NFB Collection
Survival in the Bush
195430 minFilm: Documentary
Direction: Bernard Devlin
Production: Robert Anderson
A demonstration of how a little basic woodlore can save a life. In the film, an NFB producer and Algonquin guide Angus Baptiste allow themselves to be marooned in the bush with only an axe and their wits as means of survival. They eat off the land, build their own birchbark canoe, and make their way out.
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Subject categories
- Safety > Survival Methods
- Physical Education > Outdoor Education
Credits
- director
- Bernard Devlin
- producer
- Robert Anderson
- narrator
- Robert Anderson
- photography
- Doug McKay
- editing
- David Mayerovitch
- Angus Baptiste