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NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA / OFFICE NATIONAL DU FILM DU CANADA: 1976-1979

1977-0207

Film

Time and Terrain

1 of 1

1948

National Film Board

director/animation/editing, Colin Low; producer, Jim MacKay; scenario, Neil Harris; photography, Lyle Enright; editing, Robert Verrall; narrator, Robert Christie; music, Robert Fleming

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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.

English

ANIMATION

Open

GAD 0FD579

~No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

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