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Age of the Buffalo
196414 minFilm: Documentary, Animation
Direction: Austin Campbell
Production: Austin CampbellNicholas Balla
Script: Charles Cohen
A vivid recollection of the free west of the North American Indigenous Peoples and the vast herds of buffalo that once thundered across the plains. From paintings of the mid-1800s, the animation camera creates a most convincing picture of the buffalo hunt, both as the Indigenous People and, disastrously, the white hunters practised it.
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Subject categories
- Environment and Conservation > AnimalsEndangered SpeciesIndigenous ConcernsPrairies
- Indigenous Peoples in Canada (First Nations and Métis) > Fur Trades, Hunting and TrappingHistoryPrairies
- Foreign Countries > Historical PerspectivesUnited States
- Animals > Hunting and TrappingIndigenous ConcernsMammalsStories
- History - Canada - Pre-1867 > Indigenous PeoplesWestern Canada
- Indigenous Peoples outside Canada > United States
Credits
- director
- Austin Campbell
- producer
- Austin Campbell
- executive producer
- Nicholas Balla
- script
- Charles Cohen
- photography
- Wolf Koenig
- animation camera
- James Wilson
- Murray Fallen
- re-recording
- Ron Alexander
- music
- Eldon Rathburn
Awards
- Wrangler Trophy - First Prize - Category: Documentary FilmsWestern Heritage Awards
- Honourable Mention - Silver MedalInternational Children's Film Festival