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Bush Pilot: Reflections on a Canadian Myth

Name: Bush Pilot: Reflections on a Canadian Myth
Duration: 22 min

Bob Lower & Norma Bailey

1980 | 22 min

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This short documentary offers a reflection on the development of the North, where towns are increasingly being remade in the image of the South and bush pilots are slowly becoming obsolete.

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Credits

director

Bob Lower

Norma Bailey
producer

Jerry Krepakevich
executive producer

Michael Scott
writer

Bob Lower
cinematography

Richard A. Stringer

Alan Lawrence

Elise Swerhone
sound

David Springbett
editing

Jane Creba
re-recording

Clive Perry
narrator

Brian Richardson

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A 1980 documentary that I enjoyed.
LaRocque, L, 28 Aug 2020
Again, a myth has been debunked.It is a very hard life being a bush pilot!
Brasstacks, 7 Nov 2013
A very interesting film. My father was a pilot in the late 1940s, learning to fly in night school and flying school at the Vancouver airport. He owned a Culver Cadet to get around the province of BC to do his job as an electrical contractor in various small towns and logging camps etc.
mcrosbie, 30 Jan 2013
i just loved ths film i'm an old westcoast logger and spent many hours flying in the trusty old beaver she always made sure i got home to my babys, and my hats off to the men who made sure we got there,those guys and gals would get us through all kinds of weather
dwyllie49, 15 Jul 2012

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