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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 Kids Of Johnny Canuck Come Marching Home

Posted by Jeff WIlson on Thursday, August 4, 2011, In : Canadian Comics 

Fifteen year-old Toronto youth Leo Bachle had just been dismissed from the Canadian army for lying about his age and through a chum, had taken a job delivering lenses. During one delivery at the Percy Hermont building, Bachle came across a stack of comic books in front of an office for Bell Features. He began to thumb through several, when a middle-aged man stormed out of the office and confronted him. A heated exchange ensued, which led to the gent challenging Bachle to do a rehearsal...


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