This Warner Brothers short subject about Canadian bush pilots and their work in safeguarding Canada's forests -- mostly against the spruce bud worm and fire -- has a narration voiced by Knox Manning is a rather over-the-top manner.
It will remind the viewer of a lot of these travelogues of the James Fitzpatrick series from MGM, although the black and white photography and the variability of the shots will soon strike the audience. Clearly, its clips are sourced from a variety of sources, some carefully composed -- particularly the portrait shots, which usually show their subjects gazing nobly past the upper left corner of the frame -- and others showing that they are multi-generational copies by their overly contrasted appearance.
Still, it's certainly informative and a reasonable example of a robust and long-lasting genre.
It will remind the viewer of a lot of these travelogues of the James Fitzpatrick series from MGM, although the black and white photography and the variability of the shots will soon strike the audience. Clearly, its clips are sourced from a variety of sources, some carefully composed -- particularly the portrait shots, which usually show their subjects gazing nobly past the upper left corner of the frame -- and others showing that they are multi-generational copies by their overly contrasted appearance.
Still, it's certainly informative and a reasonable example of a robust and long-lasting genre.
