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November 16, 2009 - Lakes to Locks Passage Helps Produce Samuel de Champlain Documentary

Celebrate the 400th anniversary of Champlain’s journeys by attending the premiere of the animated documentary, “Dead Reckoning ~ Champlain in America,” on Tuesday at the Cumberland 12 Cinemas in Plattsburgh, N.Y.

In partnership with Lakes to Locks Passage and the New York State Hudson-Fulton-Champlain Quadricentennial Commission, and teaming with Montreal-based Artifex Animation Studio, Mountain Lake PBS produced this fully animated documentary on French explorer Samuel de Champlain’s explorations in North America.

Mountain Lake PBS says the documentary drew on current American and Canadian academic research and scholarship and was made in collaboration with cutting-edge animators and filmmakers on both sides of the border. The PBS station claims the first historically accurate, completely animated documentary on Champlain.

Extracts taken from the Adirondack Daily Enterprise website.

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