Noël Noël Explained

Noël Noël
Director:Nicola Lemay
Producer:Marc Bertrand
Jean-Jacques Leduc
Marcy Page
Narrator:Leslie Nielsen
Benoît Brière
Music:Daniel Scott
Studio:Teletoon
Distributor:National Film Board of Canada
Runtime:22 minutes
Country:Canada
Language:English
French

Noël Noël is a 22-minute animated short produced by the National Film Board of Canada in 2003 as a Christmas special. It was directed by Nicola Lemay and written by Martin Barry. The English-language version was adapted by John Weldon and narrated by Leslie Nielsen.[1] The original French-language version was narrated by Benoît Brière.[2]

Awards for the film included the Prix Gémeaux for Best Animated Program or Series and an Award of Excellence in the category of Animation age 6 - 8 from the Alliance for Children and Television.[3]

In the United States, the short aired on Cartoon Network.

Plot

Billionaire businessman Noel Noël is rich but rude. He falls for a fairy named Beatrice, and tries to win her love with material gifts before learning the true meaning of love from a little girl named Zoey Murphy, her dog Snooze, and a blue-eyed reindeer.[4]

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Lenburg, Jeff. Who's who in animated cartoons: an international guide to film & television's award-winning and legendary animators. 2006. Hal Leonard. 978-1-55783-671-7. 352–53. registration.
  2. Web site: Noël Noël . Notre collection. National Film Board of Canada. 30 July 2010. French.
  3. Web site: Noël Noël. Film collection. National Film Board of Canada. 30 July 2010.
  4. Book: Crump . William D. . Happy Holidays—Animated! A Worldwide Encyclopedia of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and New Year's Cartoons on Television and Film . 2019 . McFarland & Co . 9781476672939 . 219.