Cesar's bark canoe video online

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http://beta.nfb.ca/film/Cesar_et_son_Canot_d_ecorce/

This is the best, greatest, most wonderfully inspiring woody film I have ever seen. Filmed in 1971 an old Cree goes through all the processes of making a birch bark canoe. I only have it on VHS and it seems not to be available on DVD but here it is for free online. 57 minutes, enjoy.

PS thanks to Jojo for the link first posted in the crook knives thread, I think it is worth putting up here on its own.
 
http://beta.nfb.ca/film/Cesar_et_son_Canot_d_ecorce/

This is the best, greatest, most wonderfully inspiring woody film I have ever seen. Filmed in 1971 an old Cree goes through all the processes of making a birch bark canoe. I only have it on VHS and it seems not to be available on DVD but here it is for free online. 57 minutes, enjoy.

PS thanks to Jojo for the link first posted in the crook knives thread, I think it is worth putting up here on its own.

It is fantastic, I would love a copy but they don't do dvd's of it. I wonder if you can buy a download version?
inspirational in extremis!
nice one Robin;)
cheers
R.B.
 
I found that video confusing. How could he possibly do all that without a full tang, scandi ground knife, which, as everyone knows, is required for bushcraft? :confused: Just imagine the canoe he could have built if he'd had the proper knife. ;)
 
He did have a crook though, kind of evens the odds...

I once heard from someone that a good craftsman can make something beautiful with whatever tools they're using.

Lovely video, I most enjoyed watching something un-narrated.How relaxing it made it, even enough to soothe my crying 7 month old son, he was rapt!

Filmography at its best I think, in that it couldn't be any better told in any other medium.
 
That was my favorite part. :lmao: That and the dog climbing the ladder. :lmao:

The dog was cool. I did like it when he misplaced his crooked knife under the sheathing too:) . Nice touch to leave it in the film.
 
The dog was cool. I did like it when he misplaced his crooked knife under the sheathing too:) . Nice touch to leave it in the film.

That was good too. :)

Maybe some folks will recall Ray Mears video on building a birch bark canoe. That guy used a slip joint knife as well. ;)
 
Excellent Video form a down to earth man with exceptional skills and more or less a dying art, his massive hands confident and ooze's with lifetime bushcraft skills, at 67 a real pro at his best. 100 out 100 for 67 years old CESAR NEWASHISH building a a canoe a la maniere attikamek. with an axe, simple croof knife and a handdrill, what more do you want when one is gifted! and its free.
thanks Jojo and Robin Wood.
regards
the interceptor boy.
 
This is the best, greatest, most wonderfully inspiring woody film I have ever seen. Filmed in 1971 an old Cree goes through all the processes of making a birch bark canoe. I only have it on VHS and it seems not to be available on DVD but here it is for free online. 57 minutes, enjoy.

I just got a mail from them; movies are EUR 24.95 each + shipping (EUR 10 for the first and EUR 5 for each additional movie). They have both the Ceasars's canoe and the Cree Hunter one I mentioned another thread. Quite tempted...
 

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