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Cry of the Wild
19721 h 28 min 4 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Bill Mason
Production: William Brind
Script: Bill Mason
To hear Bill Mason tell about the making of this feature film (he is also the narrator) is to share with him his affection for his camera-quarry: the big northern timber wolves and pure-white Arctic wolves. What he brings to the screen is some unexcelled film footage and a great depth of lore about these wary, intelligent creatures of the Canadian wilds. Filming was done over three years in the Northwest Territories, British Columbia, the high Arctic, and near his Gatineau Hills (Québec) home where he kept and observed three grown wolves and, eventually, the litter of cubs that provides some of the film's most engaging sequences.
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Subject categories
- Animals > MammalsMountain and Forest Animals
- Science > BiologyEnvironmental Science
- Geography > Physical Geography/Geology
Credits
- director
- Bill Mason
- script
- Bill Mason
- editing
- Bill Mason
- narrator
- Bill Mason
- producer
- William Brind
- photography
- Bill Mason
- Blake James
- sound
- Don Wellington
- sound editing
- John Knight
- re-recording
- Michel Descombes
- music
- Larry Crosley
- Bruce Mackay
- music recording
- Roger Lamoureux