North Shore (1949 film)

North Shore (French: La Terre de Caïn) is a Canadian short documentary film, directed by Pierre Petel and released in 1949.[1] The film depicts life along the St. Lawrence River in the Côte-Nord region of Quebec.

North Shore
La Terre de Caïn
Directed byPierre Petel
Produced byJames Beveridge
Written byPierre Petel
StarringRené Lecavalier
Fred Davis
Max Ferguson
Music byMaurice Blackburn
CinematographyJulien St-Georges
Production
company
National Film Board
Release date
1949
Running time
21 min.
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish
French

The film was released in both French and English versions, with French narration by René Lecavalier and English narration by Fred Davis and Max Ferguson.

The film won the Canadian Film Award for Best Theatrical Short in 1950.[2] Petel also won an award from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts for "Excursion in the Mingan Islands", a painting of rock formations in the Mingan Islands that he created while working on the film.[3]

References

  1. C. Rodney James, Film as a National Art: NFB of Canada and the Film Board Idea. Arno Press, 1977. p. 283.
  2. Wyndham Wise, Take One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film. University of Toronto Press, 2015. ISBN 9781442656208.
  3. "Pierre Petel Wins Award for Painting". Ottawa Journal. March 15, 1950. p. 14. Retrieved May 23, 2018 via Newspapers.com.


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