NFB Collection
The Changing Wheat Belt
196613 min 38 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Joseph Koenig
Production: Joseph Koenig
Script: Harold Arthur
Suitable primarily for classroom study of geography, this film will also attract any audience interested in the wheat farmer's West and what was happening there in the 1960s. Farms are larger and need fewer hands. The drift is to the cities, but wheat still dominates Prairie life.
Subject categories
- Agriculture > Crops - Cultivation and HarvestingPioneersPrairiesSoil and FarmlandWheat
- History - Canada - 1867-1919 > Prairies and Western Canada
Credits
- director
- Joseph Koenig
- producer
- Joseph Koenig
- commentary
- Harold Arthur
- camera
- Robert Nichol
- editing
- Roy Ayton
- sound editing
- Marguerite Payette
- music
- Robert Fleming