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Man Against a Fungus
195538 minFilm: Documentary
Direction: Maurice Constant
Production: Guy Glover
Script: Maurice Constant
Produced by the National Film Board of Canada with the cooperation of the Laboratories of Plant Pathology and Cereal Breeding of the Canadian Department of Agriculture.
This film dramatically portrays a struggle that is waged annually in wheat-growing areas--man against the wheat rust fungus. Views of the destruction caused during rust epidemics emphasize the urgency with which plant pathologists are endeavoring to breed resistant wheats and, eventually, to annihilate the blight. Animation, time-lapse photography and cinephotomicrography illustrate the life cycle of the fungus and the complex alternation of generations which poses one of the chief problems.
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Subject categories
- Plants > AgriculturePests and Pest ControlScience and Research
- Agriculture > Crops - Cultivation and HarvestingPests and Pest ControlResearchWheat
Credits
- director
- Maurice Constant
- script
- Maurice Constant
- producer
- Guy Glover
- photography
- Grant Crabtree
- cinephotomicrography
- J.V. Durden
- Maurice Constant
- time-lapse cinematography
- J.V. Durden
- Maurice Constant
- editing
- J.V. Durden
- sound
- George Croll
- animation
- Barry Helmer
- narrator
- Geoffrey Hogwood
- William Needles
- music
- Louis Applebaum
Awards
- Award of ExcellenceBiological Photographic Association of America Exhibition