Leaf made her first film , '' Sand , or Peter and the Wolf '' , in 1969 at Harvard University . The short was made by dumping sand on a light box and manipulating the textures frame-by-frame . Her second film , '' Orfeo '' , had her painting directly on glass under the camera . Later that year she was invited to join the National Film Board of Canada 's English Animation Studio . During her first year and a half of working at the NFBC , she lived in the Arctic . There she studied and collaborated with an Inuit artist to complete her third film , '' The Owl Who Married a Goose : An Eskimo Legend '' . In this short animation , the character 's speak Inuktitut which was seen as representative of Canadian culture . Her most renowned short film was '' The Street , '' which was produced with a mix of paint and glycerin . It was adapted from the short story of the same name by Mordechai Richler , which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 49th Academy Awards
49th Academy Awards
49th Academy Awards
Caroline Leaf