Learning on ScreenArtist Takes Root
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 3 / 4
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Artist Takes Root. DESCRIPTION: The Bad Lands of Alberta - avoided by men. Out of the Bad Lands rides a man who has discovered something else about the life hidden within this virtually lifeless place. He is Wilfred Hodgson, who is nearly 80. He draws inspiration from the Bad Lands, in particular from gnarled and twisted roots of the juniper tree. Mr Hodgson’s carvings reveal the forms he sees within these convolutions, faces and figures, life and movement unlocked from the lifeless wood. SHOTLIST: Key scene. GV hill in country. MS same. LAS rocks. MS pan - same. MLS open country. Wilfred Hodgson across river on horseback (2 shots). BS Hodgson on horseback. Same stops outside house and goes inside (2 shots). MCU pan - sculpture. MCU Hodgson working. MS same. CU Hodgson. Same polishes finished piece (2 shots). Sculpture (2 shots). MCU sculpture of a man sitting down. MCU sculpture. MS same. MS sculpture of girl twisting round. This Alberta rancher creates free-flowing carvings from the Juniper root collected from the Alberta Badlands.
- Keywords
- Environment; Arts and crafts
- Locations
- Canada; Alberta; Drumheller; Dorothy
- Footage sources
- National Film Board of Canada
- Card file number
- 86788
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 164
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