Next Generation

198210 min 19 secFilm: Documentary

Direction: Stephen Low

Production: Roger HartRobert Verrall

Produced by the NFB in cooperation with Industry, Trade and Commerce Canada.

Superb aerial photography documents the rigorous test program of the Challenger, Canadair's new corporate jet. The film transmits the excitement and enormous risk involved in pushing a new plane to its limits. How will it respond? What is its breaking point? Above all, the film is a lyrical hommage to the beauty of flight, and to man's technological genius.

Subject categories


  • Transportation > Aircraft and Aviation
  • Technology > Aviation

Credits


director
Stephen Low
editing
Stephen Low
producer
Roger Hart
executive producer
Robert Verrall
photography
Barry Perles
Savas Kalogeras
Cliff Symons
Susan Trow
sound
Jacques Drouin
Richard Nichol
sound editing
Bernard Bordeleau
music
Ben Low