NFB Collection
The Rising Tide
194929 min 23 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Jean Palardy
Production: James Beveridge
Script: Jean PalardyDonald PetersKathleen McColgan
Produced by the National Film Board of Canada in cooperation with the Provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island and St. Francis Xavier University, Extension Department.
This film shows the growth of cooperatives in the Maritime provinces and how they brought new life and hope to poverty-stricken fishermen. While we glimpse many aspects of the cooperative movement in Cape Breton and all through the Maritimes, the major part of this story deals with the fishing folk (one-sixth of the Maritimes' population) and shows how, thanks to the cooperative effort, fishermen such as Willie Leblanc have come from the hungry, hopeless years of the 1920s to better times.
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Subject categories
- Fishing and Hunting Industries > Atlantic RegionCooperatives
Credits
- director
- Jean Palardy
- script
- Jean Palardy
- producer
- James Beveridge
- camera
- John Foster
- commentary
- Donald Peters
- Kathleen McColgan
- editing
- Donald Peters
- Jean Palardy
- narrator
- John Drainie
- Alan Maitland
- music
- Robert Fleming
Awards
- Special citationGenie Awards