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Cornet at Night

Cornet at Night

7,5 /10 (2 Votes)
1963 EN 14 min

Overview

Based on a short story by Sinclair Ross, this short film recalls rural life on the Prairies in the 1930s. In the film a farmer's young son, sent to town to hire a man for the harvest, readily accepts when an itinerant trumpet player, down on his luck, begs a chance. He is hardly the kind of man the boy's father had in mind, but that night his trumpet speaks from the shadows and everyone pauses to listen.

Release date

01/01/1963

Votes

2

Popularity

0.2

A memory of boyhood on a northern Saskatchewan farm.

Genres

Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

14 min

Website

nfb.ca

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