NFB Collection
Double Heritage
195930 minFilm: Documentary
Direction: Richard Gilbert
Production: Thomas FarleyPeter Jones
Script: Stuart NutterWilliam Weintraub
Produced by the National Film Board of Canada with the cooperation of the Canadian Department of Transport and the Royal Canadian Air Force.
The great unmapped territories of the Canadian North and the impetus of war are reviewed in this film. This is the story of the barnstormers and bush pilots who explored Canada's vast hinterland, and of the heroes of World War II who flew the Bolingbrokes and the Ansons, the Mosquitoes and the Hurricanes. Part two of Salute to Flight.
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Subject categories
- Transportation > Aeronautics and AerospaceAircraft and AviationHistorical PerspectivesMilitary Aircraft and Airfields
- Technology > AviationHistorical Perspectives
- War, Conflict and Peace > MilitarismWorld War II
- History > World History
- History > Canada 1946-1991World War II
Credits
- director
- Richard Gilbert
- producer
- Thomas Farley
- executive producer
- Peter Jones
- script
- Stuart Nutter
- William Weintraub
- camera
- John Foster
- Ray Jones
- sound
- Michel Belaieff
- André Hourlier
- editing
- Kirk Jones
- sound editing
- Kenneth Heeley-Ray
- Michael McKennirey
- music
- Malca Gillson