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Director, Albert Kish ; producer, Albert Kish ; editing, Albert Kish ; executive producer, Adam Symansky, Barrie Howells ; cinematography, Andy Kitzanuk ; sound, Bev Davidson, Hans Oomes ; re-recording, Hans Peter Strobl ; music, Ben Low, Keith Tedman.

Recorded 1984.

The Age of Invention is a filmic poem about the coming of the machine age on the eve of World War I. A montage of images and sounds re-creates a bygone era--scratchy phonograph records, faded photographs, hand-cranked movie cameras, staccato Morse telegraph messages, rhythmic, rumbling steam pumps. Machines of every description were shaping peoples' lives; changing them more rapidly than at any other time in history; changing them forever.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Blue Ribbon Award - Category: Visual Essays, 1985

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