The Impossible Map

1947
6.8| 0h10m| NA| en| More Info
Released: 01 January 1947 Released
Producted By: ONF | NFB
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Official Website: https://www.nfb.ca/film/impossible_map
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Development in long-range travel and the growing importance of the Arctic and Antarctic regions make it necessary to understand how maps may be misleading. Experiments with a grapefruit illustrate the difficulty of presenting a true picture of the world on a flat surface and it is concluded that the globe is the most accurate way of representing the earth.

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Evelyn Lambart

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ONF | NFB

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BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment
Lawbolisted Powerful
Pacionsbo Absolutely Fantastic
Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
MartinHafer This is the sort of short film that probably makes geography teachers salivate! Heck, as a history teacher, I find it all rather interesting as well. This short film sponsored by the National Film Board of Canada illustrates why a flat map cannot accurately portray the planet's surface. Using a variety of illustrations using round objects (such as a grapefruit), they show that no matter how the map is drawn, once it is flattened a portion of the Earth is highly distorted.The problem, though, is that to students, this all will probably seem pretty boring--not just because of the subject matter but because of the style of the film. The narrator has no life at all in his voice and the film could have used more energy. Still, however, their use of stop-motion to create maps is impressive and with a bit of updating, this would be a great film.