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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.
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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