Crac! Frederic Back 1981

[@chrispeterson9345]

It's still one of my favorite works of animation, just lovely.

[@tamalderman1975]

I watched this with my dad when I was about 10 years old, so it must’ve been about 1985 and I am almost 50 years old now and my daddy passed away in 2014… he was 74 years old …but he and I up till a couple of weeks before he passed away talked about how this was our favorite special little short film that we cherished so much, because when we watched it together, it touched both of our lives individually and together in a most emotionally beautiful way. I loved my dad so much. He was awesome, and I miss him with all my heart. I wish that there was a way we could’ve seen this together one more time before he passed away, however, it was only until tonight that I found it again l, and so I watched it in his honor, and I cried tears of sadness and joy. I like to think that somehow someway he was here watching it with me in spirit! I’m certain he was actually!!! 🥺😌🥲😇😊🫶🏻🙏

[@MondoBeno]

Until youtube came along, you had to have access to a university's video library to see something like this.

[@CheyenneJasmine]

So true!

[@Game_Hero]

or, as a Québécois, simply buy the DVD

[@yelloweyeball]

I feel like internet archive these days has a better archive though, but true.

[@sgc4271]

this is the only crack from the 80s that is good for you.

[@lolz5459]

That's not very constructive I don't appreciate your sense of humor, this disgusts me

[@Humanophage]

I disagree. It's a decent mildly edgy joke.

[@KingOfInsanity777]

@@lolz5459 That sounds like a you problem, bro.

[@elizabethperritt3571]

I love this little short film. Reminds me of my mother's childhood in Northern Maine and the legends she was told about where babies come from!!!

[@barbarabarbieri2195]

This film perfectly embodies human existence on so many levels. I particularly love it because years ago we had a rocking chair that my boys loved. It was a fort, it was a car, it was whatever they chose to make it and they loved it. They, like the children in the film, have moved on with their lives, but not away from the family. Most importantly, this short film captures the fact that as much as our technology takes us out of the past and into the future, the past still manages to come along with us in so many ways.

[@gustavedupras8624]

"Crac" est un dessin animé du Québécois Frédéric Back qui a reçu un Oscar du meilleur court métrage d'animation en 1982.

[@christinalarouche6001]

Je braille comme un veau a chaque que je regarde ce film, merci Frédérick Bach, ce film est magistrale,

[@Detoutcoeur]

pour ne pas oublier nos racines...Chapeau, Monsieur Back...Reposez en paix! Je l'écoute toujours.. année après année dans le temps des Fêtes...Respect pour votre oeuvre et votre sensibilité à déceler ce qu'est le Québec profond...

[@LucCournoyer]

Merci pour votre beau commentaire bien exprimé, qui contraste avec certains commentaires vulgaires et déplacés!

[@Detoutcoeur]

La vérité unit, le scepticisme fait fuir...

[@lagosstammvaterderptolemae9478]

I fell the same way u do and then when he looked at him with his mouth open @@LucCournoyer

[@c7694]

My mother is French Canadian she said this is very French Canadian (Language) it is incredible for love it.

[@Game_Hero]

*québécois french

[@BeachgirlSouci]

My mother was French Canadian also, and when i was naughty, she would say she was going to give me back to the Indians. This film depicts that legend of Indians bringing babies rather than the stork!

[@mrbencroft8251]

First saw it when I was nine. School. Now I'm twenty, just found it again. The first bit in particular stuck with me for a relatively long while, considering my short life so far

[@hermajesty52]

I taped this on VHS many moons ago. It is a heartbreaker. I show it to my grandchildren now. 💚💚💚

[@BorisCr]

Sans aucun doute le plus grand animateur de toute l'histoire du cinéma vient de nous quitter. Merci pour tout, M. Frédéric Back!

[@rmguest]

This never fails to bring a smile to my face!

[@GulRamani]

Love the emotions that went through me as i watched this film. Thank you Frederic Back wherever you are. You and your work live everytime one sees it.

[@gardenglory6624]

yes agreed,. If I had a wedding I'd love to only have this kind of music and Cheer on our special day. A themed wedding Old French Canadian Style.

