![]() And the Adventure Continues: The film ends with the lighthouse keeper flinging Paddle-to-the-Sea into the ocean, as the narrator wonders where it will go next.Lawrence River and heading for the open ocean. "Paddle to the Sea" goes through some rapids before hitting Lake Superior, then journeys through the Great Lakes, passing a (staged) forest fire and the city of Detroit, passing over Niagara Falls before hitting the St. The snow melts, and the little carving toboggans down the hill into a stream. The boy sets it on a snowy hillside, with the hope that when the snow melts, little "Paddle to the Sea" will in fact be carried to the sea.Īnd so it does. ![]() So instead he makes a wood carving, a little carving of a First Nations man in a wooden canoe. A boy, a member of the " Nipigon people " of northwestern Ontario, is sickly and so can't travel around very much. It is an adaptation of children's book Paddle-to-the-Sea by Holling C. ![]() ![]() Paddle to the Sea is a 1966 short film (28 minutes) directed by Bill Mason, and produced by the National Film Board of Canada. ![]()
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