Agency:.Co-produced by the NFB and the CBC.

Director, Robert Duncan ; producer, Robert Duncan ; script, Robert Duncan ; executive producer, Roger Kennedy, Barrie Howells ; cinematography, Vic Sarin ; sound, Bob Jones ; editing, Janice Brown ; sound editing, Bernard Bordeleau, Diane Normandeau ; re-recording, Hans Peter Strobl, Adrian Croll ; music, Chris Crilly.

Narrator, Robert Duncan.

Recorded 1982.

A portrait of and tribute to the author who, with the publication of Barometer Rising in 1941, set a precedent in Canadian literature by writing about Canadian topics and places and, in so doing, paved the way for a thriving national literary movement. Through the use of still photographs, archival footage and interviews, this documentary traces seven decades of MacLennan's public and private life--as a young boy in Nova Scotia, brought up in a strict Presbyterian family of Scottish descent, as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford, as a professor at McGill University, and as the author of seven novels and numerous essays. Also featured in the film are several readings from MacLennan's work.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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