Les raquetteurs [SEP] director
Les raquetteurs
Les raquetteurs is a 1958 Direct Cinema documentary film co-directed by Michel Brault and Gilles Groulx. The film explores life in rural Quebec, at a convention of snowshoers in Sherbrooke, Quebec in February 1958. The film is notable for helping to establish the then-nascent French language production unit at the National Film Board of Canada, and more importantly, the development of a uniquely Quebec style of direct cinema.
The film incorporates agile camera work and a largely synchronous soundtrack, uninterrupted by any narration,
Marcel Carrière
Marcel Carrière (born April 16, 1935) is a Canadian film director and sound engineer.
Biography.
Marcel Carrière joined the NFB in 1955 after studying electronic engineering and developed his skills as a sound engineer while working on wildlife films, the "Candid Eye" series and the work of the newly formed French Unit. On "Les raquetteurs" (1958), his love of experimenting led him to devise a way to record synchronized sound before it was technically possible for sound to be synched with