Канадские фильмы о дикой природе "Кто есть кто в глуши"

Canadian series of wildlife public service announcements

Hinterland Who's Who is a Canadian series of 60 second public service announcements profiling Canadian animals, produced by Environment Canada Wildlife Service and the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) in the 1960s and 70s, and re launched by the Canadian Wildlife Federation in the 2000s.

The Hinterland Who's Who series was commissioned in 1962 by the Canadian Wildlife Service, as a way to generate interest in Canada's wildlife through a series of short, one minute vignettes, broadcast during commercial breaks. The series, produced for the CWS by the National Film Board, has been airing on Canadian television since 1963. In the original announcements, a distinctive refrain of flute music (John Cacavas' Flute Poem) opens the ad, and is accompanied by the low key style of the narrator, John Livingston (originally the executive director of the Canadian Audubon Society), After the series was introduced in colour, it concluded with, "For more information on the [animal], contact the Canadian Wildlife Service, in Ottawa." Newer segments in the late 1970s and 1980s ended with, "For more information on the [animal], why not contact the Canadian Wildlife Service in Ottawa? ", with later instalments including its postal code, K1A 0H3. Viewers requesting information received a four page, illustrated brochure providing more details on the featured animal. The initial animals featured in the new series included the polar bear, the monarch butterfly, the leatherback sea turtle, and the loon. featured the beaver, the loon, the gannet and the moose. Soon after the problem of the search was made public, one of the missing installments, an English language version featuring the loon, was found in the CBC Vancouver archives a few days later, as part of a commercial break during a broadcast of the 1932 Laurel and Hardy classic comedy, Helpmates on July 1, 1969, a holiday then known as Dominion Day. According to Colin Preston, library coordinator at the CBC Vancouver Media Archives, the 1969 recordings were saved by a former CBC employee, who later donated them to the archives for posterity. Another of the missing four, the original beaver vignette, was subsequently found by Preston as well, and the gannet. The French language versions of all four animals soon followed.

Starting in August 2016, the local Mountain View, California television show John Wants Answers started airing the original Hinterland Who's Who vignettes in high definition. The show obtained digital high definition copies converted from the original film from the NFB.