HERitage minute - d-day
d-day 75th commermorative commercial
META Production's Christopher Petry directed Historica Canada’s latest Heritage Minute commemorating the 75th anniversary of D-Day. Mackenzie Lake and Heritage Park in Calgary were transformed to look like Juno Beach, France and Tailleville, Normandy telling the story of New Brunswick native Maj. John Archibald MacNaughton.
Heritage Park was transformed into a bombed out Juno Beach by the visual effects of META Productions with on set supervision and post production by John Cameron.
Main production by executed by Bamboo Shoots.
Maclean's magazine and Calgary Herald wrote articles on how Mackenzie Lake and Heritage Park in Calgary were transformed to look like Juno Beach, France and Tailleville, Normandy telling the story of New Brunswick native Maj. John Archibald MacNaughton. Forty-seven years old and a veteran of the First World War, MacNaughton had more than earned his right to retire from the battlefield and raise his family in Canada. But he felt obligated to lead the young soldiers of the North Shore New Brunswick Regiment into Normandy.
