Agency:.Produced by the NFB in co-operation with the Canadian Wildlife Service of Environment Canada, and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service.

Director, Michael McKennirey ; editing, Michael McKennirey ; producer, Desmond Dew ; executive producer, Colin Low ; script, Ian MacNeill ; photography, Don Virgo, Douglas Kiefer, David De Volpi ; sound, Jean-Guy Normandin ; sound editing, Ken Page ; music, Karl Duplessis.

Narrator, Ian MacNeill.

Recorded 1976.

This film documents the efforts of a group of people in Canada and the United States to save the whooping crane from extinction. They display great determination and resourcefulness in their dealings with this mysterious, fiercely independent pre-Ice Age creature. The issues of wild animals imprinting on people and the preservation of wild animals in captivity are examined in this film.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Special Award, 1979

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