Paddle to the Sea (1966)

Directed by

Bill Mason

Genre

children's film

Country

Canada

Runtime

28 min

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 17 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A hand-carved toy canoe with a small Indian figure travels from Lake Superior through rivers and lakes toward the sea. The film shows the toy's journey as it passes through different landscapes and encounters various people and obstacles along the way.

gentlepeacefulcontemplativeslow-pacedwhimsicalpensivenostalgicobservational

What happens

Paddle to the Sea (French: Vogue-à-la-mer) is a 1966 National Film Board of Canada short live-action film directed, shot and edited by Bill Mason. It is based on the 1941 children's book Paddle-to-the-Sea by American author and illustrator Holling C. Holling, and follows the adventures of a child's hand-carved toy Indian in a canoe as it makes its way from Lake Superior to the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, through Canada's waterways. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film at the 40th Academy Awards. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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