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Jacks or Better
198218 min 12 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: David Geddes
Production: Raymond HallGeorge JohnsonJohn Taylor
Artist Char Davies' vision of logging expressed in images celebrating the magnificence of the British Columbia forest. This film challenges the myth that stereotypes loggers as insensitive to the act of felling trees. It leaves its audience mindful of our power over the forest and of our responsibility to it as a living natural resource.
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Subject categories
- Visual Arts > Artistic ExpressionsWestern Canada
- Forestry > British ColumbiaLogging
Credits
- director
- David Geddes
- photography
- David Geddes
- producer
- Raymond Hall
- editing
- Raymond Hall
- executive producer
- George Johnson
- John Taylor
- sound
- Richard Patton
- sound editing
- Cal Shumiatcher
- re-recording
- Paul Sharpe
- music
- J. Douglas Dodd