Boundary Waters Quetico Forum :: Listening Point - General Discussion :: Quetico movie on Youtube
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Kelso
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.
wetcanoedog
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.
wetcanoedog
03/17/2019 06:27PM
Is this a teenage Bill Mason? Looks like an old National Film Board of Canada work.
mkdixon
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
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?
"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.