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* MatchCut: Charlie, on the boardwalk, strikes a match to light his cigarette. Cut to a fire breaking out on the ''Mont-Blanc'' in the harbor.
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* SilenceIsGolden: No dialogue in the cartoon.
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* SilenceIsGolden: No dialogue in the cartoon.cartoon.
* WaterIsAir: The whimsical ending finds a dazed fish lying on the harbor bottom, gasping--and then shows Charlie lying next to the fish, gasping in the same way. And his cigarette is still clamped between his teeth, and still burning.
* WaterIsAir: The whimsical ending finds a dazed fish lying on the harbor bottom, gasping--and then shows Charlie lying next to the fish, gasping in the same way. And his cigarette is still clamped between his teeth, and still burning.
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* GoIntoTheLight: The camera leaves Earth, going from Charlie flying in the air to deep space. A flesh-colored ball that is meant to suggest Charlie heads for a spiral galaxy, eventually plunging into a ball of fire in the center--but of course Charlie didn't actually die, so he's then shown zooming back to Nova Scotia.
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* MyLifeFlashedBeforeMyEyes: As Charlie goes flying through the air, his life flashes before his eyes in a series of clips: memories of his mom, memories of him as a boy playing in a field, memories of Charlie as sailor getting into a fight with another sailor, and more.
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* BladeOfGrassCut: A live-action shot of a bee pollinating a flower represents one of Charlie's childhood memories.
* ClothingDamage: A non-fanservice example, as a heavyset sailor has all his clothes blasted off him as he's thrown into the air by a massive explosion. (In RealLife, when Charlie Mayers came to he was wearing nothing but his boots.)
* ClothingDamage: A non-fanservice example, as a heavyset sailor has all his clothes blasted off him as he's thrown into the air by a massive explosion. (In RealLife, when Charlie Mayers came to he was wearing nothing but his boots.)
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* NakedPeopleAreFunny: It's played for wry comedy as the sailor is shown flying through the air in the nude after his clothes were blasted off him.
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''The Flying Sailor'' is an animated short film (8 minutes) directed by Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby, and produced by the Creator/NationalFilmBoardOfCanada.
It is based on a RealLife tragic accident, the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Explosion Halifax Explosion]] of December 6, 1917. Two cargo ships, the SS ''Mont-Blanc'' and the SS ''Imo'', collided in the harbor of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Unfortunately, the ''Mont-Blanc'' was carrying a cargo of high explosives. The ''Mont-Blanc'' caught fire and exploded, in what was at that time the biggest man-made explosion in history. The entire neighborhood was destroyed and nearly 1800 people were killed.
The film tells the story of a sailor, Charlie Mayers. Mayers was watching the ships and the fire when the ''Mont-Blanc'' exploded and he was thrown into the air. The film stretches the few seconds in which Mayers was flying through the air into nearly the whole cartoon, as Charlie goes on a dreamlike, surreal journey through time and space while his life flashes before his eyes.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Accounts of the story of Third Officer Charles Mayers say that he was on the deck of his ship, the ''Middleton Castle'', when he was blasted into the air by the explosion, and that he was thrown something between 800m and 1 km. This film has him on the boardwalk, and thrown two kilometers.
* BasedOnATrueStory: The RealLife Halifax explosion, and how a sailor was thrown into the air by the force of the blast and flew something like two kilometers, and survived. The film has a chyron that says "A True Story".
* FalseCameraEffects: The moment of the explosion is shown in a rapid montage that includes quick shots showing a flying camera and damaged film.
* ScareChord: Jaunty, peppy music suggesting a sea shanty is suddenly interrupted by a scare chord when the cartoon shows that the ''Mont-Blanc'' is carrying a whole bunch of explosives.
* SilenceIsGolden: No dialogue in the cartoon.
It is based on a RealLife tragic accident, the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Explosion Halifax Explosion]] of December 6, 1917. Two cargo ships, the SS ''Mont-Blanc'' and the SS ''Imo'', collided in the harbor of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Unfortunately, the ''Mont-Blanc'' was carrying a cargo of high explosives. The ''Mont-Blanc'' caught fire and exploded, in what was at that time the biggest man-made explosion in history. The entire neighborhood was destroyed and nearly 1800 people were killed.
The film tells the story of a sailor, Charlie Mayers. Mayers was watching the ships and the fire when the ''Mont-Blanc'' exploded and he was thrown into the air. The film stretches the few seconds in which Mayers was flying through the air into nearly the whole cartoon, as Charlie goes on a dreamlike, surreal journey through time and space while his life flashes before his eyes.
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!!Tropes:
* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Accounts of the story of Third Officer Charles Mayers say that he was on the deck of his ship, the ''Middleton Castle'', when he was blasted into the air by the explosion, and that he was thrown something between 800m and 1 km. This film has him on the boardwalk, and thrown two kilometers.
* BasedOnATrueStory: The RealLife Halifax explosion, and how a sailor was thrown into the air by the force of the blast and flew something like two kilometers, and survived. The film has a chyron that says "A True Story".
* FalseCameraEffects: The moment of the explosion is shown in a rapid montage that includes quick shots showing a flying camera and damaged film.
* ScareChord: Jaunty, peppy music suggesting a sea shanty is suddenly interrupted by a scare chord when the cartoon shows that the ''Mont-Blanc'' is carrying a whole bunch of explosives.
* SilenceIsGolden: No dialogue in the cartoon.
