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wetcanoedog
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03/17/2019 06:27PM   (Thread Older Than 3 Years)
Is this a teenage Bill Mason? Looks like an old National Film Board of Canada work.



 
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mkdixon
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03/17/2019 06:42PM  
Great video. Kind of a proto Waterwalker. At the end in the credits it says "Canoeist: William Mason"

Mark
 
primitiveguy
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03/17/2019 09:09PM  
That was very good. I was hoping to see a date but missed it if there was one in the credits. I’m thinking mid 1960’s?
 
03/18/2019 09:41PM  
Great film. I think I found the detailed credits. All the names in the credits match up. The date is given as 1958. The only inaccuracy is that the film is in color but the listing says it was black and white.

 
dicecupmaker
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03/18/2019 11:28PM  
Kewl! I needed that!
 
riverrunner
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03/19/2019 07:23AM  
Wasn't made during bug season.
 
wetcanoedog
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03/19/2019 06:10PM  
looks like he would have been 28/29 or so depending on how long the
production took.i wonder when he started to grow his beard!
at 20.00 there is a view of the big rock fall island on Agnes.
lots of other familiar places that zoom by.
 
03/20/2019 08:29AM  
Quote from director Christopher Chapman:

"The film Quetico is historic for a number of reasons. Quetico Park has not changed a great deal since the film was made in 1956. I wanted to capture the spirit of canoeing and wilderness through the experience of a single canoeist... The film introduces Bill Mason, one of Canada's leading canoeists and conservationists, as a young man. He became fascinated with film-making while we were on location. As a result he began his own quest into film, along with his passion for canoeing." - Christopher Chapman

So if it was filmed in 1956, Bill Mason would have been only 27 at the time.
 
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