The Family That Dwelt Apart | |
Director: | Yvon Malette |
Producer: | Wolf Koenig Robert Verrall (exec.) |
Narrator: | E. B. White |
Cinematography: | Richard Moras (animation) Simon Leblanc (animation) Pierre Provost |
Music: | Eldon Rathburn |
Studio: | National Film Board of Canada |
Runtime: | 7 minutes |
Country: | Canada |
Language: | English |
The Family That Dwelt Apart is a 1973 animated short film created by Yvon Malette for the National Film Board of Canada.[1] [2] [3]
Based on the 1937 short story "Preposterous Parables; III The Family Which Dwelt Apart" by E. B. White, the film is about what happens to a family of seven who live in happy isolation on a small island in Barnetuck Bay. When the bay freezes over and outsiders believe that the family must be in distress, an ill-conceived rescue attempt makes for unexpected adventures, and disaster.