01 January 1954 Factual 29 mins
This short documentary illustrates what to do when you're lost in the bush. Filmed in 1954, an NFB producer and a Native guide allow themselves to be marooned in the bush with only an axe and their wits as means of survival. They eat off the land, build their own birchbark canoe and make their way out.
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Robert Anderson as Narrator
Doug McKay Director of Photography
Canada 01 January 1954
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01 January 1954
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