[@historyboff23]

OMG! This brings back so many memories along with the man who planted trees, what a beautiful film.

[@adriangironchavez6638]

Well-deserved Oscar for Best Short film animated in 1981

[@butchtheiw]

Finally, after 25 years, I found it again! Thanks for posting this.

[@gardenglory6624]

me too, me too , me too...been searching for THIS for 35 years .

[@enricomassari7475]

RIP Frederic Back! You're film are fantastic! From Italy

[@alynemarcoux9454]

Talentueux HUMBLE MONSIEUX BACK POUR TOUJOURS DANS NOTRE MEMOIRE UN GRAND GENIE

[@Mike06699]

Frédéric Back nous laisse des chef d'oeuvres,et surtout il nous laisse un grand message,à nous tous de le faire partager. Nous perdons un homme de grande valeur,un homme qui faisait passer ses messages par ses magnifiques dessins. Aller,reposer en paix Monsieur Back!

[@barbara314me]

I absolutely love this incredibly sensitive depiction of life as it was, and how it still is. These are universal themes, done so very well. It brings tears to my eyes each time I see it. And, the music is amazing Thank you so much, Frederic Back & co.

[@genevievebonin]

Bravo, sublime clin d,oeuil multiple aux légendes et chansons québécoises bravo

[@BeachgirlSouci]

My mother was French Canadian. When i was naughty, she jokingly threatened to give me back to the Indians. In French Canada, it wasn't the stork that brought babies, it was the Indians!

[@AirwrekaDoesntRead]

Here because it’s mentioned as a favorite film in a memoir. I have to watch it now!

[@Game_Hero]

Your memoir's author has great taste!

[@RichBishes-re9vm]

You should try thinking for yourself. HAVING to watch something because someone else said it's their favorite is a feelingless reason to do something. WANTING to watch it is an entirely different experience. The latter has true intention. Not trying to be mean.

[@Seaskaezdok]

It´s a very interesting short film. And the magic of animation gives to the movement images a sensation of universality. Maybe as you say is a Québécois movie but anyone, anywhere, could see it´s deep message of values and community membership.

[@mrs.g.9816]

I'm so glad I can see this cartoon again! So atmospheric and moving. It's sad to remember a long ago life and see everything become urbanized. I played a VHS of "Crac!" for my mom a long time ago, and she got misty eyed watching it, especially the scene where the children morphed into adults and said goodbye. She loved the music, too.

[@alexandrebertrand-lafleur3114]

The 10 first minutes show the Quebec before the industrialisation and the growing of the cities!

[@gardenglory6624]

Absolutely Enchanting. True Canadian Masterpiece. Last time I saw this was 35yrs ago.

[@Game_Hero]

*True Québécois masterpiece. This is culturally québécois through and through.

[@RightArmProductions]

I cannot imagine the amount of work that went into this. Besides the classic cartoons, this along with "The Sweater" are animations that made me want to be an animator. So glad to have found it... now if I could only produce something as timeless as this.

[@gardenglory6624]

3:48 kids with dog, that what we were like when we were little watching the adults having fun. LOL. Always so curious. LOL.

[@geoffreyludwig5438]

I remember seeing this animated short at the Queens Museum of Art on my school trips.

[@diapasonabsolu]

Au moment où je visionne ce merveilleux - dessin-animé- j'apprends par la télévision la décès de Frédéric BACK. Quelle tristesse de perdre un si grand artiste. 24 décembre 2013, 17 heures -

[@MariahDolenc]

I’m reading “Starting Point” and Hayao Miyazaki references this film giving it high praise, something that is rare for him.

[@Freyathrith]

That brought me here, too.

[@youngduke6951]

the animation is god level

[@elizasommers7590]

Only good? He's one of The masters of animation! ;)

[@m1garandm155]

@@elizasommers7590 he means great

[@thebard6961]

Thank you. I remember seeing this in theatres back in the 80s. Beautiful.

[@lecturideneuitat7989]

Beautiful indeed

[@Game_Hero]

You lucky one

[@mimilancan]

Magnifique ce film d'animation.

[@rebel750v4]

Sublime ***** Favori ,un grand chef- d'oeuvre ...

