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Title: STORY OF SAWNEY BEANE, the

Reference number: 7938

Date: 2005

Director: d. Elizabeth Hobbs

Sponsor: Scottish Screen

Producer: Katja Anderson (Red Kite); Michael Fukushima (NFB)

Production company: p. National Film Board of Canada in co-production with Red Kite Animations Limited

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 10.31 mins

Description: In 16th-century Scotland, young Sawney Beane yearns to itch and scratch and buccaneer. So he bids farewell to his parents and their life of honest toil. Forty years later, Betty Beane sets off to find her long lost son with a secret suspicion in her heart.

Technique: charcoal and watercolour on paper.

See also National Film Board of Canada's website for further information at http://www3.nfb.ca/collection/films/fiche/?id=51965 [last accessed 26/4/2010]

Credits: sc. Elizabeth Hobbs
animat. Elizabeth Hobbs
as told by Sheila Donald
original m. Normand Roger
sd. design Normand Roger
with the collaboration of Denis Chartrand
Some music based on traditional Scottish songs © 2005 National Film Board of Canada (socan)
musician Bernard Cormier (violin), Michel Dubeau (Scottish small pipe, flute and whistles), Alan Cazes (tuba)
sd. ed. Pierre Yves Drapeau
story and picture ed. Mark Jenkins, ARC Facilities
digital imaging specialists Pierre Plouffe, Susan Gourley
digital film specialist Pierre Landry
voice recording Stewart Wakefield, Canongate Studios
re-recording Serge Boivin
video on-line Denis Pilon
titles Serge Gaspard Gaudreau
p. supervisors Richard Lesage (NFB), Jennifer Loughnan (Red Kite)
administration Gisèle Guilbaul, Jocelyne Lalonde
marketing manager Hélène Tanguay
exec. p. Ken Anderson (Red Kite), David Verrall (NFB)
p. Katja Anderson (Red Kite); Michael Fukushima (NFB)

Produced by The National Film Board of Canada in co-production with red Kite Animations Limited in association with Scottish Screen

© 2005 National Film Board of Canada, Red Kite Animations Ltd.