Man Against a Fungus

195538 minFilm: Documentaire

Réalisation: Maurice Constant

Production: Guy Glover

Scénarisation: Maurice Constant

Produced by the National Film Board of Canada with the cooperation of the Laboratories of Plant Pathology and Cereal Breeding of the Canadian Department of Agriculture.

This film dramatically portrays a struggle that is waged annually in wheat-growing areas--man against the wheat rust fungus. Views of the destruction caused during rust epidemics emphasize the urgency with which plant pathologists are endeavoring to breed resistant wheats and, eventually, to annihilate the blight. Animation, time-lapse photography and cinephotomicrography illustrate the life cycle of the fungus and the complex alternation of generations which poses one of the chief problems.

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Catégories de sujets


  • Plantes > AgricultureLutte contre les ennemis des plantesRecherche scientifique
  • Agriculture > Culture et RécolteLutte contre les parasitesRecherche et TechnologieBlé

Générique


réalisateur
Maurice Constant
scénario
Maurice Constant
producteur
Guy Glover
photographie
Grant Crabtree
montage
J.V. Durden
son
George Croll
animation
Barry Helmer
narrateur
Geoffrey Hogwood
William Needles
musique
Louis Applebaum

Prix et récompenses


  • prix d'excellenceBiological Photographic Association of America Exhibition