The rising tide

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Movie
Original title The rising tide
Country of production Canada
original language English
Publishing year 1949
length 30 minutes
Rod
Director Jean Palardy
script Jean Palardy
production James Beveridge
music Robert Fleming
camera John Foster
cut Jean Palardy
Donald Peters
occupation

The Rising Tide is a Canadian documentary - short film by Jean Palardy, which was first published in 1949. At the Academy Awards in 1950 he was nominated for an Oscar .

content

The film takes a look at cooperatives that help people in maritime provinces to regain hope and, above all, that fishermen who are at risk of poverty have a new perspective.

West coast of Cape Breton Island

The growth of cooperatives on the North Atlantic located Cape Breton Island , where about one-sixth of the population lives from fishing, it allows the people living there to the hopeless 1920s again better times to look forward to. The fisherman Willie Leblanc is presented as an example.

production

The production company was the National Film Board of Canada (NFB).

Awards

The St. Francis-Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia was nominated with the film at the Academy Awards 1950 in the category "Best Documentary Short Film" for an Oscar, which, however, went to Richard de Rochemont and the film A Chance to Live and Edward Selzer and the movie So Much for So Little went.

The film received a special mention at the Canadian Film Awards on April 19, 1950 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. The Rising Tide (1949) at letterboxd.com (English)
  2. The 22nd Academy Awards | 1950 at oscars.org (English)
  3. The Rising Tide at onf-nfb.gc.ca.en (English)