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Poster for Land for Pioneers (1944)

Land for Pioneers (1944)

1944 · Ephemeral film · 14 min · dir. Margaret Perry

  • Documentary

Synopsis

Land for Pioneers is a documentary about economic development in the Canadian North from a 1944 nationalist perspective.

Synopsis from OMDb

Details

Director
Margaret Perry
Studio
ONF | NFB
Released
1944-04-08
Running time
14 minutes
Language
English
Collection
Prelinger Archives

Cast & crew

Reviews on the Internet Archive

★★★ · Ring a ding ding · Spuzz · 2012-07-23

Pretty average film telling of all the resources hidden away in Northern Canada, ready for the taking. Environmentalists would have a field day with this I suppose. Interesting music in this, the piano sounding like a mix of horror and film noir.