Episode 41:Remembering Dan Gibson’s Wings in the Wildeness

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Episode 41:Remembering Dan Gibson's Wings in the Wildeness

In the mid 1970s Dan Gibson award winning wildlife film maker, sound recording artist, inventor of the Dan Gibson Sound Parabola recoding device, founder of Dan Gibson’s Solitudes music label, Juno award winner and a recipient of the Order of Canada decided to venture into doing a feature length film. Filmed on Canoe Lake during the summer of 1974, Wings in the Wilderness went on to win a Canadian Film Awards Etrog for Best Sound in a Non-theatrical Film and Certificate of Honour for outstanding contribution to the art of cinematography. This was because for the first time ever, flying geese were filmed whilst flying up close and personal in V- formation. In this episode I interviewed my brother Bob Clemson, who was a production assistant on the film, with additional commentary from my childhood and Canoe Lake friend Holly Gibson Stewart.

This episode’s musical interludes include ‘Whiskey Jack Creek’ and ‘White Throat’ from Dan Gibson Solitudes Land of the Loon CD and brought to us with the approval of Digital Funding LLC. Solitudes music can be found where ever you get your music streaming.