The Rise and Fall of the Great Lakes

Name: The Rise and Fall of the Great Lakes
Genre: Documentary, Comedy
Released: 1968-01-01
Rating: 8.0
Cast: Blake James

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1968

Release Year

17 min

Runtime

Documentary

Comedy

Overview

A lesson in geography, which concludes that although the Great Lakes have had their ups and downs, nothing has been harder to take than what humans have done to them lately. In the film, a lone canoeist lives through the changes of geological history, through Ice Age and flood, only to find himself in the end trapped in a sea of scum.

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Keywords

environment

the great lakes

Cast

Blake James

Man in the Canoe

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7.0avg rating

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

January 23, 2025

7/10

The Great Lakes cover over 94,000 square miles between the USA and Canada, and for fifteen minutes Bill Mason provides the imagery and Bruce Mackay the lyrics of some daft songs and their efforts combine to provide us with an entertaining appraisal of just how the lakes were formed by glacial activi…

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