Derek Lamb Movies

This animated short film attempts to answer the eternal questions, What is dying? and How does it feel? Based on recent studies, case histories and...

Derek Lamb stop motion film, 1969

This animated short follows an unwanted baby who is passed from house to house. The film is the Canadian contribution to an hour-long feature film...

Nesbitt Spoon, who's a bit of a nebbish, tells us about his day, which is fairly average up until the moment that his doctor tells him he has only...

Hopeful job candidate Buck Boom is dynamic, forceful, confident and creative. But can he convince Mr. Mudgin, the personnel manager, to hire him? You...

Roch Carrier recounts the most mortifying moment of his childhood. At a time when all his friends worshipped Maurice "Rocket" Richard and wore his...

Centres on Canadian animator Ryan Larkin, who in later years lived on skid row in Montreal following a history of drug and alcohol abuse.

A hapless husband neglects to clear the icy walk, which leads to the mailman slipping and breaking his neck. A comedy of errors results from his...

Behind these bars lies an unbridled fury. Caged Terror-a tale of madness, infidelity and revenge. Everyone needs to get away from it all, and the...

An egg desperately tries to prevent being hatched. In this animated short from the Canada Vignette series, learn how societies in evolution are often...

This lively satire uses animation and a pseudo-documentary style to depict Canada's search for a national identity. The National Scream explains,...

A short illustrating Wade Hemsworth's folk song about a woman's admiration for the agility of her boyfriend, the log driver.

A light hearted look at the various instruments of the orchestra, based on the original cartoons of the late Gerard Hoffnung, satirising musical...

A nonsense song, sung by Burl Ives and given unrestrained interpretation by the cartoonist. Of course, by the time the song ends the old lady has...

A short documentary about singers Kate and Anna McGarrigle made by animator Caroline Leaf.

Canuck anti-drugs propaganda film about how glue huffing and pill popping and weed smoking leads to child prostitution. Or something. The backstory...

A visual interpretation of the poem "Riverdale Lion" by Canadian poet and essayist John Robert Colombo.

This vignette illustrates the variety of professions, people and technical procedures required by the filmmaking process.

An animated fable for children showing that things can be malignant or benign depending on how they are used--with good or evil intent.

An examination of the Viking explorers who were the first Europeans to discover Canada.