French-Canadian song “[[Alouette (song)|Alouette]]”

|Angel of Death | 1980 | 2:00 | director: Ron Webber; subject: ''Toronto Daily Star''’s 1912 fly-swatting contest

|Arctic Mission | 1980 | 1:00 | director: Joan Henson

|Arctic Seascape | 1980 | 1:30 | director: Joan Henson

|Ballet Master, The | 1978 | 3:00 | directors: Rosemarie Shapley, Judith Potterton

|Bells and Brass | 1978 | 3:00 | director: Rick Butler

|Bill Miner | 1978 | 1:00 | director: Peter Jones

|Bill Reid | 1979 | 2:00 | director: Jack Long; subject: [[Haida people|Haida]] artist [[Bill Reid]]

|Birth | 1980 | 1:00 | director: Margaret Pettigrew

|Blacksmith Shop, The | 1979 | 1:00 | directors: Rita Roy, Joe MacDonald

|Bluenose 1921–1946 | 1979 | 2:05 | director: Richard Todd; subject: the schooner ''[[Bluenose]]''

|Bluenose II July 24, 1963 | 1979 | 3:07 | director: Richard Todd; subject: the schooner ''[[Bluenose II]]''

|Breadmakers | 1980 | 1:30 | director: [[Tony Ianzelo]]

|Bridge for the Dempster | 1980 | 2:00 | director: Kenneth McCready, Joan Henson; subject: construction of [[Dempster Highway]] by the Canadian Armed Forces

|Bridging the Gap | 1981 | 1:00 | director: M. Marilyn Cherenko; subject: allegory about the necessity of [[community integration|societal integration]] of people with disabilities

|[[Calliope (music)|Calliope]] | 1980 | 2:00 | director: [[Tony Ianzelo]]

|Canada's [[Snowbirds]] | 1980 | 1:30 | director: Joan Henson

|[[James Cook|Captain Cook]] | 1978 | 1:00 | director: Barry Helmer

|Catapult Canada | 1985 | 1:09 | director: Bill Maylone

|Celebration | 1981 | 1:00 | director: [[Tony Ianzelo]]

|Countdown | 1981 | 1:00 | director: Veronika Soul; subject: [[filmmaking]] techniques and processes

|[[Cree]] Conical Lodge | 1980 | 2:00 | director: Joe MacDonald

|[[Cree]] Hunters | 1979 | 1:00 | director: [[Tony Ianzelo]]

|Crossing Guards | 1978 | 4:10 | director: Kris Paterson

|Dance | 1979 | 2:00 | director: Lise-Hélène Larin

|Dancing Dolls | 1980 | 1:30 | director: Dorothy Courtois

|December Lights | 1979 | 3:00 | director: Raymond Gauthier; subject: a version of a traditional [[Franco-Manitoban]] Christmas tale

|Delta Plane | 1979 | 1:30 | directors: Hubert Neault, Nicole Robert

|Dentist, The | 1978 | 5:00 | director: [[Wolf Koenig]]

|Don Messer—His Land and His Music—[[Charlie Chamberlain]] 1911–1972 Pt. 1 | 1979 | 2:00 | director: Martin Defalco

|Don Messer—His Land and His Music—[[Charlie Chamberlain]] 1911–1972 Pt. 2 | 1979 | 1:00 | director: Martin Defalco

|Don Messer—His Land and His Music—[[Charlie Chamberlain]] 1911–1972, [[Marg Osburne]] 1927–1977 | 1979 | 2:00 | director: Martin Defalco

|Don Messer—His Land and His Music—[[Don Messer]] 1910–1973 | 1979 | 1:00 | director: Martin Defalco

|Don Messer—His Land and His Music—[[Marg Osburne]] 1927–1977 Pt. 1 | 1979 | 2:00 | director: Martin Defalco

|Don Messer—His Land and His Music—[[Marg Osburne]] 1927–1977 Pt. 2 | 1979 | 2:00 | director: Martin Defalco

|Easter Eggs | 1978 | 3:00 | director: Yurij Luhovy; subject: [[pysanka|pysanky]], traditional Ukrainian decorated eggs

|Egg, The | 1979 | 1:00 | directors: Robert Bélisle, [[Jean-François Pouliot]]

|[[Emergency telephone number|Emergency Numbers]] | 1984 | 2:00 | director: [[John Weldon (animator)|John Weldon]]

