Marcel Gaudart

He had started his film and sound career after the Second World War, when he was recording interviews and plays for some European radio broadcasters.

As a French producer in Canada, Marc Gaudart was responsible for this series of fifteen-minute fables with animal characters, based on stories by the 17th century poet La Fontaine.

The films employed the talents of animals from the farm of Lorna Jackson in Mount Albert, Ontario.

Cinematographer Fritz Spiess had to spend "hours studying each of the animals used in the series to get to know the different problems posed by each--such as a mouse who refused to ride in canoes, a bored monkey who was fascinated by studio wires and rafters, and a rabbit who became so fond of sitting in a jeep that he refused to get out and race with a turtle".

The adage, "Time goes by but memory remains" is the reason why his granddaughter Nadine Taschler[5] has worked on a 16mm documentary film called "Les Fables de Monsieur Gaudart"[6] which was planned for release in 2012.