Cesar's Bark Canoe (1971)
"This documentary depicts a canoe being built in the traditional manner. Cesar Newashish, a 67-year-old Attikamek of the Manawan Reserve North of Montréal, uses only birchbark, cedar splints, spruce roots, and gum. With a sure hand he works methodically to fashion a craft unsurpassed in function or beauty of design. Building a canoe solely from the materials that the forest provides may become a lost art, even among the Native Peoples whose traditional craft it is. The film is free of spoken commentary but text appears on the screen in Cree, French, and English." - Anthology Film Archives
Director: Bernard Gosselin
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César Newashish as Self |
| Directing | Bernard Gosselin | Director |
| Sound | Roger Lamoureux | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Camera | Bernard Gosselin | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Monique Fortier | Editor |
| Production | Paul Larose | Producer |
| Sound | Maurice Blackburn | Music |
| Sound | Serge Beauchemin | Sound |
