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.
YES. totally awesome. i have the log-driver’s chorus in my head now without even having listened to it.
may i recommend the completely devastating If You Love This Planet? saw this in a feminism and film course i took in my undergrad, and it has never left me.