Friday, January 30, 2009

National Film Board of Canada - Now Online

When I was young my mother would take me to the library on the weekend where we could watch films that played for free. The National Film Board of Canada (Wikipedia) is a publicly funded film producer and distributor, and a part of our cultural heritage.

They have just recently made their archives available online - This is more than 700 films, many are excellent. Of course many are bad, and many more just bizarre.

There's one in particular that I have vivid memories of, but so far haven't found on the archive: A person receives a videotape in the mail with a note from a friend recommending that he watch it. But the video tape eats him, and writes a note to another friend, and mails itself, etc. I think it gave me nightmares for three years. If I find it I will post a link, once I'm done hiding under my bed.

-iRob

2 comments:

Drhaggis said...

Looks like it was an HBO short.
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=S-Qeee8D2Ro

Drhaggis said...

To add: The short is called "Recorded Live" and was a school project for S.S. Wilson, the guy who wrote Short Circuit, Tremors and Wild Wild West.