North Shore (1949 film)

North Shore
FrenchLa Terre de Caïn
Directed byPierre Petel
Written byPierre Petel
Produced byJames Beveridge
StarringFred Davis
Max Ferguson
René Lecavalier
CinematographyJulien St-Georges
Music byMaurice Blackburn
Production
company
Release date
  • 1949 (1949)
Running time
21 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguagesEnglish
French

North Shore (La Terre de Caïn) is a 1949 Canadian short documentary film, directed by Pierre Petel.[1][2]

The film shows the scenery, industry, fishing and general development of the north shore of the lower St. Lawrence River in the Côte-Nord region of Quebec. It was released in both French and English versions, with French narration by René Lecavalier and English narration by Fred Davis and Max Ferguson.

North Shore competed at the 1949 Cannes Film Festival. It won the 1950 Canadian Film Award for Best Theatrical Short.[3] Petel also won an award from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts for "Excursion in the Mingan Islands", a painting of rock formations in the Mingan Islands that he created while working on the film.[4]

References

  1. ^ "North Shore". onf-nfb.gc.ca. National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved 5 April 2023.
  2. ^ C. Rodney James, Film as a National Art: NFB of Canada and the Film Board Idea. Arno Press, 1977. p. 283.
  3. ^ Wyndham Wise, Take One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film. University of Toronto Press, 2015. ISBN 9781442656208.
  4. ^ "Pierre Petel Wins Award for Painting". Ottawa Journal. March 15, 1950. p. 14. Retrieved May 23, 2018 – via Newspapers.com. Free access icon

North Shore in the NFB collection catalog


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