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On the Edge: The Life and Times of Nancy Greene series
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1994-2004 (Creation)
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7 cm of textual material.
6 photographic images.
32 video elements.
1 audio element.
1 CD.
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On the Edge: The Life and Times of Nancy Greene is a biography of Canada's most famous skiing champion culminating with her gold medal giant slalom victory in the 1968 Grenoble Olympics. Greene was a Canadian National Ski Team member from 1959 to 1968 and won 17 Canadian Championship titles in all disciplines. In 1968 she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada, The sixty-minute documentary features Greene's photographs and scrapbook clippings, footage from the Olympic Games and interviews with Greene and fellow teammates. Also included in the documentary are interviews with Greene's husband, Al Raine, a former director of Canada's National Ski Team, and their two sons, Willy and Charley, and a discussion of the family's Sun Peaks development in the B.C. interior. On the Edge also features footage of Greene skiing at the National Ski Team Benefit Golf Tournament in Calgary, and Canadian skiers Ken Read and Karrin Lee-Gartner speaking about how Greene inspired them. The film is directed by David Paperny and narrated by Jerry Thompson.
Series consists of a digital master tape, a set of video and audio elements and textual material relating to the development of the production.