[@fcharrondiere]

une immense pensée ,la magie du mouvement de ses dessins , quel Bonheur

[@fcharrondiere]

trop bien

[@robinbugs6019]

this is absolutely wonderful

[@mgetsesplusgrandssucces2628]

Merci pour vos oeuvres! R.I.P.

[@Anekantavad]

I won't intrude on the pride that the Quebecois will take in little gems like this, and this is first and foremost a Quebecois film. But man, how this priceless work makes me feel Canadian! :-)

[@Werebat]

Not Acadian? I have always wondered...

[@Game_Hero]

Wow, thank you very much. Finally, someone that respect our distinct nation, it feels nice.

[@umachan9286]

Been looking for this cartoon for years. Finally able to see it again. Thank you for uploading this.

[@Riel25]

Wow. Quelle oeuvre que je viens de découvrir. Merci!

[@okitasan]

Hayao Miyazaki saw this movie with Isao Takahata during a trip to America in 1984. He says, “As we trudged home after the film, I remember saying to Takahata-san, “So, I guess we’re failures, aren’t we...”

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

I'm sure they learned a lot from this French Canadian fable.

[@kumaken]

Came here while listening to Jim Beaver’s book Life’s That Way

[@gelvinlane6097]

❤ Merci!

[@jeremiahlinton9582]

I grew up watching this and I still absolutely love it so deep!!!

[@ColoradoRicardo]

This is one of the most excellent animated shorts ever. It covers so much of the human experience. I only wish that I were able to ask Monsieur Back about what the paintings were and some of the other things that he did in this marvelous story of the human experience in Quebec, but he passed away a couple of years ago.

[@clarimartin3242]

Con mi mamá veíamos Caloi en su Tinta y estos cortos que quedan en el recuerdo.. muy bueno encontrarlos despues de tantos años..

[@ngoudaprinceba9813]

C'est magnifique. Merci beaucoup pour le partage.

[@raffvids]

For the benefit of international viewers - at 10:18 that yellow church-y thing is a chalice in a tabernacle; or more infamously in Quebec, "Calisse de Tabarnak!!" which is how Quebecers swear.

[@darkshadowxox643]

I am new in Canada..why was it censored?!

[@charliegirl6]

learn something new every day :D

[@JEWLES4EVER]

Eliaziah it's a swear. In French, most of the swears are religious objects.

[@Asiangirlshot1]

+JEWLES4EVER Well, especially in Quebec, French people tend to use word like : putain (prostitute). You say Tabarnak to a French person and he/she would not deeply understand how rude it can be for a Quebecker and the all the way around with putain. it is like when a non-native English speaker say the "f" Word. It will never be as powerful and significant than the swears that he/has in his/her mother tongue.

[@thewindthatshakesbar]

+raffvids Oublie pas l'ostie!

[@lolbob2135]

not the crack i was looking for but it'll do

[@robinxu1151]

my favorite cartoon in childhood, still impressed.

[@watchforever1724]

If anything this was made in 1981

[@oscareduardoorellanamoreno2559]

El mejor film que he visto en mi vida.

[@ShortTailedSnails]

Bravo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@tecnofolk7279]

Gracias por presentarme a Le Rêve du Diable

[@mactcampbell]

Superb animation and music.

[@DrBonesNurseAmy]

Beautiful and heartwarming ♥️♥️♥️🎄

[@ameliest-aubin8147]

J'adore!!!

[@ameliest-aubin8147]

un aveugle comme michel...

[@ameliest-aubin8147]

mon amie gaspésienne dessinait comme lui dans l'ouest!!!!!! Je possède les vieux prismacolors encore de qualité!!!!!

[@victoriacantin8618]

frederik back es le grand pere de mon enseignanate

[@Game_Hero]

quel chanceux

[@MsKeebe]

What a beautiful little gift of animation. Breathtaking!