|Erik Davidson—Mechanic | 1979 | 3:03 | director: Richard Todd

|Faces | 1978 |1:00 |director: Paul Bochner

|Fashion Designer | 1977 | 2:00 | directors: Rosemarie Shapley, Judith Potterton

|[[Flin Flon]] | 1978 | 3:00 | director: Tina Horne

|[[Prince of Wales Fort|Fort Prince of Wales]] | 1978 | 1:00 | director: Brad Caslor

|From Cobalt to [[Casa Loma]] | 1978 | 2:00 | director: Kenneth McCready

|From Flax to Linen | 1978 | 2:00 | director: Joe MacDonald

|Full Circle | 1979 | 4:00 | director: Rudi Wrench

|Ham, The | 1978 | 4:00 | director: Ronald Blumer

|Headdress | 1979 | 1:30 |

|Helen Law | 1979 | 3:00 | director: [[Jennifer Hodge de Silva|Jennifer Hodge]]

|History for Tomorrow | 1980 | 1:00 | director: Joan Henson

|Holidays | 1978 | 1:03 | director: [[Blake (film)|Blake James]]

|Home of the Beaver | 1978 | 3:00 | director: Ron Webber

|Homestead | 1980 | 1:00 | director: Margaret Pettigrew

|Horse, The | 1978 | 1:00 | director: [[Michael Mills (Canadian producer)|Michael Mills]]

|Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'Neary: An Irish Folktale | 1978 | 5:00 | director: Eva Szasz

|Ice | 1982 | 1:00 | director: Robert Doucet

|[[Montreal Winter Carnivals|Ice Carnival Montreal 1885]]—Canadian Bounce | 1986 | 2:00 | director: Meilan Lam

|[[Montreal Winter Carnivals|Ice Carnival Montreal 1885]]—Souvenir Programme | 1986 | 2:02 | director: Meilan Lam

|[[Montreal Winter Carnivals|Ice Carnival Montreal 1885]]—Storming the Ice Palace | 1986 | 1:58 | director: Meilan Lam

|Indian Pipe | 1979 | 1:00 |

|Instant French | 1979 | 1:00 | director: André Leduc

|Inuit Pipe | 1979 | 1:30 |

|June in [[Puvirnituq|Povungnituk]]—Quebec Arctic | 1980 | {{duration|m=1|s=0}} | director: Alanis Obomsawin

|[[Klondike Gold Rush|Klondike Gold]] | 1980 | 1:00 | director: George Geertsen

|Lady Frances Simpson | 1978 | 1:00 |director: [[Christopher Hinton (animator)|Christopher Hinton]]

|[[Beringia|Land Bridge]] | 1978 | 1:00 | director: George Geertsen

|Land of the Maple Leaf | 1978 | 3:00 | director: Ron Webber

|[[The Log Driver's Waltz|Log Driver's Waltz]] | 1979 | 3:17 | director: [[John Weldon (animator)|John Weldon]]

|Logger | 1978 | 1:00 | director: Al Sens

|Love on Wheels | 1979 | 4:00 | directors: Ben Low, Ian Rankin

|Ma chère Albertine | 1979 | 5:00 | director: Suzanne Oliver

|Maple Leaf, The | 1978 | 1:00 | director: Paul Bochner

|Marine Biologist | 1979 | 3:00 | director: William Pettigrew

|[[The Maritimes|Maritimes]] Dig | 1980 | 3:00 | director: Dennis Sawyer

|McIntosh | 1979 | 1:30 | director: Tina Horne

|Melvin Arbuckle, Famous Canadian | 1980 | 5:00 | director: Eva Szasz

|[[The Men of the Deeps|Men of the Deeps]], Cape Breton | 1978 | 2:00 | director: Sandra Dudley

|Mer enligne nos terres, La | 1979 | 3:00 | director: Phil Comeau; subject: [[Acadians|Acadian]] [[Nova Scotia]]ns

|[[Métis]] Coat | 1979 | 1:00 |

|Moccasins | 1979 | 1:00 |

|Move, The | 1985 | 5:00 | director: Larry Bauman

|Music Makers, The | 1979 | 2:02 | director: Malca Gillson

|Mussel Mud | 1985 | 1:38 | director: Aileen Brophy

|[[Newfoundland]] | 1978 | 1:00 | director: George Geertsen

|News Canada | 1978 | 3:00 | director: [[Yossi Abulafia]] credited as Yossi Abolafia

|Nigogeux, Les | 1978 | 5:00 | director: Robert Haché

|Northern Seasons | 1980 | 1:00 | directors: Kenneth McCready, Joan Henson

|Novelist, The | 1978 | 5:00 | director: Andy Thomson

|Onions and Garlic: A Hebrew Fable | 1978 | 4:02 | director: Eva Szasz

|Our Daily Bread | 1979 | 3:00 | director: Joe MacDonald, Rita Roy

|Performer, The | 1978 |3:00 | director: [[Norma Bailey]]. First Jury Prize for Short film at the [[1980 Cannes Film Festival]]

