CANADA VIGNETTES: LOG DRIVER'S WALTZ | Full Animated Film | National Film Board of Canada
Why Hacker News recommends it
It comes up as a beloved example of NFB animation and state-funded Canadian cultural work.
What it is
An animated National Film Board of Canada short about a young woman who picks a log driver as her partner because his work makes him a great dancer. It is set to Wade Hemsworth's folk song sung by Kate and Anna McGarrigle.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2021 to 2023.
What Hacker News said
Recommends fanatic2pope · 2023-09 · on “National Film Board of Canada”
The one that immediately comes to mind for me is the Log Driver's Waltz. [this video] Wade Hemsworth was a national treasure. So many great folk songs. [LINK]
Cites motohagiography · 2021-06 · on “America’s weirdest guidebooks were funded by the government”
These were strange, and when you look at them now, they were part of this effort in the 60's onward to create a national "Canadian" culture and identity using little factoids like those in Hinterland Who's Who as a common understanding. The logrider's waltz is another one, [this video] , but you have to imagine what weird places the CBC and TV Ontario would have had to have been in the 50's and 60's, where it was a mix of turtlenecked beatnicks, remittence men, old family connected bureaucrats, with influential infiltrators from french separatist and foreign communist movements, Camp X instructors, and a bunch of political idealists spending relatively unlimited public money on inventing a new na
Cites RichardCA · 2022-12 · on “Moog Dancers Prove That TV Was a Lot More Adventurous in the 70s”
For me personally, I spent most of the 70's bored to death in school, but I got to come home and watch shows like "International Animation Festival" on Channel 13 (PBS if you grew up in the NYC area). They also had the first run of Monty Python's Flying Circus in the US, which was one of the few things me and my dad enjoyed together. But the bulk the animation shown on PBS came from the NFB - The National Film Board of Canada, which provided the retro aestheics that were later adopted by Boards of Canada. [this video]