[@iyaska]

my most favorite animation~~~

[@sab247qc2]

j'ai bien aimé !, mon professeur d'histoire me la fait écouter

[@djeisonhoerlle5928]

Terminei de assistir. É incrível como há 40 anos atrás um único artista teve a sacada de fazer uma história capturando os momentos chave da vida humana, o que já não é tarefa fácil, mas que se torna ainda mais rico por ter sido feito pela perspectiva de um objeto. Inclusive, chega a ser poético uma história sobre a vida começar com a criação de um objeto, e não no nascimento de um homem. Acho que talvez isso se dê por se tratar de uma cadeira de uma época anterior à obsolescência programada, como diz o meu pai, "época que as coisas eram feitas para durar". A vida e o tempo talvez sejam grandes demais para uma história sobre um humano. É preciso algo que dure mais para contá-la, e a cadeira sorridente foi uma grande escolha.

[@archangel4754]

Love the music!

[@vaibhavjain3234]

This is so special.It kepte sucked in till the last frame.

[@francoisdumont4105]

All hand drawn with wood pencils

[@PaulRacicot]

Touching story.

[@20ans]

L'histoire d'une chaise à travers le temps...

[@derekkk3015]

tres tres bien!

[@MrMarktrumble]

Very good . Thank you

[@shizuderby]

So cute and it gives me warm and happy feeling. I happened to know this film when I visited an exhibition of Frederic Back in Sapporo, Japan last weekend.

[@heyjimr]

Thank you for adding this! An excellent animated film.

[@alexandrebertrand-lafleur3114]

10:58, the year is 1956, Les Belles histoires des pays d'en haut!

[@VictoriaRedroseRobin]

Amazing video thank you to my friend for bringing me here.:-)

[@blackhawk47k56]

Imagine disliking this..

[@PaolaZugna67orsolitario]

... j'aime le Québec

[@Snordix]

Some 20 years after I first watched this as a child, I have come to an interesting discovery. At least for me. This whole 15 min film is a greater piece of art than all those minimalist and avant garde crap could ever hope to be. Both technically and emotionally. I guess it is no coincidence that in it, the children are more attracted towards a wooden rocking chair than the supposed art in the museum. Just sayin.

[@Mrninthlevel]

Ty! 20 year search over.

[@AprilMaciel2002]

thank you this has helped me alot in french class again thank you

[@KirbyLeeDavis]

Love this film!

[@marianoignaciosolissolorza6995]

Master piece

[@JasonRamasami]

Thankyou.

[@Humanophage]

What is the symbolism of abstract art being so benign in the end? Is it the idea that the Quiet Revolution is a product of the 1960s, and that it reawakened respect for French history and identity? It seems to me that the traditional New French identity collapsed not so much with the industrialisation as with the decline of the old religious society, which was partly pretty urban and industrial. In spite of a certain cultural flowering, it seems to spell death or at least total marginalisation for French Quebecois due to slashed fertility rates.

[@MondoBeno]

I heard that the Quebecois birth rate used to be a lot higher. But I also wonder if the former marginalization of the French in Quebec was due to French-speaking Catholic schools not preparing the students for higher education?

[@watchforever1724]

Great short

[@Pauliquette]

Québec's culture is not as exclusive as it is commonly portraited. And I have to say, as a Québécois, that I am both touched that you find pride in this and grateful for your comment.

[@watchforever1724]

What ?

[@Game_Hero]

@@watchforever1724 It is politically glorified in Canada to be racist against Québécois people in ways that would be deemed unacceptable and offensive if it were against other minority groups. If only you saw and heard what I saw and heard, you'd be shocked.

[@watchforever1724]

@@Game_HeroAh I see

[@annalisapaulon1698]

Troppo bello!!!

[@maqsyq]

Muy buen video. Seguid así

[@ehites]

how delightful!

[@reefbismuth]

This is so cool!

[@emssherill]

COOL !

[@watchforever1724]

Agreed

[@Tamerplane]

I'm not surprised considering a large chunk of the Canadian identity originates from Québec or has been made possible due to Québécois : hockey, bilingualism, the national anthem, responsible government in Canada (1848), cultural diversity.

[@PaolaZugna67orsolitario]

...j'aime les canadiennes!

[@yvespetit2387]

Paola, parlez-vous des manteaux d'hiver ou des femmes?

