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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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Hockey & Cartoons: From Peter Puck to The Guardian Project

Posted by Jeff WIlson on Tuesday, April 19, 2011, In : Canadian Comics 
    Canadians have watched their game flogged and marketed like soap, ever since the game was introduced to Americans. The game just never reached the level of football, baseball and basketball, despite the sports greatest efforts.
    One of the techniques explored has been comics and cartooning, with varying and variable degrees of success. Animation icon Walt Disney, (whose father actually lived in Goderich, Ontario briefly), produced a couple of the earliest hockey cartoons: "The Hockey Ch...
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