The Northern Lights

This short documentary examines the phenomenon of the northern lights, aka the aurora borealis. Though scientists have advanced many theories in an attempt to explain it, mysteries still linger. Experience a visual panorama of animated legends and international space launches as indigenous people and scientists offer their perceptions of the wondrous northern lights.

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  • bruhaa

    “isn't there some way to possibly send up some kind of very strong weather balloon or something like this and attach high density camera's to these balloons to study these lights ? other than launching a missle which only gives us such a limited time frame to study these effects and retrieve more information on this field ? I am not sure of the available materials that could be used to get up to the 5 miles up into this lower atmosphere where these lights seam to appear to generate from but if something like a high tech weather balloon could possibly even be attached to some kind of a high tech wire even to keep it stationary ? since these lights seam to be to low in our atmosphere to monitor or study with a satelite since this has to be too high to study these lights ? just an idea? ” — bruhaa, 31 Mar 2010

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Film Credits

director
Alan Booth
cinematography
Alan Booth
producer
Lindsay Ann Cooke
Alan Booth
Jerry Krepakevich
script
Lindsay Ann Cooke
sound
Garrell Clark
Jerry Krepakevich
Lindsay Ann Cooke
Dan Cross
William R. Law
William Butler
Rod Crawley
editing
Michel Lalonde
animation
Bertrand Langlois
Elizabeth Lewis
François Aubry
re-recording
Dino Pigat
narrator
Michael Kramer
Lydia Slabyj
music
Quartet Icarus

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