Rye on the Rocks = Cultivos sobre roras = Roggen auf Gestein = Ruis Kasvaa Kiven Päällä = Rug fa Klippene

INCO LIMITED

1986-0384

Film

Rye on the Rocks

1 of 1

1968

1968

original version
Westminster Films Limited

director/producer, Don Haldane; script, Tod Greenaway; photography, George Balogh; editing, Jacke Morbin; music, Ron Collier; camera assistant, Arthur Campus; production assistant, Fran Rosati

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The International Nickel Company of Canada, Limited

The International Nickel Company of Canada, Limited

This film tells the story of Inco's efforts to reclaim the mill tailings of the Sudbury area in the 1950s and 1960s. The make-up and formation of the tailings is explained, as are early attempts and failures in their reclamation. Clare Young, head of the company's agricultural department and the man in charge of the project, is introduced and narrates the balance of the film. He tells of various temporary and inadequate solutions and introduces Tom Peters whose job it was to find a permanent one. Footage shows experiments with weeds, Japanese Bamboo, twitchgrass, mosses, grass, flowers, and hydroponics; seeding and plowing the tailings; and a harvest of winter rye which now covers the rocky tailings. <14mn>

English

Open

V1 8907-0019

No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

With written permission of Donor / Avec la permission écrite du donateur