On this latest's trip to the National Film Board's Archive, we pay tribute to a stalwart of the NFB's Animation Department since its inception whose contributions to Canadian cinema are too varied to list out. Veteran animator, producer, and director Robert Verrall sadly passed away on January 17th, 2025 and left a cinematic legacy few can measure up to. For this occasional spotlight series, we took a look at some of his earliest credited work to hopefully impart how significant a figure he was in his lifetime.

Films covered for the podcast are Three Blind Mice (1945) and The Romance of Transportation in Canada (1952). Directed by George Dunning and Colin Low respectively.

Links: https://collection.nfb.ca/film/three_blind_mice

https://www.nfb.ca/film/romance_of_transportation_canada/

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