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Climate and Weather (12)

  • Air - Climate
    Air - Climate
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    Michel Barbeau 2000 19 min
    This documentary takes us on a visual tour of Canada's extreme weather and climate. The film is part of the Transit series, which explores Canada's natural landscape, from the humid rainforests of British Columbia, to the desert-like badlands of Alberta; from the frosty Arctic where no trees grow, to the fertile farmland of the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River Region.
  • A Cloud's Dream
    A Cloud's Dream
    Andrew Hicks 2011 1 min
    Watch as one cloud’s imagination soars from the familiar to the unknown on a captivating journey from dusk until dawn. Animated using partial audio waveform data, A Cloud’s Dream is a stereoscopic particle simulation that explores various cloud formations.

    Produced as part of the 7th edition of the NFB’s Hothouse apprenticeship.
  • Canadian Screen Magazine No. 8
    Canadian Screen Magazine No. 8
    1946 7 min
    Exercise Musk-Ox Finishes Three-Month Arctic Trek: A fifty-man team completes its research expedition to the Arctic. War-born Seaweed Industry Assures Peacetime Prosperity: In Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Irish moss is harvested and processed for use in the manufacture of a variety of products. Canada's Flying Wing Passes Flight Tests: Tests on the flying wing--an aircraft without motor or tail--are conducted in Ottawa by the National Research Council. Unique Design for Living Solves Housing Shortage: Veterans who are University of Saskatchewan students, and their families, live in barracks that have been converted into community apartments.
  • Eye Witness No. 65
    Eye Witness No. 65
    Hector Lemieux  &  Ronald Weyman 1954 11 min
    Old Glory Weather Station: Life on top of the world is a year-round experience for meteorologists who work at the highest observatory in the Canadian Rockieson on Old Glory Mountain in British Columbia. Easter in Jerusalem: Roman Catholic priests from many Canadian communities join in a pilgrimage to the Holy City during Easter week.
  • It'll Be Nice Out Tomorrow
    It'll Be Nice Out Tomorrow
    Antoine Létourneau-Berger  &  Guillaume Lévesque 2020 4 min
    IMPORTANT: For the optimal experience, please use headphones and turn up the volume.

    The influence of the weather on our daily lives and the immense role it plays in our conversations, day after day, are undeniable. The creators Guillaume Lévesque and Antoine Létourneau-Berger had the brilliant idea of weaving their film from snippets of meteorology talk collected in various cities of the Bas-Saint-Laurent. Focusing on human speech and its poetry, It'll Be Nice Out Tomorrow demonstrates how the uncontrollable elements permeate our collective imagination.
  • Lightning
    Lightning
    Sylvain Charbonneau 2000 1 min
    A clip in the Science Please! collection, Lightning uses archival footage, animated illustrations and amusing narration to explain: What causes the electrical discharge we see as lightning?
  • The Origins of Weather
    The Origins of Weather
    Joseph Koenig 1963 12 min
    This short documentary illustrates the factors that produce the various climates on the Earth. A combination of live action footage and animation demonstrates the Earth's dynamic heat exchange—the effect of the sun's heat and the movement of air masses. The equilibrium of the Earth’s atmosphere and the fact that 75% of the planet’s surface is covered by water are factors in preventing the Earth from exhibiting the kinds of extreme climates that many other celestial bodies do.
  • Slippery Ice!
    Slippery Ice!
    Claude Cloutier 1999 1 min
    A clip in the Science Please! collection, Slippery Ice! uses archival footage, animated illustrations and amusing narration to explain why we slip on ice.
  • Science Please! Part 2
    Science Please! Part 2
    2001 15 min
    The Science Please! collection uses archival footage, animated illustrations and amusing narration to explain various scientific discoveries and phenomena.
  • The Wind
    The Wind
    Martin Barry 1998 1 min
    In the collection Science Please!, the first clip, entitled The Wind, explains the phenomenon of the wind with the help of archives, animation and narration.
  • Why Is the Sky Blue?
    Why Is the Sky Blue?
    Sylvain Charbonneau 2001 1 min
    Why isn't it green, yellow or striped?
  • Wind
    Wind
    Ron Tunis 1972 9 min
    A child's first discovery of wind--the silent, invisible something that tickles his fancy, ruffles his hair, ripples the grass around him--portrayed here in winsome animated drawings. But the artist also shows the elemental force that carries all before it. Without words but with sound effects, this is a film of universal appeal.

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