Cornet at Night
A memory of boyhood on a northern Saskatchewan farm.
Based on a short story by Sinclair Ross, this short film recalls rural life on the Prairies in the 1930s. In the film a farmer's young son, sent to town to hire a man for the harvest, readily accepts when an itinerant trumpet player, down on his luck, begs a chance. He is hardly the kind of man the boy's father had in mind, but that night his trumpet speaks from the shadows and everyone pauses to listen.
- Year: 1963
- Country: Canada
- Genre: Drama, Family
- Studio: ONF | NFB
- Keyword: saskatchewan, boyhood, short film, adaptation
- Director: Stanley Jackson
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