Gulf Stream

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1971

Creator: Office Of Information Pentagon Bldg

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: Directed by Bruce Mackay and William Hansen for the National Film Board of Canada Traces the 2,000-mile, 15-day voyage of the Freya, a small three-hulled sailing ship, from the Bahamas to the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, following the path of the Gulf Stream. Uses animation, infrared satellite transmissions, and time-lapse photography to explain the origin, nature, and importance of the current, as well as its oceanographic, meteorologic, and ecological aspects


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