Moving Plates and Continents

19722 min 43 secFilm: Documentary

Produced for the NFB by International Cinémedia Centre Ltd. for Museum of Natural Sciences, National Museums of Canada.

This title is an acquisition.

This film explains plate tectonics, the theory that the earth's solid outer crust is made up of a number of plates that "float" on the molten, heavier rock below them, moving about and at times colliding with each other.

Subject categories


  • Geography and Geology > Origins of the Earth