[@vivianedube2753]

Yves Petit ....BONSOIR MONSIEUR!D’autant plus que Frédéric Back ne reçu JAMAIS le MÉRITE qu’il ESCOMPTAIT!...Je l’affirmait alors à mon conjoint!!..Combien avons-nous eût d’artistes qui furent HAUTEMENT « MÉSESTIMÉS??. ». (21 avril 2018).

[@Game_Hero]

Ça tombe mal, ce sont des québécoises!

[@PaolaZugna67orsolitario]

@@yvespetit2387 manteau d'hiver... naturalment! Merci pour votre attention

[@PaolaZugna67orsolitario]

@@Game_Hero merci beacoup pour la precisazione

[@judykizler4056]

Is there another version of this? I remember a scene showing the cabin surrounded and crowded by tall city buildings. First watched on VCR in the mid-'80s. It doesn't matter -- the animation is captivating and I'm thankful it has been posted here. I return often.

[@charliegirl6]

+Judy Kizler It indeed is a beautiful animation. Believe it or not, the main focus is the chair. It carried families from cradle to grave for generations. It lived long enough to see change from traditional living that ended with industrialisation.

[@Game_Hero]

You might confuse it with his other movies, getting crowded by imposing tall city buildings is a regular theme in his movies.

[@fakecanadien]

wow!

[@oxbowsoup]

Awesome, how come they don't show these in school in Canada? Thanks for putting this video up.

[@davide7931]

they do

[@FamineNoire]

the song name is En passant par les épinettes !

[@BOOOZB]

Frederic Back , the human legend ! (sorry , I can't past my text without this trick ! The direct past doesn't work . I Can't know why !!

[@BOOOZB]

+LEBLEU JULES Humans from each part of our planet,have thrived in a way that is specific to each of these parts .They have developed specific intelligences linked to the problems that each particular nature of each place gave them to solve for their survival and adaptation . From Xhosa storytellers of the Transkei to the French particularity of Quebec, each understanding of the surrounding world is a very reliable answer's element to the huge puzzle of the issues that the global humanity has to solve today . The summation of all these local and reliable features - at the scale of the whole planet - is the sole and only way for the humanity towards finding the right answers. This empirical evidence shows as well , how racism is the antithesis of all smart logical spirit . As if you wanted deny evidences like : " the union is strength "! Fred Back summed us - with an extremely rare art - the whole perception of this hard but very solid human world: this root of old France which became a beautiful tree. The whole of vibrations is too dense ,here,to pass through words . So,Back has found the best appropriate means : musical and graphic languages . The values ​​described as well as the ways used for these descriptions , indicate that , what we call "poetry " - which is a great quality in the radiative perception of the environment - is in Frederic Back's work to the highest level.

[@Yasir_HS]

La Nouvelle-France ❤

[@Game_Hero]

Plus le Québec, je dirais.

[@kajarozz]

There is a sequence (9:02-9:25) that reminds me of Chagall's paintings.

[@fredgagnon3097]

plutôt déçu d'avoir connu ce bijoux à l'âge de 18 ans alors que je suis québecois..... et oui, je suis fière de partager le nom de l'artiste de cette animation

[@guarakwe]

Did you notice that Natives bring babies , not storks . In XVII th and XVIII th cent Abénaki Natives raided their former homeland , New England , captured babies and when they could not bring them back alive to their villages ,they sold the to the French families on their way . You see , we have much ADN in common .

[@geirrrolandsnephew3317]

This is a visual representation of the French-Canadian euphemism "les indiens sont passe en ville" (the indians ran through town) which means a pregnant woman has finally had her baby, and so her 'confinement' had ended (look up 'accouchment' as an ENGLISH word - mustn't let the CHILDREN see a pregnant woman in PUBLIC in those days...) The phrase is a reference to indians of the forest who would run into town and 'doorstep' their own babies when they had no means to care for them. A similar phrase 'Les anglais sont en ville' (Englishmen are in town) is a euphemism for 'the woman of the house is having her period' - just as bitchy as any of us would get if one of those snooty, privileged, elite cultural oppressors decided to impose himself on our household for a few days.

[@dozy4ever]

I'm trying to find more info on this for my classes. Do you know where I could find some resources?