Ready When You Are
This short documentary takes a frank look at the difficulty of filmmaking before the digital era, when takes were precious and few. It’s pure havoc on a pier in the Halifax dockyards as a National Film Board crew attempts to film 1000 Halifax school children playing I Believe in Music on their ukuleles. The crew's efforts are confounded by two destroyers, one helicopter, several tugboats, bullhorns, walkie-talkies, and a rather critical lack of bathroom facilities.
This short documentary takes a frank look at the difficulty of filmmaking before the digital era, when takes were precious and few. It’s pure havoc on a pier in the Halifax dockyards as a National Film Board crew attempts to film 1000 Halifax school children playing I Believe in Music on their ukuleles. The crew's efforts are confounded by two destroyers, one helicopter, several tugboats, bullhorns, walkie-talkies, and a rather critical lack of bathroom facilities.
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directorDouglas KieferJohn N. Smith
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producerJohn N. Smith
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executive producerIan McLarenRex Tasker
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photographyTony IanzeloDouglas KieferLes KrizsanKent Nason
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soundTed HaleyClaude Chevalier
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editingFraser Steele
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sound editingAndré GalbrandDonald Douglas
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re-recordingMichel Descombes
Ready When You Are, Douglas Kiefer & John N. Smith, provided by the National Film Board of Canada