Paddle to the Sea

Paddle to the Sea
Directed by	Bill Mason
Produced by	Julian Biggs
Screenplay by	Bill Mason
Based on	Paddle-to-the-Sea by Holling C. Holling
Starring	Kyle Apatagen
Narrated by	Stanley Jackson
Music by	Louis Applebaum
Cinematography	Bill Mason
Production company	National Film Board of Canada
Distributed by	National Film Board of Canada
Release dates	1966
Running time	27 min 59 s
Country	Canada
Language	English

Paddle to the Sea (French: Vogue-à-la-mer) is a 1966 National Film Board of Canada short live-action film directed, shot and edited by Bill Mason, based on the 1941 children's book Paddle-to-the-Sea by American author and illustrator Holling C. Holling. The film follows the adventures of a child's hand-carved toy Indian in a canoe as it makes its way from Lake Superior to the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, through Canada's waterways. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film at the 40th Academy Awards. Louis Applebaum composed the musical score.

The film differs from the children's book in its inclusion of the problem of water pollution. While Holling's 1941 book focuses only on the geography and commercial importance of the Great Lakes and Saint Lawrence River, Mason's film includes a sequence where the tiny boat must endure polluted waters, shot on Lake Superior near Marathon, Ontario.

External links

• Watch Paddle to the Sea at NFB.ca
• Paddle to the Sea at IMDb