Don't Knock the Ox

1970 film by Tony Ianzelo
  • 1970 (1970)
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Don't Knock the Ox is a 1970 short documentary film, directed by Tony Ianzelo National Film Board of Canada.[1][2]

The International Ox Pull, highlight of the Bridgewater, Nova Scotia annual fair, is a hold-over from the pioneer past when oxen cleared the land and tilled the soil. These beasts of burden have lost none of their pulling power, as demonstrated when they drag tons of weight loaded on sleds, with the winner pulling up to six tons.[3]

The film won the Canadian Film Award for Best Theatrical Short Film at the 23rd Canadian Film Awards in 1971.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Don't Knock the Ox". nfb.ca. National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved 21 April 2023.
  2. ^ Darrell Varga, Shooting from the East: Filmmaking on the Canadian Atlantic. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2015. ISBN 9780773546295. p. 156.
  3. ^ Darrell Varga, Rain, Drizzle, Fog: Film and Television in Atlantic Canada. University of Calgary Press, 2009. ISBN 9781552382486. p. 11.
  4. ^ Maria Topalovich, And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards. Stoddart Publishing, 2000. ISBN 0-7737-3238-1. pp. 93-95.

External links

  • Watch Don't Knock the Ox on the NFB website
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1 These two films were given honorable mentions rather than officially winning the award, but are included here as no other winner was named above them.
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