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Baseball Girls

This feature documentary uses animation, archival stills and live-action footage to detail the history of women's participation in the largely male-dominated world of baseball and softball. Zany and affectionate, it features 7-year-olds learning the rules and skills of the game and 50-year-olds hitting home runs, from the early days of the Bloomer Girls to the heyday of the Colorado Silver Bullets.
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This feature documentary uses animation, archival stills and live-action footage to detail the history of women's participation in the largely male-dominated world of baseball and softball. Zany and affectionate, it features 7-year-olds learning the rules and skills of the game and 50-year-olds hitting home runs, from the early days of the Bloomer Girls to the heyday of the Colorado Silver Bullets.

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  • cinematography
    Barry Perles
  • location sound
    Hans Oomes
  • editing
    Robert Kennedy
  • producer
    Silva Basmajian
  • narrator
    Lois Siegel
  • director
    Lois Siegel
  • script
    Lois Siegel
  • original music
    André Vincelli
  • music performer
    Jason Lang
    Bobby Lalonde
    André Vincelli
  • sound editing
    Wojtek Klis
  • assistant editor
    Donna Vekteris
  • assistant sound editor
    Donna Vekteris
  • production manager
    Alyna Herscovici
  • 1st assistant camera
    Dawn Nichol
    René Daigle
    Nathalie Lasselin
    Colin Hoult
    Dave Pelletier
    Nash Read
    Bill St. John
  • re-recording
    Serge Boivin
  • music recording
    Louis Hone
  • music recording assistant
    Nathalie Morin
  • 2nd unit camera
    André-Luc Dupont
    Savas Kalogeras
    Gerald Packer
    Andreas Poulsson
    Daniel Villeneuve
  • additional camera assistant
    Holly Nattall
    Carole Lavalee
    Dylon Reade
    Molly Shinhat
    Mark Simkins
    Debra Tabah
    Dennis Timm
  • 2nd unit sound recordist
    Brian Avery
    Marie-France Delagrave
    James Kusan
    Marc Lapointe
    Gabor Vadnay
  • research
    Louise Johnson
    Laura Robinson
    Jeanette Nelson
    David Adkin
    Catherine Merklinger
    Vanessa Ireson
  • consultant
    Barbara Gregorich
    Laura Robinson
  • play-by-play announcer
    Dave Van Horne
  • post-production coordinator
    Linda Payette
    Grace Avrith
    Claude Cardinal
    John William Lutz
  • unit administrator
    Bob Spence
    Ed Barreveld
  • executive producer
    Dennis Murphy
    Gerry Flahive
  • animation
    Heidi Blomkvist
    Dan Clark
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