Getting Started Explained
| Getting Started |
| Producer: | Jerry Krepakevich |
| Starring: | Jay Brazeau (voice)
Richard Condie [1] |
| Music: | Patrick Godfrey |
| Studio: | National Film Board of Canada (NFB) |
| Runtime: | 12 minutes |
| Country: | Canada |
| Language: | English |
Getting Started is a 1979 animated short by Richard Condie[2] and produced in Winnipeg by the National Film Board of Canada.
Summary
The film is a comical look at procrastination, based partly on the filmmaker's own experiences, portraying the inability of a pianist to rehearse a Debussy composition.[3] [4]
Accolades
Awards for Getting Started included the Genie Award for best animation film.[5] The film also won awards at the Zagreb World Festival of Animated Films and the Tampere Film Festival, as well as the Bijou Award for Best Animation.
Credits
- Story, Animation, Direction: Richard Condie
- Backgrounds: Sharon Condie
- Music: Patrick Godfrey - From Debussy's Children's Corner
- Voices: Richard Condie and Jay Brazeau
- Inker: Mary-Lou Storey
- Painter: Gloria Thorsteinson
- Animation Camera: Svend-Erik Eriksen and Tom Brydon
- Sound Editor: Ken Rodeck
- Re-Recording: Clive Perry
- Studio Administrator: Charles Lough
- Producer: Jerry Krepakevich
- Executive Producer: Michael Scott
- Getting Started
- A National Film Board Of Canada - Prairie Production
Notes and References
- https://www.allmovie.com/movie/getting-started-v343120/cast-crew AllMovie
- Web site: Cartoons Considered For An Academy Award – 1980 -. cartoonresearch.com.
- Encyclopedia: Richard Condie . Cuthbert . Pamela . January 2003 . Canadian Film Encyclopedia . Film Reference Library . 2009-08-31 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080423072618/http://www.filmreferencelibrary.ca/index.asp?layid=46&csid1=14&navid=46 . 2008-04-23 .
- Book: North of everything: English-Canadian cinema since 1980. 2002. University of Alberta Press. Edmonton. 0-88864-390-X. registration. Getting Started Condie.. William Beard & Jerry White. 3 November 2011. 77.
- Web site: Getting Started. 1979. Film Collection. National Film Board of Canada Web site. 2009-08-31.
