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Catalogue Number: NFB525504
Producer: National Film Board Of Canada
Producers: Joseph Koenig
Directors: Co Hoedeman
Producing Agencies: National Film Board of Canada (Montreal), Office national du film du Canada (Montreal)
Subject: Animation, Geography, Physical Geography, Science
Language: French
Grade Level: 6 - 8, 9 - 12, Post Secondary
Country Of Origin: Canada
Copyright Year: 1968
Running Time: 9:00
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La Dérive des continents - DVD
Catalogue Number: NFB525504
Producer: National Film Board Of Canada
Producers: Joseph Koenig
Directors: Co Hoedeman
Producing Agencies: National Film Board of Canada (Montreal), Office national du film du Canada (Montreal)
Subject: Animation, Geography, Physical Geography, Science
Language: French
Grade Level: 6 - 8, 9 - 12, Post Secondary
Country Of Origin: Canada
Copyright Year: 1968
Running Time: 9:00
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An exposition through film animation of the theory that Earth's land areas are fluid and that, in the process of a slow, rolling, boiling motion, one part of the Earth might well be engulfed and then rise again some distance away, much the same as froth on a kettle of soup. From this theory comes the idea that continents were formed from one super-continent that broke up, whose pieces sank, and then rose once more, but far apart. Introducing the film is Professor J. Tuzo Wilson, geophysicist, University of Toronto.