Kaj Gøtzsche Pindal (December 1, 1927 – June 28, 2019) was a Danish-Canadian animator and animation educator who worked at the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) beginning in 1957, and created such works as the Academy Award-nominated What on Earth!

(1967, co-directed with Les Drew) and the 1988 NFB short Peep and the Big Wide World as well as the television series of the same name in 2004.

[1] Kaj Pindal began his career as an underground cartoonist during the German occupation of Denmark, and was forced to flee his home city of Copenhagen when his series of anti-Hitler cartoons put his life in peril.

This two-minute black-and-white film played during the world's fair on a screen composed of sixty thousand individual light bulbs.

He remained an influence in Canadian animation through his involvement with Sheridan College, where he had taught from 1977 to 2019.