NFB Collection
The Snow War
197925 min 23 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Harold Tichenor
Production: Harold TichenorPeter Haynes
Produced for the NFB by Cinetel Film Productions Ltd. for the Canadian Department of Indian and Northern Affairs and Parks Canada.
This title is an acquisition.
This film describes the efforts of a mobile avalanche-control team to keep open the important Rogers Pass, situated in Glacier National Park, British Columbia. The film describes, in a visually exciting and dramatic way, the range of methods employed by the team: shear tests, snow profiles, blast tests. The climax of the film comes during a quasi-military operation involving the deliberate triggering of avalanches.
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Subject categories
- Safety > Avalanches, Snow and Winter SafetyDisaster Control and ReliefMountaineering Safety
- Technology > Climate-related Technology
Credits
- producer
- Harold Tichenor
- Peter Haynes
- director
- Harold Tichenor
- narrator
- Normand Seguin
- camera
- Swami Veet Parajayo
- Trig Singer
- Bruno Engler
- music
- Roger Deegan
- editing
- Barry Freeman