Collection search - Starting Fire With Gunpowder : [pre-production elements] = Hanson, Ann Meekitjuk - Interview

TAMARACK PRODUCTIONS

2003-0024

Sound

13 of 13

1991-03-10/1991-03-11

Tamarack Productions
National Film Board

Recording consists of original sound rolls used in the production of the documentary film STARTING FIRE WITH GUNPOWDER. Recording includes an interview with Ann Meekitjuk Hanson, Honourary Deputy Commissioner of the Northwest Territories, Inuk filmmaker, and narrator of the film STARTING FIRE WITH GUNPOWDER. Subjects discussed include the impact of television commercials, the history of the Inuit Broadcasting Corporation (IBC), children and television, the IBC's preservation of language, the Inuit's adaptation to technology, radio, sound effects used by Abe Okpik, television innovations by the Inuit, the story behind the film STARTING FIRE WITH GUNPOWDER, preserving the Inuktitut language, Inuit dialects, IBC children's programs, early animated films, SUPER SHAMOU, self government and Inuit broadcasting, improvements to the IBC, and the role of Inuktitut in schools. <3h 15mn>

English / Inuktitut

1A~2A~3A~4A~5A~6A~7A~8A~9A~10A~11A~12A~13A

Open

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