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The Dark Years - Episode 3
200746 min 20 secFilm: Animation
Direction: Steven Silver
Production: Laszlo Barna Chuck Gammage Animation Inc.Gerry FlahiveSteven SilverSilva Basmajian
Script: Steve Lucas
Produced by Barna-Alper Productions Inc. in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada, in association with History Television, with the participation of the Canadian Television Fund, with the assistance of the Canadian Film or Television Tax Credit and the Ontario Film and Television Tax Credits.
A look at the impact of the Great Depression years on Canada and its people. What started with an economic crash in 1929 would end only with the guns of World War II. Of the many stories and legacies of the Great Depression, perhaps its greatest is that it created a modern Canada: more questioning of the power of government, inclined toward social policies like welfare and health care, and prepared to play a role in international affairs and economies.
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Subject categories
- Economics > Great Depression
- History - Canada - 1920-1945 > Great Depression
- Media Education > Film AnimationJournalism/News
- English Language Arts > Journalism
Credits
- director
- Steven Silver
- animation director
- John Halfpenny
- Firas Momani
- writer
- Steve Lucas
- producer
- Laszlo Barna
- Chuck Gammage Animation Inc.
- Gerry Flahive
- executive producer
- Laszlo Barna
- Steven Silver
- Silva Basmajian
- original idea
- Sydney Suissa
- story producer
- Barbara Sears
- animation services
- Chuck Gammage Animation Inc.
- cast
- Maury Chaykin
- David Fox
- Eric Peterson
- Michael Hanrahan
- Fiona Reid
- James Rankin
- Ron Lea
- Adrian Egan
- Marc Strange
- Blair Williams
- Chris Earl
- Patrick Garrow
- Dave Broadfoot
- Micheline Marchildon
- Brendan Wall
- David Sparrow
- Andy Velasquez
- René Lemieux
- Judy Sinclair
- Grey Powell
- Danny Wells
- Addison Bell
- editor
- Nick Hector
- sound design
- Daniel Pellerin
- James Mark Stewart
- mixing supervisor
- Daniel Pellerin
- music composer
- Mark Korven
- Cathy Nosaty
- series producer
- Janice Tufford
- line production
- Sarah James
- casting director
- Lisa Baylin
- camera
- Richard A. Stringer
- original research
- Barbara Sears
- head of visual research
- Elspeth Domville
- visual researcher
- Mark Faassen
- Kathie McKenna
- post-production supervisor
- Sean Frewer
- online editor
- Kevin Vienneau
- sound editor
- Geoff Raffan
- Daniel Hamood
- production coordinator
- Jeffrey R. Smith
- Jason Lambert
- Julie Otten
- production accountant
- JC Caveen
- Esther Scannel
- Bonnie Corey
- accounting assistant
- Vjera Hlozan
- visual research assistant
- Sheetal Rawal
- sound editing assistant
- Rob Hutchins
- re-recording mixer
- Jan Rudy
- foley artist
- Stefan Fraticelli
- foley recordist
- Randy Wilson
- mixing facility
- Theatre D Digital
- voice recording studio
- Media Fusion
- foley studio
- JRS Productions
- animation producer
- France Daigle
- storyboard
- Naeim Khavari
- John Flagg
- Louis Solis
- John Halfpenny
- background painter
- Clive Powsey
- Maureen Paxton
- Lynda Lyons
- Mei Tsao
- character design
- John Halfpenny
- art direction
- John Halfpenny
- additional design
- Rex Hackelberg
- character builder
- Michael Helmer
- Boris Maras
- layouts
- Pasquale Lamontagna
- traditional animation
- Chuck Gammage
- traditional animation assistant
- Kenny Yang
- Flash animation
- Jason Condon
- Chris Hudson
- Tony Truong
- Pasquale Lamontagna
- Chris Land
- Louis Solis
- Katherine MacDonald
- Boris Maras
- Robin Hall
- Lisa Whittick
- Sean Wickett
- Rachel Peters
- James Stewart
- Flash animation assistant
- Tapan Gandhi
- Matthew Kalinauskas
- Eduardo Avenir
- Christina Lau
- compositor
- Alexandre Iliach
- Jennifer Duczmal
- Charlie Hughes
- Seamus O'Keefe
- off-line editor
- Dante Media Group
- Al Piazza
- head of documentary production
- Pim van der Toorn
- post-production accounting
- Marina Godovich
- executive assistant
- Cassandra Colbere
- Samir Mohamedali
- Rayne Zukerman
- business affairs
- Julie Fitz-Gerald
- Julie Venerus
- Vanessa Steinmetz
- Philip Svoboda
- vice-president of business affairs
- Elysse Goldman
- general counsel
- Elysse Goldman
- vice-president of production
- Nicole Butler
- vice-president of programming
- Loren Mawhinney
- supervising executive
- Margaret O'Brien