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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.
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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