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Les miroirs du temps

1990 23 min
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Ce court métrage d’animation raconte aux enfants et aux adultes de l'ère des satellites la fascinante histoire de la découverte de la mesure du temps. À l'époque où il suffit d'appuyer sur un bouton pour tout connaître, qui soupçonnerait la longue patience qu'il a fallu à l'humanité pour calquer ses instruments de mesure sur les mécanismes invisibles d'un phénomène dont nous ignorons encore presque tout?

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Ce court métrage d’animation raconte aux enfants et aux adultes de l'ère des satellites la fascinante histoire de la découverte de la mesure du temps. À l'époque où il suffit d'appuyer sur un bouton pour tout connaître, qui soupçonnerait la longue patience qu'il a fallu à l'humanité pour calquer ses instruments de mesure sur les mécanismes invisibles d'un phénomène dont nous ignorons encore presque tout?

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  • director
    Jean-Jacques Leduc
  • delegate producer
    Jean-Jacques Leduc
  • script
    Jean-Jacques Leduc
  • producer
    Robert Forget
  • camera
    Martin Leclerc
  • animation camera
    Jacques Avoine
    Pierre Landry
  • editing
    Werner Nold
  • sound editing
    Marie-Claude Salvaille
  • animation
    Claude Cloutier
    Jean-Michel Labrosse
    Bertrand Langlois
    Yvon Mallette
    Luc Savoie
    Michel Hébert
    Lucia Modesto
  • infographics
    Ines Hardtke
    Terry Higgins
    Doris Kochanek
  • music recording
    Louis Hone
  • sound design
    Gilles Quintal
  • music editing
    Gilles Quintal
  • sound mixer
    Jean-Pierre Joutel
    Shelley Craig
  • voice
    Michel Mongeau
    Michel Trahan
  • narration
    Hélène Pedneault
    Michel Mongeau
  • music
    Pierre Desrochers

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Education

Ages 13 to 17
School subjects
Mathematics - Geometry Science - Space Technology Education - Society and Technology
Students will research the history of astronomy and time keeping methods of different cultures. Students will choose a great human problem of the past and demonstrate how math and science helped to solve it. Students will also be encouraged to keep a journal of the Moon's phases in order to measure one lunar cycle. Students can investigate the Moon's relationship to Earth, its influence on the tides, etc.
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