The Dark Years - Episode 2

200746 min 53 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
  • 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
David Fox
Zachary Bennett
Michael Hanrahan
R.H. Thompson
Alex Poch-Goldin
Adrian Egan
Ron White
Ivan Sherry
Corinne Conley
David Sparrow
Adriana Disman
Marc Strange
Benedict Campbell
Richard Binsley
Mitchell Kramer
Micheline Marchildon
Jeff Roop
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
Alexis Victor
production accountant
JC Caveen
Esther Scannel
Bonnie Corey
accounting assistant
Vjera Hlozan
visual research assistant
Sheetal Rawal
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
storyboard
Naeim Khavari
Daniel Lafrance
John Halfpenny
background painter
Clive Powsey
Maureen Paxton
Lynda Lyons
character design
John Halfpenny
art direction
John Halfpenny
additional design
Rex Hackelberg
character builder
Michael Helmer
layouts
Pasquale Lamontagna
traditional animation
Chuck Gammage
Flash animation
Chris Land
Pasquale Lamontagna
Jason Condon
Lisa Whittick
Sean Scott
Sean Wickett
Rachel Peters
Tony Truong
Boris Maras
Robin Hall
Katherine MacDonald
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
Al Piazza
Dante Media Group
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