Grain Elevator

Grain Elevator

1981 · 16 min · ★ 7.0 · Documentary

This documentary short is a visual portrait of “Prairie Sentinels,” the vertical grain elevators that once dotted the Canadian Prairies. Surveying an old diesel elevator’s day-to-day operations, this film is a simple, honest vignette on the distinctive wooden structures that would eventually become a symbol of the Prairie provinces.

Directed by Charles Konowal

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