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Record information – Brief Time and Terrain = Le Temps et la terre
Hierarchical level:Item (Accession level)Date:1948Item number (ISN):350991Type of material:Moving imagesFound in:Archives / Film, Video and Sound -
Record information – Details Fonds/collection:NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA / OFFICE NATIONAL DU FILM DU CANADA: 1976-1979Accession:1977-0207Media:FilmOriginal title:Time and TerrainPart:1 of 1Production date:1948Production company:National Film BoardProduction credit:director/animation/editing, Colin Low; producer, Jim MacKay; scenario, Neil Harris; photography, Lyle Enright; editing, Robert Verrall; narrator, Robert Christie; music, Robert FlemingCountry of production:cnDescription:In this study in Canadian geology, the animation artist uses strange cone shapes to represent the volcanoes once covering much of Canada until they crumbled before agelong attacks of rain and wind. A pattern of rivers shows how silt was carried to the ocean until, after eons had passed, the land sank entirely under water except for a stubborn island, the Canadian Shield. Mood music increases the primordial atmosphere of the film, as layers of silt turn to layers of rock under the sea and violent pressures squeeze them suddenly upward to form jagged mountains, striped with twisted and tilted strata. The Ice Age follows. When it has passed, we see the birth of Canada's lakes and rivers. Even today the terrain is subtly altering, as the Earth obeys Nature's one fixed law - perpetual change.Language:EnglishNotes:Technique:ANIMATIONDetailed holdings information: -
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