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Return to Vimy
20179 min 5 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Denis McCready
Production: Denis McCreadyJulie Huguet
Script: Denis McCready
Produced by the National Film Board of Canada in partnership with the Vimy Foundation.
A young Canadian woman visits the Vimy Memorial to make a charcoal imprint of the engraved name of her great-grandfather who was lost in battle, bringing with her a notebook of sketches and diary entries that he made during months of preparation for the battle to take back Vimy Ridge. The sketches transform into colourized archive footage and take us back in time to revisit the daily lives of the soldiers of the Canadian Corps, witnessing the long and detailed preparation that lead to this legendary battle.
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Subject categories
- War, Conflict and Peace > Memoirs and MemorialsWorld War I
- Media Education > Documentary FilmDocumentary Film
- History > World War I
Credits
- writer
- Denis McCready
- director
- Denis McCready
- producer
- Denis McCready
- cast
- Chala Hunter
- Raphael Cohen-Demers
- Marianne Goyette
- directing consultant
- Pierre Marier
- animation
- Claude Cloutier
- editing
- Etienne Gagnon
- sound design
- Sylvain Bellemare
- music
- Mathieu G. Dandurand
- colourization of archival material
- François Montpellier
- infographics (animations)
- Keyu Chen
- foley
- Simon Meilleur
- NFB archives
- Ragnhild Milewski
- Lea Nakonechny
- Yvon Larocque
- Josée Riopel
- NFB collection curator
- Albert Ohayon
- film digitization technician
- Aldo La Ricca
- William Holley
- colour timing
- Sylvie Marie Fortier
- restoration
- Sylvie Marie Fortier
- technical support - editing
- Jean Coulombe
- adaptation
- Claude Dionne
- subtitling
- Claude Dionne
- copy editing
- George Kaltsounakis
- head, coordination and project support
- Pierre Ferlatte
- online editing
- Denis Pilon
- infographics
- Mélanie Bouchard
- foley recording
- Geoffrey Mitchell
- narration recording
- Geoffrey Mitchell
- mixing
- Jean Paul Vialard
- administrator
- Isabelle Limoges
- production coordinator
- Gabrielle Dupont
- Marcia Seebaran
- technical coordinator
- Daniel Lord
- Luc Binette
- marketing manager
- Charles Pease
- legal services
- Peter Kallianiotis
- Hugo Barnabé
- executive producer
- Julie Huguet