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Story Behind the 1967 "Hockey Night In Canada" Animated Opening

Posted by Jeff WIlson on Saturday, October 18, 2014, In : Canadian Film, Animation & Advertising 

When I wrote about animation and hockey in an earlier blog, I had yet to find out about one of my favourite and least known about, perhaps even the least cared about, if not most mysterious hockey animation of all time.

It was the opening of CBC-TV's "Hockey Night In Canada" for at least one season and it featured a "Field Of Dreams-like" sequence of stylized hockey players soaring on and off camera, around and about one another other on a multi-plane ice surface. The player's heads were blac...


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The Whiteboard Cartooning Phenomena

Posted by Jeff Wilson on Wednesday, April 6, 2011, In : Canadian Comics 
     Since I was a boy, the role and prominence of comics in the world has changed. First of all, publishing and the print medium has transferred over largely to the world of the internet and the explosion of something called "social media". The simple line cartoon seemed to be lost for a time, while newspapers downsized, or vanished altogether.
     However, there seems to be a brand new phenomenon bringing this style, perfected by such bygone stellar Canadian talents as Jimmy Frise, Doug Wri...
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