The Continuing Past

196624 min 3 secFilm: Documentary

Direction: Stephen Ford

Production: Guy Glover

Script: Arthur Hammond

Produced by the National Film Board of Canada for the Canadian Department of Energy, Mines and Resources.

Shows how modern equipment and methods are used by the Geological Survey of Canada (Department of Energy, Mines and Resources) to answer the riddle of the Earth's beginning and what lies below-ground. Rock samples of paper thinness, the spectrograph and the spectrometer, polarized light, chemical analysis--research techniques of many kinds and purposes are demonstrated in this film of geological discovery.

Subject categories


  • Geography and Geology > Geological Perspectives
  • Politics and Government - Canada > Government Agencies, Programs and Services
  • Technology > Research

Credits


director
Stephen Ford
producer
Guy Glover
script
Arthur Hammond
camera
Ray Densham
Jean Chouinard
sound
Hans Oomes
editing
Arthur Lipsett
Stephen Ford
sound editing
Don Wellington
music
Robert Fleming