Hunger (1973 film)

Hunger/La Faim is a 1973 animated short film produced by the National Film Board of Canada. It was directed by Peter Foldes and is one of the first computer animation films. The story, told without words, is a morality tale about greed and gluttony in contemporary society.

Hunger/La Faim
English opening title
Directed byPeter Foldes
Music byPierre F. Brault
Distributed byNational Film Board of Canada
Running time
11 minutes and 12 seconds
CountryCanada
LanguageNone
Budget$38,893

National Research Council

Peter Foldes worked in collaboration with the National Research Council's Division of Radio and Electrical Engineering's Data Systems Group, who decided to develop a computer animation application in 1969. NRC scientist Nestor Burtnyk had heard an animator from Disney explain the traditional animation process, where a head animator draws the key cels and assistants draw the fill in pictures. The work of the artist's assistant seemed to Burtnyk to be the ideal demonstration vehicle for computer animation and within a year he programmed a "key frame animation" package to create animated sequences from key frames. The NFB in Montreal was contacted so that artists could experiment with computer animation. Foldes made a 1971 experimental film involving freehand drawings called Metadata.[1] This was followed by Hunger, which took him and his NRC partners a year and a half to make.[2] It cost $38,893 (equivalent to $233,358 in 2021) to create.[3]

Awards

References
  1. "Metadata". Collection. National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved 12 January 2010.
  2. "Retired NRC Scientists Burtnyk and Wein honoured as Fathers of Computer Animation Technology in Canada". Sphere. National Research Council of Canada. 4. 1996.
  3. Evans 1991, p. 137.
  4. "LA FAIM - Festival de Cannes". festival-cannes.com.
  5. "Past Winners, 1975" (PDF). yorkton.com. Yorkton Film Festival. Retrieved 8 March 2023.
  6. "Hunger". onf-nfb.gc.ca. National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved 8 March 2023.

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