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Dreams of a Land

Dreams of a Land

| 8 min

Animated drawings illustrate the life and explorations of Samuel de Champlain, founder of Québec City. The film follows Champlain from his first ambitions to map the New World and discover a passage to the sea, to his later dreams for New France.


Credits
  • director
    Robert Doucet
  • animation
    Robert Doucet
  • producer
    Eunice Macaulay
  • script
    Eunice Macaulay
  • executive producer
    Douglas MacDonald
  • camera
    Jacques Avoine
  • sound editing
    Bernard Bordeleau
  • re-recording
    Jean-Pierre Joutel
  • narrator
    Vlasta Vrana
  • music
    Alex Pauk

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