Percé on the Rocks

Les principaux éléments qui font de Percé le lieu de villégiature le plus couru du Québec sont décomposés et reconstitués dans ce film. Les images sont inoubliables d'imprévu et de poésie et les chants combleront d'aise et de surprise les auditeurs éberlués.

Island of Birds (2 min.): Camera close-ups on Green Island near Newfoundland. Caplin Harvest (2 min.): Silvery caplin wash ashore, making an easy catch for fishermen. Outports on the Move (4 min.): House after house is floated to the Newfoundland mainland, where schools, hospitals, stores and services are available.

In this spectacular documentary, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, oceanographer, and an NFB-Cousteau crew sail up the St. Lawrence River to the Great Lakes on board the specially equipped vessel, the Calypso. They explore the countryside from their helicopter and plumb the depths in their diving saucer. Shipwrecks, both historic and more recent, the Manicouagan power dam, Niagara Falls, the St. Lawrence Seaway locks, and an underwater chase with caribou are some of the sights filmed above and below water. What they see is exciting, sometimes dramatic and often disheartening; pollution is taking its toll.