Julie O'Brien 1981

Year Published: 1981

Country of Origin: Canada

Description: 16mm Film - Julie O'Brien - Kanada 1981 Written and directed by: Beverly Shaffer Cinematography by: Kent Nason Music by: Larry Crosley Starring: Julie O'Brien and her family et al. Julie O'Brien, eleven, lives in Tors Cove, Newfoundland. This film is loosely structured around Julie's school assignment to write an essay about the old times in Newfoundland, how they have changed, how they are still remembered. Her story, told in the first person with cutaway shots to her many activities, demonstrates that in Tors Cove the new ways have not crowded out the old. Julie O'Brien, elf Jahre alt, lebt in Tors Cove, Neufundland. Der Film ist lose um Julies Schulaufgabe aufgebaut, einen Aufsatz über die alten Zeiten in Neufundland zu schreiben, wie sie sich verändert haben und wie man sich noch an sie erinnert. Ihre Geschichte, die in der ersten Person erzählt wird und in der Schnittbilder zu ihren vielen Aktivitäten zu sehen sind, zeigt, dass in Tors Cove die neuen Wege die alten nicht verdrängt haben.

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foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] I'm Julia Prime I'm 10 and wake up 11. I live with horoscope smart fishing settlement in Newfoundland it's a good place to go up in here and we have clean air and salt water and there's two beautiful islands right near our Cove [Music] we use kids connecting in the back very fast but many of our parents care years ago children wore different clothes than they do today boys for pets [Music] always for purchase and girls wore Land skirts now children wear jeans cords short skirts slacks and tops schools have also changed there used to be six or seven grades in the world classroom when our parents went to school but now there was usually one grade in one classroom that's because he loves her soul so that is a very excellent example of friendship now just supposing that each of you were given the opportunity to pick out a friend that would be some of the things that you would pick out from a friend Ross okay A friend is someone who cares for you and maybe that's a very important thing to look for a friend Darren it's your friend just say share secretary someone who you can trust why is that so important because if you have anything that you'd like to say that it turn them and you wouldn't like repeated okay now is it possible for you to get all your friends to like you no why not okay probably the way you went they might not like it my favorite subject in school is family life because you get to know about how babies are born and you get to learn about physical fatherhood and physical motherhood and also you get to learn about your own feelings now another question when you develop friends you develop friends of two Sexes or male and female is that important no it's not really important but do you think it's going to happen yes why yes Chris this guy's playing that's God's plan now why do you think God has a plan like that [Music] that's right so he's family down in American Girl after school a lot of the kids like to go skating and the pan if it's frozen you got a ribbon yeah when I got skating I have to wear my nails My Man skates because my feet are too big to fit into my house [Music] my best friend's name is Jackie she's the same grade as me she has seven in her family and that's a pretty big family and the Elvis is married now and Jackie is the honest [Music] no [Music] [Applause] foreign [Music] okay well Math's pretty good anytime I have any problems or anything she already knows about it and she tough them up with me and that makes it easier to handle I hang up Landing any old way at all but now says that the big Carlson smile cars are supposed to call a special kind of a way like the Sharks they're supposed to be home Taylor and the slacks are supposed to be hung up by the waist and then the socks and the other Underpants go together laughs [Music] my dad is a carpenter of course in in the summer he works as a Cabinet in which the dog sometimes gets laid off which I like because we can go into the woods and I'll help them cut down the trees and get them hard on the horse and everything in town yeah man [Music] [Music] all right this one [Music] our roads were quite different too at one time they were only used by horse and cars they were very narrow Rocky and rough in later years with the heavy use of automobiles the roads had to be warned and paved foreign [Music] [Music] but the mode of fishing hasn't changed a great deal over the years the fisherman will still get off as early as three or four o'clock in the morning of course the method of processing the fish has changed to great deal [Music] [Music] okay bye [Music] children right went to school to put in a pot belly stove today there are furnaces and electrocutors [Music] on Saturday mornings I get up a bit earlier with Lisa and Colleen my sisters and I make breakfast for them I let Mom sleep in because that's the only day the week she gets a break so I come down and I make scrambled eggs for dinner they especially like because they get to eat most of them salt and pepper it's over don't touch yourself [Laughter] [Music] [Applause] mmm [Music] being the oldest man you have to have a lot of responsibility and you have to show a good example because you're Dependable from your parents thank you yeah yeah it's good it's delicious well we all have chores except I get the most we I wipe off the stove do the dishes things like that but for sure I have is doing the bathrooms playing battles thank you [Music] the Ryan kind of just goes around here but the rare record apps which I like to go to they have kind of a bob sort of thing when you just oh boys and girls go there sometimes boys ask girls to dance and sometimes girls as boys students and sometimes there's just a girl says with girls [Applause] [Music] I'm that interesting boys yet but the usual age to get interested in boys is around round 12 or 13 but I'm only 11. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] are you playing hockey last night I have the first one's very nice he likes helping out with people and he has a big Shaggy Dark Half Albert that that is that this is cheap dad and something like Mr mugson I read or something great too and he uh he has four churches so I don't know how he gets the talent to go into the woods hunting and going out to good hoos and everything yeah poor parents overtime man no longer oh I see oh yeah and if he would just pay I'm pretty good are we all set now from us our church is very old I think it's about 100 years old anyway a lot of people like it and they still cultures foreign [Applause] brings a certain amount of disruption somewhat like the waves that are caused by throwing the soul into a Quiet Pond we have to be wary of change and we have to prepare ourselves for it or it will devour the things of life which we have valued so dear thank you this is [Music] everything foreign [Music] has 11 in his family the older people play cats and we kind of had a good time and then we have a sing-along and then we then we have some footage oh sweat take something to be dead well I'm not very good at step dancing I can step there it's a little bit down one foot I'm not as good as my package [Applause] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] dances and he sings and and then there's Nana she's the oldest and she's my great grandma my father's grandmother she's not empty but she can still play recording and then there's my name she likes going to Bingo and she has to surprise [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Ty and family life hold a lot of meaning to us and hopefully will continue into the future many things have changed as you've just heard but the old times I still remember haha [Music] Batman in the world [Music] change words to find him again foreign

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