NFB Collection
Down Through the Years
19649 min 29 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Jacques Giraldeau
Production: Marcel MartinVictor Jobin
Script: Jacques Giraldeau
A film without words of Old Montréal, with accompaniment by the Swingle Singers and their unusual and lively interpretations of music by Johann Sebastian Bach. The colour camera gathers together varied impressions of the old city, ancient streets, monuments and memories.
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Subject categories
- Architecture > Historical Sites and MonumentsPublic and Commercial Buildings
- Urbanism > History (Cities and Homes)Montreal and NeighbourhoodsQuébec
- History and Citizenship Education > Modernization of Quebec Society (1929-1980)
- Geography > Territory: Urban
Credits
- director
- Jacques Giraldeau
- script
- Jacques Giraldeau
- executive producer
- Marcel Martin
- Victor Jobin
- photography
- François Séguillon
- sound
- Maurice Blackburn
- re-recording
- Ron Alexander
- Roger Lamoureux