Paddle to the Sea

Paddle to the Sea
Directed byBill Mason
Screenplay byBill Mason
Based onPaddle-to-the-Sea
by Holling C. Holling
Produced byJulian Biggs
StarringKyle Apatagen[1]
Narrated byStanley Jackson
CinematographyBill Mason
Music byLouis Applebaum
Production
company
Distributed byNational Film Board of Canada
Release date
  • 1966 (1966)
Running time
27 min 59 s
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish
Budget$70,913[2]

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.[3][4][5]

  1. ^ Dean, Misao (2013). Inheriting a Canoe Paddle: The Canoe in Discourses of English-Canadian Nationalism. University of Toronto Press. p. 136. ISBN 978-1442612877.
  2. ^ Evans 1991, p. 156.
  3. ^ Wyndham Wise, ed. (2001-09-08). "Paddle to the Sea". Take One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film. University of Toronto Press. p. 159. ISBN 978-0802083982.
  4. ^ "Paddle to the Sea". Canadian Film Encyclopedia. Toronto International Film Festival. Archived from the original on 2012-11-03.
  5. ^ Spears, Tom (2017-01-28). "Renowned Canadian film Paddle to the Sea paddles on, 50 years later". Ottawa Citizen. Retrieved 2017-01-30.