NFB Collection
The Contour Connection
198327 min 30 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Colin Low
Production: Michael McKennireyBarrie Howells
Co-produced by the NFB and Energy, Mines and Resources Canada, Surveys and Mapping Branch.
In this short film about the history of map-making and computer applications in modern cartography, Hull teacher Peter MacLeod demonstrates his hands-on approach to teaching. On field trips, MacLeod and students don period clothing and experiment with antique map-making tools; they tour the Surveys and Mapping branch of Energy, Mines and Resources in Ottawa to find out about digital mapping and observe the Gestalt photomapper. In class, they experiment with stereoscopic viewers and build a styrofoam contour model of an area in the Gatineau Hills. An ideal film to complement geography courses at the secondary level.
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Subject categories
- Technology > CartographyComputer Technology, Internet and Electronics
- Geography and Geology > Maps and ChartsTeaching Material
Credits
- director
- Colin Low
- producer
- Michael McKennirey
- editing
- Michael McKennirey
- executive producer
- Barrie Howells
- camera
- Ernest McNabb
- sound
- Bev Davidson
- sound editing
- Julian Olson
- re-recording
- Hans Peter Strobl
- animation
- Sidney Goldsmith
- narrator
- Walter Massey
- music
- André Vincelli
- cast
- Ben Lev
- Tom Rack