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A Tree Is a Living Thing
196410 min 43 secFilm: Documentary, Children's film
Direction: Vincent Vaitiekunas
Production: René JodoinFrank Spiller
Script: Stanley Jackson
For all children, but especially for those studying natural science in elementary grades, this film shows an aspect of life they will understand and enjoy. A motion picture camera linked to a high-powered microscope shows the miracle of the leaf as it turns sunlight into chlorophyll. The film also shows how a tree feeds, breathes, and grows.
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Subject categories
- Sciences > Children's Materials
- Plants > Trees and Forests
Credits
- director
- Vincent Vaitiekunas
- producer
- René Jodoin
- executive producer
- Frank Spiller
- script
- Stanley Jackson
- narration
- Stanley Jackson
- photography
- Grant Crabtree
- Sidney Beadle
- editing
- Lucien Marleau
- sound
- George Croll
- sound editing
- Sidney Pearson
- consultant
- Auray Blain