Continental Drift

19689 min 53 secFilm: Animation

Direction: Co Hoedeman

Production: Joseph Koenig

Script: Co Hoedeman

An exposition through film animation of the theory that Earth's land areas are fluid and that, in the process of a slow, rolling, boiling motion, one part of the Earth might well be engulfed and then rise again some distance away, much the same as froth on a kettle of soup. From this theory comes the idea that continents were formed from one super-continent that broke up, whose pieces sank, and then rose once more, but far apart. Introducing the film is Professor J. Tuzo Wilson, geophysicist, University of Toronto.

Subject categories


  • Geography and Geology > Origins of the Earth
  • Science > Earth Science and Geology
  • Geography > Physical Geography/Geology

Credits


director
Co Hoedeman
script
Co Hoedeman
animation
Co Hoedeman
producer
Joseph Koenig
animation camera
Claude Lapierre
Raymond Dumas
editing
Christopher Cordeaux