Mining the National Film Board of Canada’s Archives

The NFB (National Film Board of Canada) has begun making their vast library of films available on-line. And I couldn’t be happier. Some of my best memories as a kid involve the moments in class when the film projector was wheeled-in, the film was removed from its cannister, mounted threaded through the projector (it was always best to see a large-diameter reel get mounted–that meant more time watching) and we escaped the normal classroom to watch what would inevitably be one NFB production or another.

Here’s the first thing I looked up Log Driver’s Waltz (3 min). The refrain is currently swirling in my head:

And while I was really looking for The Rise and Fall of the Great Lakes, here’s another Bill Mason classic, Waterwalker (86 min):

No sign of Project Grizzly, my all-time favourite documentary, though.