Happy Life Day, Everyone! And what better way to celebrate Life Day than with a new Non-Bluth episode talking about Nelvana, the studio responsible for underground Sci-Fi animation such as A Cosmic Christmas, Romie-0 and Julie-8, Rock & Rule, Intergalactic Thanksgiving, Star Wars: Droids, Star Wars: Ewoks, and yes, even the animated segment from The Star Wars Holiday Special. Joining us is special guest Avery, who, having a unique history with the studio, kindly shares his experiences of visiting Nelvana in its earlier days. We also talk at length about the various shows that Avery and ourselves grew up with from this extremely unique Canadian production house that rarely gets the recognition it deserves in the history of animation.
Links:
Avery's IG Winter Solstice: A fun window into life smack in the middle of Manitoba.
https://www.instagram.com/tiggarjrozolphny
A Cosmic Christmas
https://bit.ly/3lFEVJV
Romie-0 and Julie-8
https://bit.ly/36Jlwl9
The animated segment from The Star Wars Holiday Special
https://bit.ly/3fc4VdA
The Devil and Daniel Mouse
https://bit.ly/3lI3LZz
Rock & Rule - Canadian cut (fan reconstruction)
http://bit.ly/2kTplQy
Rock & Rule - American cut
http://bit.ly/2kt8mEK
Rock & Rule - in 4:3?
https://bit.ly/32VFoQN
Intergalactic Thanksgiving
https://bit.ly/2UCcxfK
Heathcliff TV Series
https://bit.ly/2IL2piv
The Neverending Story Series
https://bit.ly/2HeuVZc
Pippi Longstocking (1997)
https://bit.ly/38QCfFD
Fievel’s American Tails
https://bit.ly/2HaOx0h
Hostess Potato Chip Animated Ads:
https://bit.ly/3lG9OOo
https://bit.ly/3kGmX8S
Babar and Father Christmas
https://bit.ly/2IMYH7y
Babar the Movie
https://bit.ly/35CPNm3
Eek! the Cat
https://bit.ly/36FxnAy
The Magic School Bus Theme
https://bit.ly/2UDhpkJ
The Care Bears Movie Trailer
https://bit.ly/3nKTaxR
Star Wars: Droids
https://bit.ly/3kJMGNr
Star Wars: Ewoks
https://bit.ly/3ffgTmz
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Music and clips are (mostly) from numerous productions by Nelvana.
Niagara Falls sound by miastodzwiekow.