The Seasons (1954)

Directed by

Christopher Chapman

Genre

documentary film

Country

Canada

Runtime

18 min

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This short documentary shows the changes of the four seasons over a year on a farm by Lake Simcoe. The images are set to Vivaldi's The Four Seasons music.

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What happens

The Seasons is a 1954 Canadian short documentary film directed by Christopher Chapman. Set to Antonio Vivaldi's The Four Seasons, the film depicts the cycle of the seasons throughout a year on the grounds of his parents' farm on the shore of Lake Simcoe. The film won the Canadian Film Award for Film of the Year at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards. Following Chapman's death in 2015, a public sculpture inspired by and named in honour of The Seasons was installed on the grounds of the ReachView Village seniors home in Uxbridge, Ontario, where Chapman had lived in his final years. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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