Opening Speech: The first Montreal World Film festival invited animator Norman McLaren to kick things off. It was an auspicious start. (6:53 minutes)

Gollum’s MTV Award Acceptance Speech : Ceremony organizers dread the performance of some nominees should they win. This is one of them. (1:53 minutes)

Opening Speech
by Norman McLaren

Gollum’s MTV Award Acceptance Speech
by Gollum

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René Walling is a fan of SF, animation and comics, this has led him to co-chair Anticipation, the 2009 Worldcon, be involved with fps magazine for more than a decade, write reviews of francophone short fiction for The Portal, and start Nanopress, a Canadian small press. He looks forward to living on Mars where he would benefit from having more than 24 hours in a day.