The Move

19855 minFilm: Documentary

Direction: Larry Bauman

Production: Charles KonowalMichael Scott

Script: Larry Bauman

Produced by the National Film Board of Canada with the assistance of CBC Saskatchewan.

After nearly a half-century of use, a Saskatchewan grain elevator is moved across the snow-covered prairie to a new home; from Greenstreet to Marshall, Saskatchewan (about 20 miles away) . The film follows the lifting and transporting of the nine-storey, 200-ton structure, and examines the feelings of the people as they witness the final passing of their town's one and only grain elevator.

Subject categories


  • Agriculture > Prairies

Credits


director
Larry Bauman
writer
Larry Bauman
editing
Larry Bauman
producer
Charles Konowal
executive producer
Michael Scott
cinematography
Larry Bauman
Charles Konowal
sound
Leon Johnson
Donald List
sound editing
Carol Wenaus