|Photographers, The | 1978 | 4:00 | directors: Rosemarie Shapley, Judith Potterton

|Physiotherapist | 1977 | 3:00 | directors: Rosemarie Shapley, Judith Potterton

|[[Port Royal]] | 1978 | 1:00 | director: Robert Doucet

|[[Canadian Prairies|Prairie]] Promise | 1980 | 1:00 | director: Margaret Pettigrew

|Prehistoric Artifacts, New Brunswick | 1980 | 2:00 | director: Dennis Sawyer

|Riverdale Lion | 1979 | 1:00 | director: David Verrall

|Roulamour | 1979 | 4:00 | directors: Ben Low, Ian Rankin

|Seigneury, The | 1978 | 3:00 | director: Janice Brown

|Skier | 1978 | 2:00 |

|Sodbusters | 1978 | 1:00 | director: [[Wolf Koenig]]

|Spence's Republic | 1978 | 1:00 | director: Brad Caslor

|St. Laurent Pilgrimage | 1985 | 2:00 | director: Dan J. McCrimmon

|Stunt Family | 1978 | 3:00 | director: Lois Siegel

|Thirties, The | 1978 | 1:03 | director: [[Blake (film)|Blake James]]

|[[Toronto]] | 1978 | 1:00 | director: Carlos Marchiori

|[[Trading Post]] | 1978 | 1:00 | director: [[Wolf Koenig]]

|Trees | 1978 | 1:00 | director: Robert Doucet

|Two Friends | 1979 | 3:00 | director: Richard Todd

|Under the Pole | 1980 | 1:00 | director: Joan Henson

|[[Skidegate|Unity Pole]] | 1979 | 2:00 | director: Jack Long

|Veteran, The | 1978 | 4:00 | director: Ronald Blumer

|Veterinarian | 1977 | 3:00 | directors: Rosemarie Shapley, Judith Potterton

|Vignettes from Labrador North | 1979 | 4:00 | director: Roger Hart

|Violin Maker, The | 1978 | 5:00 | directors: Rosemarie Shapley, Judith Potterton

|Visitor, The | 1979 | 1:00 |

|Vote, The | 1980 | 1:00 | director: Margaret Pettigrew

|[[Voyageurs]] | 1978 | 1:00 | director: [[Wolf Koenig]]

|[[Wild Rice]] Harvest [[Kenora]] | 1979 | {{duration|m=1|s=0}} | director: Alanis Obomsawin

|Winter—Dressing Up | 1979 | 1:00 | director: [[Gerald Potterton]]

|Winter—Starting the Car | 1979 | 2:00 | director: [[Gerald Potterton]]

|Wool Spinner, The | 1979 | 2:00 | directors: Rita Roy, Joe MacDonald

|[[Woolly Mammoth]] | 1979 | 1:00 | director: Bill Maylone; stop-motion animation

|Wop May | 1979 | 5:00 | director: [[Blake (film)|Blake James]]; subject: aviator [[Wop May]]
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==See also==
{{Portal|History|Canada|Television}}
* [[O Canada (TV series)|''O Canada'']] (Cartoon Network series that featured some of the animated ''Canada Vignettes'' shorts)
*''[[Canada's Story]]''
* [[Events of National Historic Significance (Canada)|Events of National Historic Significance]]
* ''[[Heritage Minutes]]''
* ''[[Hinterland Who's Who]]''
* [[National Historic Sites of Canada]]
* [[Persons of National Historic Significance]]
* ''[[The Greatest Canadian]]''

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[https://www.nfb.ca/subjects/canada---images-of-a-country/vignettes Canada - Images of a Country, Vignettes] at the [[National Film Board of Canada]]
*[http://onf-nfb.gc.ca/en/our-collection/series/?ids=171768&nom=Canada%20Vignettes Canada Vignettes] listing at National Film Board of Canada
* [http://www.bcdb.com/cartoons/Other_Studios/N/National_Film_Board_of_Canada/Canada_Vignettes/index.html Canada Vignettes], [[The Big Cartoon Database]]
* [http://www.tvarchive.ca/database/19454/canada_vignettes/episode_guide/ Episode Guide]

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[[Category:Short film series]]
[[Category:Interstitial television shows]]
[[Category:CBC Television original programming]]
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