NFB Collection
Element 3
196646 min 7 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Jacques Giraldeau
Production: André Belleau
Script: Jacques GiraldeauRenée LarochelleDaisy De Bellefeuille
Produced by the National Film Board of Canada in collaboration with UNESCO for the International Hydrological Decade (1965-1974).
Made in 1965 to support UNESCO's campaign for water conservation, this film explores the beauty of this so vulnerable resource and shows how quickly it is dwindling through needless waste, especially in countries best endowed with it. In Egypt the film shows how hard it is to come by water, even today when, within sight of laborious water wheels, a great dam rises. But abused or not, water has extraordinary beauty--in the Zuider Zee, the Rhine, the Volga, the Mississippi, the St. Lawrence, and a hundred other streams shown in this film.
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Subject categories
- Developing Countries > Environment and ConservationFisheries, Forest and Water Resources
- Environment and Conservation > Environmental PerspectivesRivers and Bodies of WaterWater Resources
Credits
- director
- Jacques Giraldeau
- script
- Jacques Giraldeau
- executive producer
- André Belleau
- commentary
- Renée Larochelle
- Jacques Giraldeau
- Daisy De Bellefeuille
- camera
- Gilles Gascon
- sound
- Marcel Carrière
- editing
- Yves Leduc
- sound editing
- Pierre Bernier
- narrator
- Norman Rose
- re-recording
- Ron Alexander
- Roger Lamoureux
- music
- Pierre Mercure
Awards
- Special Award for Colour Cinematography given to Gilles GasconGenie Awards
- Grand Prize for the Cinematographic TechniqueElectronic, Nuclear and Teleradio cinematographic Review
- Trophy of the FestivalFestival du film à format réduit