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The Dark Years - Episode 1
200746 min 58 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
- History - Canada - 1920-1945 > Great Depression
- Economics > Great Depression
- Social Studies > Economics
- History > The Depression Era
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
- Eric Peterson
- David Fox
- Michael Hanrahan
- Zachary Bennett
- Blair Williams
- Ivan Sherry
- Patrick Garrow
- Chuck Shamata
- Jeff Roop
- Drew Nelson
- Martin Doyle
- Elva Mai Hoover
- Jonathan Higgins
- Adrian Egan
- Shaun Austin-Olsen
- Dmitryi Chepovetski
- George R. Robertson
- Chris Earle
- Corinne Conley
- 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
- Brian Schwarz
- production coordinator
- Jeffrey R. Smith
- Jason Lambert
- Julie Otten
- Alexis Victor
- production accountant
- JC Caveen
- Esther Scannel
- Bonnie Corey
- accounting assistant
- Vjera Hlozan
- visual research assistant
- Sheetal Rawal
- Gosia Stechman
- Stefan Tobolka
- 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
- Genna Du Plessis
- background painter
- Clive Powsey
- character design
- John Halfpenny
- art direction
- John Halfpenny
- storyboard
- Chris Land
- Pasquale Lamontagna
- Michael Geiger
- design
- Chris Land
- Rex Hackelberg
- Trevor Deane-Freeman
- character builder
- Michael Helmer
- layout
- Pasquale Lamontagna
- traditional animation
- Chuck Gammage
- Chris Land
- Michael Helmer
- Kyung Hee Baker
- Michelle Heo
- Kenny Yang
- James McCrimmon
- Ron Chevrier
- design assistant
- Michael Helmer
- Kyung Hee Baker
- Michelle Heo
- Kenny Yang
- James McCrimmon
- Ron Chevrier
- traditional effects animation
- Lorenzo Delbianco
- Raymond Pang
- Flash animation
- Chris Land
- Pasquale Lamontagna
- Jason Condon
- Lisa Whittick
- Sean Scott
- Sean Wickett
- Boris Maras
- Robin Hall
- Michael Geiger
- James Stewart
- Paul Teglas
- Jason McArthur
- after effects animation
- Max Piersig
- Diego Bergia
- compositor
- Alexandre Iliach
- Jennifer Duczmal
- Charlie Hughes
- Seamus O'Keefe
- off-line editor
- Al Piazza
- Flash animation assistant
- Eduardo Avenir
- Matthew Kalinauskas
- Tapan Gandhi
- Christina Lau
- pipeline setup
- Gene Dreitser
- pipeline consulting
- Gene Dreitser
- 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