Every Dog's Guide to Complete Home Safety (1986)
- Country
- Canada
- Rating
- 7.0 of 10 from 3 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A dog named Wally tries to keep his human family safe as they carelessly prepare for a dinner party. The short film shows different household dangers through comedic situations.
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What happens
Every Dog's Guide to Complete Home Safety is a Canadian animated short film, directed by Les Drew for the National Film Board of Canada and released in 1986. The film's central character is Wally (Paul Brown), a dog who is frantically trying to protect his new family from their own careless actions as they prepare for a dinner party. The film's voice cast also includes Luba Goy as Honey, Harvey Atkin as Bernard and Henry Beckman as The Boss. It received a Genie Award nomination for Best Animated Short Film at the 8th Genie Awards in 1987. Drew released a sequel film, Every Dog's Guide to the Playground, in 1991. Both films were broadcast in the United States on Cartoon Network's O Canada anthology series of NFB animated shorts, and were packaged together in 1996 for home video release as The Blue Dog Safety Video. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Mixed Master- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.