Director, Gilles Groulx, Michel Brault ; cinematography, Gilles Groulx, Michel Brault ; editing, Gilles Groulx, Michel Brault ; sound, Marcel Carrière ; sound editing, Stuart Baker ; music editing, Norman Bigras ; mixing, Ron Alexander.

Recorded 1958.

With great authenticity and spontaneity, Les raquetteurs records the celebration and ritual surrounding a snowshoe competition in Sherbrooke in the late 1950s. The film marked the beginning of a new approach to reality in documentary and prefigures the trademark style of the NFB's newly formed French Unit. Today, Les raquetteurs is considered a precursor to the birth of direct cinema. In French with English subtitles.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Silver Medal of the Italian Radio, 1960

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