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Release Date:
July 4, 1989
Original Title:
Illuminated Lives: A Brief History of Women's Work in the Middle Ages
Genres:
Animation | Documentary | History
Production Companies:
ONF | NFB
Production Countries:
Canada
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 5
This animated short challenges enduring myths, spawned by fairy tales and romances, about women in medieval society. It explores the differences and similarities between that distant period and our own, and shows what medieval women’s lives were really like.
Administration:
Gisèle Guilbault
Animation:
Bob Mistysyn
Associate Producer:
Ellen Besen
Director:
Ellen Besen
Editor:
Cathy Gulkin
Sidonie Kerr
Executive Producer:
Kathleen Shannon
Rina Fraticelli
Music:
Sharon Smith
Music Editor:
Julian Olson
Painter:
Wendy Anderson
Nance Thacker
Producer:
Margaret Pettigrew
Recording Supervision:
Todd Warren
Adrian Croll
Sound Editor:
Clare Bambrough
Sound Supervisor:
Julian Olson
Writer:
Wendy Lill
Gloria Demers
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