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NFB Video: Prairie Sentinels - Surveying day to day operations in 1981

Aug 22, 2014

This Canadian National Film Board (NFB)documentary short is a visual portrait of “Prairie Sentinels,” the vertical grain elevators that once dotted the Canadian Prairies. Surveying an old diesel elevator’s day-to-day operations, this film is a simple, honest vignette on the distinctive wooden structures that would eventually become a symbol of the Prairie provinces.

Grain Elevator by Charles Konowal, National Film Board of Canada