topic:"Alberta" found 29 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Highway wilding : build them and they will live

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Medium: Library - Moving image (includes film and digital video - published)

Published Date: 2013

Author: Allison, Leanne

Call Number: S918 A44 H54

1 website

Author: Allison, Leanne

Responsibility: Leanne Allison

Published Date: 2013

Medium: Library - Moving image (includes film and digital video - published)

Subjects: Wildlife; Wildlife corridors; Wildlife management; Film making; Films; Highways; Highways - Alberta; Banff National Park; Banff National Park - Roads & Trails

Abstract: Highway Wilding sets out to convince us that roads as we know them are a serious problem and make a case for doing something smarter, and achieves both beyond all doubt. Better yet, it deepens into the long-distance lives of animals and evokes that powerful sense of nature as a world operating outside of our daily understandings. Everyone will have their own moment where the film crosses over from interesting to urgent; for me, it was the story of a transplanted lynx that walked over 1500 kilometres home from America. Beautiful." - J.B. Mackinnon - author of 'The 100-Mile Diet' and 'The Once and Future World' (2013)

Notes: Banff Mountain Film Festival Finalist - 2013

Accession Number: AC637

Call Number: S918 A44 H54

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

URL Notes: Film available online at link via youtube

Websites

http://www.highwaywilding.org/hw_movie.php

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Days of heaven

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Medium: Library - Moving image (includes film and digital video - published)

Published Date: 2007

Publisher: [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection

Call Number: 06.3 D33 DVD

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Responsibility: Terrence Malick (director); Richard Gere (actor); Brooke Adams (actor); Sam Shepard (actor)

Publisher: [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection

Published Date: 2007

Physical Description: 1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color

Medium: Library - Moving image (includes film and digital video - published)

Subjects: Film making; Films; Waterton; Waterton Lakes; Southern Alberta; Engler, Bruno

Abstract: In 1910, Bill, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor. He flees to the Texas panhandle with his lover Abby and his little sister Linda, where they work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer. When Bill learns that the farmer is ill and has less than a year to live, he encourages Abby to accept the man's attentions. The Farmer and Abby marry, and she and her "siblings" live in the big house, waiting for the Farmer to die, so Abby can inherit, and the three of them live happily ever after. But love seems to be a cure-all: the Farmer seems to be improving--and Abby is no longer seeing this as a marriage of convenience. From a landscape of panoramic vistas, vivid colors, and rich textures comes a timeless American idyll and a gritty evocation of turn-of-the-century labor.

Contents: Going places -- Work -- Harvest -- Abby -- Prognosis -- Job ends -- Tired -- Staying on -- Future -- Marriage -- Rich -- Out for a walk -- "I don't know you" -- Flying circus -- Business -- Return -- Locusts -- "Nobody's perfect" -- Hunted -- New beginnings.

Notes: Still photography by Bruno Engler; Filmed in Southern Alberta and Waterton National Park; Special features: Commentary with Jack Fisk, Billy Weber, Patricia Norris, and Dianne Crittenden [audio feature]; Interview with Richard Gere [audio feature] (22 min.); Interview with Sam Shepard (13 min.); Interview with John Bailey (21 min.); Interview with Haskell Wexler (12 min.). Booklet includes essays "On Earth as it is in heaven" by Adrian Martin and "Shooting 'Days of Heaven'" by Nestor Almendros.

Accession Number: P2019-31

Call Number: 06.3 D33 DVD

Collection: Archives Library

URL Notes: Days of Heaven on IMDb

Websites

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077405/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

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The Alberta 100 : a centennial countdown [DVD video]

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Medium: Library - Moving image (includes film and digital video - published)

Published Date: 2005

Publisher: Calgary : Pyramid Productions

Call Number: 08.2 Al1t DVD

Responsibility: hosted by Ron Maclean

Publisher: Calgary : Pyramid Productions

Published Date: 2005

Physical Description: 1 digital video disc : 1 sd., col. with b&w sequences

Medium: Library - Moving image (includes film and digital video - published)

Subjects: Alberta centennial

Notes: 100 notable personalities of Alberta, including: Catharine Robb Whyte; Pat Brewster; Beckie Scott; Ed Whelen; John Ware: Bob Edwards; W.O. Mitchell; Andy Russell; Senator Matthew Cochrane; Grant MacEwan; Ken Read; Mary Schaffer Warren; Frank Oliver; Wilf Carter: Peter Lougheed; Ian Tyson; Crowfoot; Lois Hole