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Thread #114596   Message #2448377
Posted By: john f weldon
23-Sep-08 - 03:12 PM
Thread Name: Origin: The Badger Drive / The Log Driver's Waltz
Subject: RE: Badger driver/ Logdrivers waltz.
I posted this a while ago; the new hi-res on-line version. (The loggie, not the badger). Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. I think if too many people try to watch at once it clogs up the nfb system.

http://beta.nfb.ca/film/vignette_log_drivers_waltz/

Wade originally wrote the song (along with several others) for an NFB documentary called Spring Drive. The producers thought it was too "light-hearted" for documentary. Lucky for me, though, perfect for animation! The opening live shots are "outs" from the Spring Drive film.

Wade did spend a lot of time in Northern Ontario as a surveyor for the power companies. His song "Black Flies" was also made into an animated film, by my friend Chris Hinton.