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Grey Owl's Little Brother

Accession number: 
1932.0001
Alternate Titles: 
Le P'tit frère de Grey Owl
Production Years: 
1932
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Length (feet): 
945 (35mm); 380 (16mm)
Length (minutes): 
11

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Library and Archives Canada: 35mm, 16mm, VHS.
"The story of the friendship between Grey Owl and a beaver. Sheltered and fed by Grey Owl through babyhood, the little beaver is reluctant to return to his own people. But when he does, Grey Owl (Archie Belaney) is adopted by the entire beaver tribe. The film shows Grey Owl playing with his beaver friends and re-enacting the finding of the baby beaver."

Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec, Centre d'archives de Québec, Québec: 16mm.
"L'Indien Grey Owl, grand ami des animaux de nos forêts, élève un jeune castor et l'apprivoise. On peut voir le petit animal dans son milieu naturel où il travaille et s'ébat en toute liberté. "

Bibliography: 

Peter Morris, Embattled Shadows: A History of Canadian Cinema 1895-1939 (McGill/Queen's University Press, 1978), 172, 230, 265, 323.

Film News (July 1940): 6.
(1940 World's Fair Schedule): "Grey Owl's Little Brother. 35 mm sound. Documentary."

Motion Picture Distributors and Exhibitors of Canada, Canadian Motion Pictures 1914-1932 (June 1932), 6.

"Grey Owl's Little Brother," 16mm Motion Picture Films - Canadian Travel Film Library (Chicago/New York, 1954): 4.
"This is the sound version of the silent motion pictures 'The Beaver People' and 'The Beaver Family.'"

Gouvernement du Québec: Ministère des Communications, Direction générale du cinéma et de l’audiovisuel, Catalogue des films d’archives, volume 1 (Québec: Éditeur officiel du Québec, 1976), 25.
"L'Indien Grey Owl, grand ami des animaux de nos forêts, élève un jeune castor et l'apprivoise. Ce petit drame nous permet d'observer le castor dans son milieu naturel où il travaille et s'ébat en toute liberté."

Comments: 
This film was produced by special arrangement with National Parks of Canada. It was an Academy Award nominee.