Salerno Film Festival, Salerno, Italy: First Prize, Information Films, 1967.Yorkton Film Festival, Yorkton, Saskatchewan: First Place, Creative Arts and Experimental Films, 1967.While Holling's 1941 book focuses only on the geography and commercial importance of the Great Lakes and Saint Lawrence River, Mason's film includes a sequence where the tiny boat must endure polluted waters, shot on Lake Superior near Marathon, Ontario. The film differs from the children's book in its inclusion of the problem of water pollution. The filmmaker taught himself to carve in order to make the boats, which had to be replaced when they drifted off at sea-or were lost over Niagara Falls. Mason and colleague Blake James did not ask for permission to climb over the safety fence to film the sequence of the little boat going over the Horseshoe Falls: they rappeled down to the water's edge, with James casting the boat into the water and Mason filming. Other shooting locations included a staged forest fire at Meech Lake, with Mason torching spruce trees that he had installed along the shoreline, and the local fire department on standby. While the story begins near Lake Nipigon, the launch scene was shot in Gatineau Park. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film at the 40th Academy Awards. Holling, and follows the adventures of a child's hand-carved toy Indian in a canoe as it makes its way from Lake Superior to the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, through Canada's waterways. It is based on the 1941 children's book Paddle-to-the-Sea by American author and illustrator Holling C.
Paddle to the Sea (French: Vogue-à-la-mer) is a 1966 National Film Board of Canada short live-action film directed, shot and edited by Bill Mason.
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