Paddle to the Sea

[modustollens]

Paddle to the Sea is a book made into a short film in '66 by Bill Mason of the National Film Board of Canada. Its a great little video - about 28 minutes; anyone who likes to use a canoe will enjoy this (or indeed anything Bill Mason did about the canoe).

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The Canadian National Film Board page for the short is here:

http://www.nfb.ca/collection/films/fiche/?id=10584

The description from the NFB site:

"For all children and those adults for whom the romance of journeying is still strong. This great NFB children's classic is adapted from a story by Holling C. Holling. During the long winter night, an Indian boy sets out to carve a man and a canoe. He calls the man "Paddle to the Sea." The boy sets the carving down on a frozen stream to await the coming of spring. The film charts the adventures that befall the canoe on its long odyssey from Lake Superior to the sea. This delightful story is photographed with great patience and an eye for the beauty of living things, offering vivid impressions of Canada's varied landscape and waterways."

The IMDB info page is here:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060810/

The short is available for direct download in three 100mb compressed .rar files from rapidshare (just select 'free' - you don't have to pay to get the files though there are lots of ads for buying upload/download credits); download all three to the same folder then extract.

Part One:
http://rapidshare.com/files/116179457/Paddle.To.The.Sea.1966.DVDRip.XviD-WRD.part1.rar.html

Part Two:
http://rapidshare.com/files/116193440/Paddle.To.The.Sea.1966.DVDRip.XviD-WRD.part2.rar.html

Part Three:
http://rapidshare.com/files/116199100/Paddle.To.The.Sea.1966.DVDRip.XviD-WRD.part3.rar.html

A torrent version can be found here:
http://thepiratebay.org/tor/4173432/Paddle.To.The.Sea.1966.DVDRip.XviD-WRD

PM me if you have a problem and I'll try to help.

Enjoy
MT

p.s. no 'gansta rap' included.

[walrus]

Thanks for sharing, Modustollens.

[modustollens]

I am glad you liked it. Someone has also posted the whole thing on you-tube in three parts; here is part one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfQuTBmW4RU

I remember seeing this in the school gym when in kindergarden.

[jack]

Sounds good. When I figger out how to
watch movies on computers I'll have a
go.

Jack

[Andy_in_NH]

I remember watching this in grade school!

What a great story!

[modustollens]

I am glad you watched and liked and remembered it.
I imagine they had to have a few dozen of those little carvings from the movie.

I forgot that Detroit harbour and the 4th of July make a cameo; though I think the part with frog and the pike must have taken eons to catch on film.


Jack, just click here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfQuTBmW4RU) and it should start to play right away; there are others ways to get the movie, but the you-tube way is the easiest...

MT

[Wanderlustr]

Good stuff! Thanks.
I thought I had seen all Bill Mason's films.

[Exploriment]

I <span style="color: #FF0000">LOVE</span> Paddle to the Sea!

I just bought a DVD copy from the National Film Board of Canada recently. Mainly to show it to my 5 year old nephew, but it's been lent to a bunch of other friends as well. I was worried that he would find it a bit dull, what with no explosions or special effects, but he found it pretty magical. I guess a good story well told trumps all the CGFX.

Paddle to the Sea (http://www.nfb.ca/collection/films/fiche/?id=10584)

I saw it at school shortly after moving to Canada, and did it ever make an impression on me. It instilled a love of canoeing in me at that young age that gets stronger with each year.

My buddy Jay and I had a discussion while paddling around up north a few weeks ago about the idea of doing a modern version. With miniature cameras and GPS tracking, it would be neat to set it out and see what it sees and where it actually goes. The original was of course just filmed for short sections and pulled out of the water, but it would be neat to see how far P.t.t.S. could actually go.

But sadly if they were to re-do it today, greasy movie exec's would undoubtedly turn it into a romantic comedy starring Jessica Simpson and George Clooney and load it up with special effects. "What?! Things don't blow up?! Well nobody'll go see it then. We gotta have some alien attack cruisers and a chase sequence or something!"
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