Great Lakes

194220 minFilm: Documentary

Direction: Radford CrawleyDonald Fraser

Production: Radford CrawleyStuart Legg

Co-produced by the NFB and Crawley Films Ltd.

The Great Lakes are shown as a great industrial region with an immense amount of diversified cargo flowing along the shipping routes that lie between Canada and the United States. It is the shipping theme that links together short sequences on the industrial life of the Great Lakes: steel production, pulp manufacture, ship-building, grain storage, and the workings of the huge locks of one of the most vital canal systems in the world.

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Subject categories

  • Transportation > Boating and ShippingCanals and BridgesFreight TransportationPorts and Waterways
  • Industry and Commerce > Industrial DevelopmentOntarioRegional Development

Credits

director
Radford Crawley
Donald Fraser
camera
Radford Crawley
Donald Fraser
producer
Radford Crawley
executive producer
Stuart Legg

Awards

  • Blue Ribbon AwardItinerant - American Film and Video Festival