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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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Tiniest Legacies Linger Longest

Posted by Jeff WIlson on Saturday, September 3, 2011, In : Canadian Comics 
 

© Jeff Wilson 2011
(drawn at age 14/15.)


    There are very few things in life that we do at a moment's notice that will linger in someone's memory for a lifetime, but there are one or two things that do. I have been fortunate to have found one thing that I did, that lives on in people's scrapbooks, their personal files, a basket in their living room and most importantly, in their hearts.
    A personalized cartoon greeting card.
    You may ask, how this could possibly happen. The person...

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