Hot Stuff (1971 film)

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Hot Stuff
Directed by Zlatko Grgic
Screenplay by Don Arioli
Produced by Wolf Koenig
Robert Verrall
StarringDon Arioli (voice)
Gerald Budner (voice)
John Howe (voice)
CinematographySimon LeBlanc (animation camera)
Music byBill Brooks
Production
company
Running time
9 minutes, 9 seconds
CountryCanada
LanguagesEnglish, French

Hot Stuff is a 1971 animated short directed and animated by Zlatko Grgic [1] and written by Don Arioli. Produced by the National Film Board of Canada for the Dominion Fire Commission, a department of Public Works Canada, the nine-minute short on fire safety offers a humorous look [2] at the origins, benefits and dangers of fire. [3]

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Production

Grgic was recruited by for the NFB by producers Robert Verrall and Wolf Koenig after they saw his film Scabies. Much of Hot Stuff's humour had been initially improvised; Gerald Budner, who was himself an animator, ad-libbed voices for two of the characters, a snake and a cat. Arioli had been annoyed with Budner's banter, but Koenig insisted on retaining these asides. Grgic was also given freedom to improvise by the producers. [4]

Release

Hot Stuff was one of seven NFB animated shorts acquired by the American Broadcasting Company, marking the first time NFB films had been sold to a major American television network. It aired on ABC in the fall of 1971 as part of the children's television show Curiosity Shop , executive produced by Chuck Jones. [5] It also aired (minus the opening & closing credits) on The Great Space Coaster in the 1980s.

Awards

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References

  1. ↑ Hot Stuff, by Zlatko Grgic-Animation Show of Shows
  2. ↑ Internet Archive
  3. ↑ Evans, Gary (30 September 1991). In the national interest: a chronicle of the National Film Board of Canada from 1949 to 1989. University of Toronto Press. p. 199. ISBN   978-0-8020-6833-0 . Retrieved 15 December 2011.
  4. ↑ Mazurkewich, Karen (1999). Cartoon Capers: The Adventures of Canadian Animators (Excerpted in Canadian Animation Resources). McArthur & Co. p.  57. ISBN   978-1-55278-093-0 . Retrieved 15 December 2011.
  5. ↑ Ohayon, Albert (June 8, 2012). "What on Earth: Science fiction satire at its funniest". NFB.ca Blog. National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved June 8, 2012.
  6. ↑ "Film board wins awards". Sault Star , November 23, 1972.
  7. ↑ "Hot Stuff". Collection. National Film Board of Canada. 1971. Retrieved 2009-10-09.
  8. ↑ "Don Arioli". Canadian Film Encyclopedia. Film Reference Library. Archived from the original on 2009-02-26. Retrieved 2009-10-09.
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