Wings In The Wilderness
- Release Information
- January 17, 1975
- Sudbury
- Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC)
- January 17, 1975
- Sudbury
- Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC)
- January 17, 1975
- Sudbury
- Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC)
- January 17, 1975
- Sudbury
- Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC)
- January 17, 1975
- Sudbury
- Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC)
- January 17, 1975
- Sudbury
- Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC)
- January 17, 1975
- Sudbury
- Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC)
- January 17, 1975
- Sudbury
- Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC)
- January 17, 1975
- Sudbury
- Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC)
- January 17, 1975
- Timmins
- Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC)
- January 17, 1975
- Timmins
- Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC)
- January 17, 1975
- Timmins
- Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC)
- January 17, 1975
- Timmins
- Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC)
- January 17, 1975
- Timmins
- Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC)
- January 17, 1975
- Timmins
- Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC)
- January 17, 1975
- Timmins
- Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC)
- January 17, 1975
- Timmins
- Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC)
- January 17, 1975
- Timmins
- Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC)
- January 17, 1975
- North Bay area
- Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC)
- January 17, 1975
- North Bay area
- Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC)
- January 17, 1975
- North Bay area
- Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC)
- January 17, 1975
- North Bay area
- Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC)
- January 17, 1975
- North Bay area
- Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC)
- January 17, 1975
- North Bay area
- Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC)
- January 17, 1975
- North Bay area
- Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC)
- January 17, 1975
- North Bay area
- Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC)
- January 17, 1975
- North Bay area
- Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC)
- Budget
- Actual cost: $175,000
- Distributors
- Manitou Productions
- Manitou Productions
Production Details
- Executive Producer
- Robert Ryan
- Ralph C. Ellis
- Robert Ryan
- Producer
- Dan Gibson
- Dan Gibson
- Jerry Kedey
- Line Producer
- Robert Ryan
- Robert Ryan
- Director
- Robert Ryan
- Robert Ryan
- Robert Ryan
- Robert Ryan
- Director of Photography
- Robert Ryan
- Robert Ryan
- Robert Ryan
- Robert Ryan
- Robert Ryan
- Robert Ryan
- Robert Ryan
- Robert Ryan
- Robert Ryan
- Robert Ryan
- Robert Ryan
- Robert Ryan
- Director of Sound
- Dan Gibson
- Dan Gibson
- Music
- Ron Harrison
- Ron Harrison
- Editor
- Lori Labatt
- Cast
- Bert Devitt
- Lorne Greene
- Lorne Greene
- Lorne Greene
- Lorne Greene
- Ronald France
- Ronald France
- Ronald France
- Ronald France
- Ronald France
- Ronald France
- Ronald France
- Ronald France
- Ronald France
- Ronald France
- Ronald France
When Canadian naturalist Dan Gibson came across two newly hatched Canada geese, just minutes old, he hardly expected that this would be the start of a unique wildlife adventure. What Dan had encountered was the phenomenon naturalists call "imprinting on humans. "The goslings, emerging from their shells, 'imprinted' or attached themselves to the first large moving object they saw. Usually this would be their mother, but in this instance, it was a very surprised Dan Gibson. After Dan's son Gordon taught the geese to fly by following their power boat, Dan tried an experiment using a radio-controlled model airplane with a walkie-talkie mounted on the wing. The geese would follow his voice and fly along with the little plane as if it were part of the flock. Next, Dan had a larger model plane built complete with a high speed camera to record as intimately as possible the ultimate experience of flying. Filmed in super slow motion at 400 frames per second, these maginificent birds are pure poetry in motion as they fill the screen in full flight, with every graceful movement shown in breath-taking close-up." The documentary includes Dan Gibson with a gadget called a "Loonatic", a radio controlled decoy painted in the likeness of a loon. Dan Gibson and his wife Helen are seen at their cottage viewing some recently developed film footage on a film projector that is powered off of a portable generator. Also included is a dramatic re-enactment of an encounter Dan Gibson had with poachers.
Source: Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC)
