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The Rise and Fall of the Great Lakes
196816 min 40 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Bill Mason
Production: Joseph Koenig
Script: Bill Mason
A lesson in geography, which concludes that although the Great Lakes have had their ups and downs, nothing has been harder to take than what humans have done to them lately. In the film, a lone canoeist lives through the changes of geological history, through Ice Age and flood, only to find himself in the end trapped in a sea of scum.
Availability
Subject categories
- Environment and Conservation > Freshwaters and MarshlandsPollution
- Geography and Geology > Geological PerspectivesOntarioWaters and Flooding
- Science > Environmental Science
- Geography > Physical Geography/Geology
Credits
- director
- Bill Mason
- writer
- Bill Mason
- photography
- Bill Mason
- editing
- Bill Mason
- animation
- Bill Mason
- producer
- Joseph Koenig
- animation camera
- Kjeld Nielsen
- sound editing
- Alex Rayment
- re-recording
- Roger Lamoureux
- Michel Descombes
- music
- Bruce Mackay
- Robert Fleming
- cast
- Blake James
Awards
- Electra Certificate Award - Category: Business and Industry / videotapeInternational Educational Film Festival
- First Place - Category: DocumentarySODRE International Festival of Documentary and experimental Films
- Diploma of MeritInternational Film Festival on the Human Environment
- Special Award for Best Film of the YearCanadian Amateur Film Association
- Certificate of MeritCanadian Amateur Film Association
- Winsted Rotary Club Award to Canada for the Best MovieInternational Environmental Pollution Exhibition
- Gold Statuette - First Prize - Category: Scientific FilmsInternational Educational Film Festival
- Certificate of MeritIsraeli Film Festival
- First Prize - Category: EducationalYorkton Film Festival
- Best Specialized FilmBAFTA / British Academy Film Awards