Posted: Thurs., Oct. 9, 2008, 12:15pm PT

Academy salutes Canadian cartoons

Historian Charles Solomon will host event

Canuck animated shorts will be feted in Washington on Oct. 27, when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences delivers "A Salute to the National Film Board of Canada."

Hosted by animation critic and historian Charles Solomon, the event will celebrate more than five decades of the NFB's Oscar-nominated and winning pics with screenings of "Neighbours" (1952), "Walking" (1969), "Bob's Birthday" (1993), "Ryan" (2004) and "The Danish Poet" (2006).

The show will be followed by a panel discussion with NFB chair and government film commissioner Tom Perlmutter, NFB animation producer Marcy Page and Torill Kove, who directed Oscar winner "The Danish Poet."

AMPAS' salute to the NFB is presented in partnership with the Charles Guggenheim Center for Documentary Film and the Foundation for the National Archives and takes place in the William G. McGowan Theater at the National Archives in D.C. Tickets are free.


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