''50 ans'' is a 1989 Canadian

short film A short film is any motion picture that is short enough in running time not to be considered a feature film. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of 40 minutes ...

directed by

Gilles Carle Gilles Carle, (July 31, 1928As fully funny, Carle had pleasure to always give himself one year less, and to let people think wrongly that he was born in 1929, "The Year of the Big World Crash": see on the Quebec French newspapers that many writer ...

. It won the Short Film Palme d'Or at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival.

Summary

The film consists of brief clips, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the

National Film Board of Canada The National Film Board of Canada (NFB; french: Office national du film du Canada (ONF)) is Canada's public film and digital media producer and distributor. An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB produces and distributes documentary f ...

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/ref> The following films are included in the short: *''

Very Nice, Very Nice ''Very Nice, Very Nice'' is a Canadian avant-garde collage film made by Arthur Lipsett in 1961, and produced by the National Film Board of Canada. Plot Thoughts about day-to-day life interpreted through snapshots and sound collages pondering if ...

'' (1961) *'' Neighbours'' (1952) *''

Evolution Evolution is change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. These characteristics are the expressions of genes, which are passed on from parent to offspring during reproduction. Variation ...

'' (1971) *'' Pas de Deux'' (1968) *''

Bead Game ''Bead Game'' (French:'' Histoire de perles'') is a 1977 animated short film by Ishu Patel, created by arranging beads into the shapes of real and mythical creatures, who absorb and devour one another, thus, evolving into scenes of modern human wa ...

'' (1977) *''

The Railrodder ''The Railrodder'' is a 1965 short comedy film starring Buster Keaton in one of his final film roles, directed by Gerald Potterton and produced by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). A 25-minute comedic travelogue of Canada, ''The Railrodder ...

'' (1965)

References

External links

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NFB Web page for ''50 ans'' (in French)
{{DEFAULTSORT:50 Ans 1989 films 1989 documentary films 1989 short films Canadian short documentary films 1980s French-language films Canadian black-and-white films Films directed by Gilles Carle Short Film Palme d'Or winners National Film Board of Canada short films Documentary films about the cinema of Canada National Film Board of Canada documentaries Collage film 1980s short documentary films French-language Canadian films 1980s Canadian films