Acid Rain : Requiem or Recovery

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A film intended to increase public awareness about a growing and serious threat to North America's environment. Acid Rain: Requiem or Recovery looks at the impact of acid precipitation on our woods, waters and wildlife. Graphs, maps and scientific experiments serve to examine what acid rain is, where it originates and how its insidious advance threatens not only the natural life around us, but our man-made environment as well.

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Acid Rain : Requiem or Recovery

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Acid Rain: Requiem or Recovery

Authors

Findlay, Seaton
Turpie, James
Crawley Films Limited (Nepean)

Subjects

Acid rain--Environmental aspects--North America.
Pollution.
Acid rain
Documentary films.

Language

English

Published

Montreal : National Film Board of Canada, 2017.

Publication Desc

1 streaming video (26 min., 50 sec.) : sound + 1 study guide.

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Awards Note

Honorable Mention, 1984 Golden Babe Award - Category: Science , 1984 AMC Dead Fish Award given by the Appalachian Mountain Club "for the efforts to stop fish from being killed and to stop acid rain"., 1985 Honorable Mention - Category: Social Issues / Conservation of Natural Resources, 1990 Blue Ribbon Award - Category: Environmental Issues, 1983 Finalist Award - Category: Ecology-Environment, 1983 Gold Plaque - Category: Science - Environment - Ecology, 1983 First Prize - with a cash prize of 10,000FF, 1983 AWRA'S Award of Merit, 1982 Certificate of Excellence - Category: Pollution, 1982 First Prize, 1982 Diploma of Honour, 1983

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General Note

Agency:.Commissioned by NFB to Crawley Films Ltd. for Environment Canada.
Study guide available.

Credit Note

Director, Seaton Findlay ; executive producer, James Turpie ; script, Michal Anne Crosley ; camera, John Walker, Bill Kerrigan, Rick Mason ; editing, Paul Harris ; re-recording, Robert Leclair, Shalini Kelly.

Performer Note

Narrator, Earl Pennington.

Time of Event Note

Recorded 1981.

Summary

A film intended to increase public awareness about a growing and serious threat to North America's environment. Acid Rain: Requiem or Recovery looks at the impact of acid precipitation on our woods, waters and wildlife. Graphs, maps and scientific experiments serve to examine what acid rain is, where it originates and how its insidious advance threatens not only the natural life around us, but our man-made environment as well.

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Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Awards Note

Honorable Mention, 1984
Golden Babe Award - Category: Science , 1984
AMC Dead Fish Award given by the Appalachian Mountain Club "for the efforts to stop fish from being killed and to stop acid rain"., 1985
Honorable Mention - Category: Social Issues / Conservation of Natural Resources, 1990
Blue Ribbon Award - Category: Environmental Issues, 1983
Finalist Award - Category: Ecology-Environment, 1983
Gold Plaque - Category: Science - Environment - Ecology, 1983
First Prize - with a cash prize of 10,000FF, 1983
AWRA'S Award of Merit, 1982
Certificate of Excellence - Category: Pollution, 1982
First Prize, 1982
Diploma of Honour, 1983

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Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2023-08-10).

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