Operation Cuckoo
Foreign title: Opération Coucou (French)
- Studio
- National Film Board of Canada
- Distributor
- National Film Board of Canada
Synopsis
A moving and amusing short that shows tiny tots the many joys of friendship.
Mr. Edgar is a mechanical cuckoo who putters happily around in his cuckoo clock, keeping it in tiptop condition while waiting for his adopted fledglings to return in the spring. But their joyous reunion is followed by a terrible catastrophe: one of the clock's gears has fallen off! Without it, there's no tick-tock, and no cuckoo! Mr. Edgar has to get it back. An impossible task without the help of his new friend Loulou, a brave and resourceful firefly. She risks her life to help Mr. Edgar and he, in turn, saves her from a sticky situation. He then gives her a lovely surprise. Good friends know how to please those they love.
Mr. Edgar is a mechanical cuckoo who putters happily around in his cuckoo clock, keeping it in tiptop condition while waiting for his adopted fledglings to return in the spring. But their joyous reunion is followed by a terrible catastrophe: one of the clock's gears has fallen off! Without it, there's no tick-tock, and no cuckoo! Mr. Edgar has to get it back. An impossible task without the help of his new friend Loulou, a brave and resourceful firefly. She risks her life to help Mr. Edgar and he, in turn, saves her from a sticky situation. He then gives her a lovely surprise. Good friends know how to please those they love.
Characters
Mr. Edgar, Loulou
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Pierre M. Trudeau
Producing
- Producer
- Jean-Jacques Leduc
- Assistant to the Producer
- Francine Langdeau
Writing
- Writer
- Pierre M. Trudeau, Pierre-Michel Tremblay
- Concept
- Pierre M. Trudeau
- Text
- Pierre-Michel Tremblay
- English Adaptation
- Kathleen Fee
Voices
- Voice
- A.J. Henderson
- Live Action
- Richard Fréchette, Martine Fortin, Léo P. Chansigaud
Music
- Music
- Louis Gagné
- Arrangements
- Éric Asswad
- Musicians
- Éric Asswad, Jean Fréchette, Olivier Demers, Arnold Ludvig
Animation
- Animator
- Pierre M. Trudeau
Crew
- Voice Direction
- Kathleen Fee
- Digital Imaging Specialists
- Normand Gauthier, Susan Gourley, Ines Hardtke, Pierre Plouffe
- Live Action Coordinator
- Michel Pelland
- Camera
- François Blouin
- Picture Editing
- France Dubé
- Sound Editing
- Vincent Regaudie
- Music Recording
- Geoffrey Mitchell, Sylvain Cajelais
- Re-Recording
- Serge Boivin, Jean Paul Vialard
- Post-Production Coordination
- Andrée Delagrave
- Laboratory
- Covitec
- Administration
- Maryse Chapdelaine
- Administrative Team
- Diane Champagne, Diane Martindale, Diane Régimbald
- Marketing Officer
- Julie Roy
Awards
Honorable Mention, Education and Information, Columbus International Film and Video Festival, 2003