# Kaj Pindal
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{{Short description|Danish-Canadian animator (1927–2019)}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Kaj Pindal
| birth_name = Kaj Gøtzsche Pindal
| image = KajPindalPeepCreator.jpeg
| caption =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1927|12|1|}}
| birth_place = [Copenhagen](/source/Copenhagen), [Denmark](/source/Denmark)
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2019|06|28|1927|12|1}}
| death_place = [Toronto](/source/Toronto), [Canada](/source/Canada)
| occupation = [Animator](/source/Animator), [teacher](/source/teacher)
| years_active = 1940s-2019
| known_for = [Peep and the Big Wide World](/source/Peep_and_the_Big_Wide_World), [What on Earth!](/source/What_on_Earth!_(film))
| style =
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'''Kaj Gøtzsche Pindal''' (December 1, 1927 – June 28, 2019) was a Danish-Canadian animator and animation educator who worked at the [National Film Board of Canada](/source/National_Film_Board_of_Canada) (NFB) beginning in 1957, and created such works as the [Academy Award](/source/Academy_Award)-nominated ''[What on Earth!](/source/What_on_Earth!_(film))'' (1967, co-directed with Les Drew) and the 1988 NFB short ''[Peep and the Big Wide World](/source/Peep_and_the_Big_Wide_World)'' as well as the television series of the same name in 2004.[{{cite encyclopedia | title=Kaj Pindal | encyclopedia=Canadian Film Encyclopedia | publisher=[Toronto International Film Festival](/source/Toronto_International_Film_Festival) | accessdate=June 9, 2012 | location=Toronto | url=http://tiff.net/CANADIANFILMENCYCLOPEDIA/content/bios/kaj-pindal | date= | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120409092848/http://tiff.net/CANADIANFILMENCYCLOPEDIA/content/bios/kaj-pindal | archivedate=April 9, 2012 | url-status=dead }}]
==Biography==
Pindal began his career as an underground cartoonist during the [German occupation of Denmark](/source/German_occupation_of_Denmark), and was forced to flee his home city of [Copenhagen](/source/Copenhagen) when his series of anti-Hitler cartoons put his life in peril. After the [Second World War](/source/Second_World_War), he made animated commercials in [Sweden](/source/Sweden) and at Denmark's [Nordisk Film](/source/Nordisk_Film), and worked on [UNESCO](/source/UNESCO) films and filmstrips. He immigrated to [Canada](/source/Canada) in 1957 and joined the NFB the same year.[{{Cite web|last=Tohana|first=Lindsay|date=2019-07-04|title=Kaj Pindal, 1927-2019|url=https://9story.com/kaj-pindal-1927-2019/|access-date=2021-06-17|website=9 Story Media Group|language=en-US}}][{{cite web | url=https://www.nfb.ca/film/peep_show/ | title=The Peep Show }}] His other NFB credits also include ''The City: Osaka'', created for [Expo '70](/source/Expo_'70) in Osaka, and designed to give Japanese people a glimpse into Canadian life. This two-minute black-and-white film played during the world's fair on a screen composed of sixty thousand individual light bulbs. Pindal is the subject of a 1979 NFB documentary entitled ''Laugh Lines''.[{{cite web | url=http://www.cartoonbrew.com/classic/the-city-osaka-by-kaj-pindal.html | title=Directors You Should Know: Kaj Pindal | work=[Cartoon Brew](/source/Cartoon_Brew) | date=April 27, 2012 | accessdate=June 9, 2012 | author=Amidi, Amid | author-link=Amid Amidi | archive-date=July 3, 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120703015330/http://www.cartoonbrew.com/classic/the-city-osaka-by-kaj-pindal.html | url-status=dead }}]
In addition to his work at the NFB, Pindal returned to Denmark for a year in 1970 and spent several months in 1983 teaching in Denmark and Sweden. He remained an influence in Canadian animation through his involvement with [Sheridan College](/source/Sheridan_College), where he had taught from 1977 to 2019.[Pindal, Kaj. History of Animation, 28 Sept. 1999, Sheridan College. Lecture.]
Pindal died on June 28, 2019, at the age of 91.[{{cite web|url=https://www.animationmagazine.net/people/peep-and-the-big-wide-world-creator-kaj-pindal-dies-at-91/|title='Peep and the Big Wide World' Creator Kaj Pindal Dies at 91|last=Zahed|first=Ramin|date=June 28, 2019|work=Animation Magazine|accessdate=June 28, 2019}}]
==References==
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==External links==
*[http://kajpindal.blogspot.ca/ Kaj Pindal's blog]
*[https://www.lambiek.net/artists/p/pindal_kaj.htm Lambiek Comiclopedia article.]
*[http://sheridananimationfaculty.blogspot.ca/2010/09/kaj-pindal-animation-history-4th-year.html Sheridan Animation Faculty biography]
*{{IMDb name |0683927}}
*[https://www.nfb.ca/directors/kaj-pindal/ Watch films by Kaj Pindal], National Film Board of Canada website
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Category:1927 births
Category:2019 deaths
Category:Danish animators
Category:Danish animated film directors
Category:Danish comics artists
Category:Danish editorial cartoonists
Category:Danish resistance members
Category:People from Copenhagen
Category:Danish emigrants to Canada
Category:National Film Board of Canada people
Category:Academic staff of Sheridan College
Category:Animation educators
Category:Canadian film educators
Category:Canadian editorial cartoonists
Category:Canadian comics artists
Category:Canadian animated film directors
Category:Canadian people of Danish descent
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