Getting Started

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| name = Getting Started

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| director = Richard Condie

| producer = Jerry Krepakevich

| writer = Richard Condie

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| starring = Jay Brazeau (voice)
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| music = Patrick Godfrey

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| studio = National Film Board of Canada (NFB)

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| released = {{Film date|1979}}

| runtime = 12 minutes

| country = Canada

| language = English

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Getting Started is a 1979 animated short by Richard Condie{{cite web|url=http://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/cartoons-considered-for-an-academy-award-1980/|title=Cartoons Considered For An Academy Award – 1980 -|website=cartoonresearch.com}} and produced in Winnipeg by the National Film Board of Canada.

Summary

The film is a comical look at procrastination, based partly on the filmmaker's own experiences, portraying the inability of a pianist to rehearse a Debussy composition.{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.filmreferencelibrary.ca/index.asp?layid=46&csid1=14&navid=46 |title=Richard Condie |last=Cuthbert |first=Pamela |date=January 2003 |encyclopedia=Canadian Film Encyclopedia |publisher=Film Reference Library |access-date=2009-08-31 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080423072618/http://www.filmreferencelibrary.ca/index.asp?layid=46&csid1=14&navid=46 |archive-date=2008-04-23 }}{{cite book|title=North of everything: English-Canadian cinema since 1980|year=2002|publisher=University of Alberta Press|location=Edmonton|isbn=0-88864-390-X|url=https://archive.org/details/northofeverythin00bear|url-access=registration|quote=Getting Started Condie.|editor=William Beard & Jerry White|access-date=3 November 2011|page=[https://archive.org/details/northofeverythin00bear/page/77 77]}}

Accolades

Awards for Getting Started included the Genie Award for best animation film.{{cite web|url=http://www.onf-nfb.gc.ca/eng/collection/film/?id=13127|title=Getting Started|year=1979|work=Film Collection|publisher=National Film Board of Canada Web site|access-date=2009-08-31}} The film also won awards at the Zagreb World Festival of Animated Films and the Tampere Film Festival, as well as the Bijou Award for Best Animation.