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Canadian Diamonds
196029 min 26 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: René BonnièrePierre Perrault
Script: Pierre PerraultJudith Crawley
Produced by Crawley Films Limited for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
This title is an acquisition.
When Cartier wintered at Cap Rouge near Québec City in 1541, he claimed to have detected diamonds in the surrounding hills. Was he so very wrong? Three centuries later, 15,000 men have come to excavate the iron mountains of the Canadian tundra where the rust of those diamonds still sparkles.
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Subject categories
- Mining > Mining CommunitiesNon-metalsProspecting, Extraction and MiningQuébec
Credits
- director
- René Bonnière
- Pierre Perrault
- text
- Pierre Perrault
- English text
- Judith Crawley
- photography
- Michel Thomas-d'Hoste
- Frank Stokes
- sound
- Tony Betts
- David Howells
- sound editing
- John Knight
- narrator
- Lloyd Bochner
- music
- Larry Crosley