Cory Rivard
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Cartoon show time
As the National Film Board of Canada marks its 70th anniversary this year with its Get Animated! film festival at the Cinematheque, it is the nostalgic images conjured up by those three letters - N, F and B - of flannel-wearing, log-driving ballerinas, psychotic house-destroying cats and Scrabble-loving, apocalypse-ignoring grumpy old men that should drive the children of the ‘80s in droves to this event.