The Great Machine
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In the small Ontario town of Echo, deep underground a typical post-war apartment building, there is a machine – massive and seemingly endless. What is its purpose? What is it for?
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Main credits
Chamberland, Luc (film director)
Chamberland, Luc (screenwriter)
Page, Marcy (film producer)
Mohammadian, Maral (film producer)
Seth (storyteller)
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Animation, Clement Courcier [and 8 others]; editors, Jo Meuris, Luc Chamberland; music, Luigi Allemano.
Distributor subjects Science Fiction; The 1950s and the Cold War
Keywords Comic Books; Machinery; Stories; "The Great Machine"; National Film Board of Canada
00:25.359 --> 00:27.961 (soft music) 00:31.732 --> 00:35.002 (man): In an obscure Ontario town, 00:35.035 --> 00:36.703 just a little place, really... 00:36.737 --> 00:41.208 You know the kind of place: four corners, a few stores, 00:41.241 --> 00:46.380 a handful of houses grouped around a railway depot. 00:58.458 --> 01:01.395 Along one of its back streets... 01:08.068 --> 01:13.040 inside a typical postwar apartment building, 01:13.073 --> 01:15.842 number 15 to be exact... 01:17.878 --> 01:22.149 behind a nondescript door: a thick darkness, 01:22.182 --> 01:27.020 and an overwhelming odour of oil and electricity. 01:33.860 --> 01:35.028 And beyond that, 01:35.062 --> 01:38.065 a vast labyrinth of mysterious vaults, 01:38.098 --> 01:39.499 chambers and hallways. 01:39.533 --> 01:44.938 A great tumult of light and noise and motion. 01:47.441 --> 01:50.043 On and on... 01:50.310 --> 01:55.048 a seemingly endless parade of dim rooms. 01:56.316 --> 02:00.253 (steam hissing) 02:00.287 --> 02:04.958 (electric whirring) 02:17.270 --> 02:20.974 (light bulb crackling) 02:24.144 --> 02:27.280 (space-like soundscape) 02:32.386 --> 02:34.688 (whistling) 02:52.372 --> 02:55.108 (valve pumping) 03:39.820 --> 03:42.556 (suspenseful music) 03:45.158 --> 03:47.360 (footsteps) 03:47.394 --> 03:49.730 Until one suddenly finds one's self 03:49.763 --> 03:53.100 standing outside, in the rear parking lot. 03:53.133 --> 03:54.301 And behind you, 03:54.334 --> 03:59.005 a stark doorway and a little sign... 03:59.106 --> 04:04.578 Open daily, 10 to 4 pm. Come again. 04:16.923 --> 04:19.760 Subtitling: CNST, Montreal
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