North Shore (1949 film)
1949 Canadian film
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North Shore (La Terre de Caïn) is a 1949 Canadian short documentary film, directed by Pierre Petel.[1][2]
| North Shore | |
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| French | La Terre de Caïn |
| Directed by | Pierre Petel |
| Written by | Pierre Petel |
| Produced by | James Beveridge |
| Starring | Fred Davis Max Ferguson René Lecavalier |
| Cinematography | Julien St-Georges |
| Music by | Maurice Blackburn |
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Release date |
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Running time | 21 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Languages | English French |
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]
