NFB Collection
Every Square Inch
196923 min 25 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Ross McConnell
Script: Bruce Martin
Produced for the NFB by Chetwynd Films Limited for the Surveys and Mapping Branch of Energy, Mines and Resources of Canada.
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Every square inch of Canada, second largest country in the world, has been put on maps, and much of it is being mapped again, even more thoroughly. How such a vast territory is committed to paper is seen in this film, stage by stage: aerial photography; ground surveying with sophisticated instruments and at headquarters, the exacting work of translating, plotting, and printing.
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Subject categories
- Technology > Cartography
- Geography and Geology > Maps and Charts
Credits
- director
- Ross McConnell
- editing
- Ross McConnell
- script
- Bruce Martin
- camera
- Robert Brooks
- sound
- James Robinson
- Tony Scott
- narrator
- Ken Cavanagh