Christmas at Moose Factory

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Christmas at Moose Factory

1971

0h 13m

8.0(4 votes)

Documentary

Family

Animation

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A study of life at Christmastime in Moose Factory, an old settlement mainly composed of Cree families on the shore of James Bay, composed entirely of children's crayon drawings and narrated by children.

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Alanis Obomsawin

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