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🇨🇦 📺 CANADIAN TV TIME MACHINE — THE SWEATER (1980) 🏒
If you grew up in Canada, chances are you remember this little animated masterpiece! 🇨🇦
In 1980, the National Film Board of Canada released The Sweater, a charming animated short directed by Sheldon Cohen and based on Roch Carrier’s beloved story The Hockey Sweater.
Set in a small Quebec village during the winter of 1946, the story follows a young boy who, like practically every other kid in town, worships the legendary Maurice “Rocket” Richard of the Montreal Canadiens.
But when his mother orders him a new hockey sweater from the Eaton’s catalogue, disaster strikes!
Instead of the glorious red, white and blue of the Montreal Canadiens, he receives something absolutely unthinkable… a Toronto Maple Leafs sweater! 😱🍁
And if that wasn’t bad enough, his mother insists he wear it!
What follows is one of the funniest and most memorable stories in Canadian hockey folklore, complete with an angry young hockey player, an unforgiving referee, and a desperate prayer for a million moths to eat his sweater!
Narrated by Roch Carrier himself, this little film captures something wonderfully Canadian — childhood innocence, small-town winters, hockey rivalries, and the almost religious devotion Canadians once had for their favourite teams.
More than four decades later, The Sweater remains a treasured piece of Canadian culture.
🎬 The Sweater (1980)
National Film Board of Canada
Directed and animated by Sheldon Cohen
Based on The Hockey Sweater by Roch Carrier
Who else remembers watching this Canadian classic growing up? 🏒❤️
#CanadianNostalgia #TheHockeySweater #NFB
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