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Islands of the Frozen Sea

This short documentary offers a look at the life forms on the Queen Elizabeth Islands within the Arctic Circle. Even in this frigid zone of icebergs and glaciers a surprising variety of wildlife and vegetation is seen. Writings from the logbooks of early explorers provide vivid descriptions of scenes as arresting to them in their century as to today's explorer.
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    1955 46 films
    This TV series from the mid-1950s blended documentary and fiction to tell Canadian stories from a Canadian perspective.

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This short documentary offers a look at the life forms on the Queen Elizabeth Islands within the Arctic Circle. Even in this frigid zone of icebergs and glaciers a surprising variety of wildlife and vegetation is seen. Writings from the logbooks of early explorers provide vivid descriptions of scenes as arresting to them in their century as to today's explorer.

Environment and Conservation Geography and Geology Animals Plants All subjects
  • director
    Dalton Muir
    Hugh O'Connor
    Strowan Robertson
  • cinematography
    Dalton Muir
    Hugh O'Connor
    Strowan Robertson
  • producer
    Hugh O'Connor
  • executive producer
    Jacques Bobet
  • script
    Gilbert Choquette
  • editing
    William Greaves
  • music
    Robert Fleming
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