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Figure Skating
196414 min 33 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Ernest Reid
Production: Ernest ReidPeter Jones
Script: Ted Greenaway
Produced by the National Film Board of Canada for the Canadian Department of National Health and Welfare.
An invitation to experience the thrill of spinning, jumping, skimming, and dancing on winged feet. The film shows how Canada's champions do it. Maria and Otto Jelinek, Don Jackson, Wendy Griner and Don McPherson appear briefly in dazzling exhibition, but the main object of the film is to show that figure skating is for everyone--children, young people, and adults.
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Subject categories
- Sports and Leisure - Winter Sports > Figure SkatingPortraits
Credits
- director
- Ernest Reid
- producer
- Ernest Reid
- editing
- Ernest Reid
- executive producer
- Peter Jones
- script
- Ted Greenaway
- camera
- Robert Humble
- sound editing
- Marguerite Payette
- re-recording
- Ron Alexander
Awards
- Blue Ribbon Award - Category: Sports, Recreation, Physical EducationItinerant - American Film and Video Festival
- Silver MedalInternational Sports Film Festival