NFB Collection
Above the Horizon
196420 min 54 secFilm: Documentary, Children's film
Direction: Roman KroitorHugh O'Connor
Production: Roman KroitorHugh O'ConnorTom Daly
Script: Stanley Jackson
Produced by the NFB for the American Meteorological Society through the Canadian Commercial Corporation.
An exciting exploration of weather and how we may one day learn to control it. For this film a great deal of extraordinary colour footage of the sky was put together, including a demonstration of rain-making. There are views of the geysers of the sun, of bright streamers of northern lights, of wind-stirred clouds, and even of the awesome fury of a hurricane.
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Subject categories
- Sciences > Climate and WeatherResearch
Credits
- director
- Roman Kroitor
- Hugh O'Connor
- producer
- Roman Kroitor
- Hugh O'Connor
- executive producer
- Tom Daly
- commentary
- Stanley Jackson
- cinematography
- Jean Roy
- animation
- Sidney Goldsmith
- re-recording
- Ron Alexander
- music
- Eldon Rathburn
- sound
- Victor Merrill
Awards
- First Prize - Category: Didactic FilmsInternational Survey of Scientific and Didactic Films
- Award of Merit - Category: Films for ChildrenGenie Awards
- Orbit AwardANZAAS
- Diploma of HonourInternational Exhibition of Scientific Films
- Mention for popularization of a scientific subjectInternational Scientific Film Festival
- Gold Rocket - Great Prize for the Filmmaking Technique and Best Film in the Scientific CategoryElectronic, Nuclear and Teleradio cinematographic Review