NFB Collection
This Is My Invention
196722 min 55 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Herb Taylor
Script: David Mayerovitch
Produced by Crawley Films Ltd. for the Patent and Trade Mark Institute of Canada.
This title is an acquisition.
An entertaining history of invention, showing how Canadian inventors protect their brain children through Canada's Patent and Trade Mark Institute. The film illustrates what a patentable invention is, and how it is investigated to ensure that it is really new. Some recent Canadian inventions that have found world markets are shown. A film for all who invent things and all whose lives are improved by new inventions.
Subject categories
- Technology > Invention
Credits
- director
- Herb Taylor
- script
- David Mayerovitch
- camera
- Stanley Brede
- Robert Ennis
- sound
- David Cochrane
- Robert Leclair
- editing
- Margaret Chandler
- animation
- Vic Atkinson