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7th Canadian Film Awards
The 7th Canadian Film Awards were announced in 1955 to honour achievements in Canadian film.Maria Topalovich, ''And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards''. Stoddart Publishing, 2000. . pp. 29-31. Due to organizational constraints, the award organizers did not plan or stage a ceremony this year, instead announcing the winners solely by press release. Winners Films *Film of the Year: ''The Stratford Adventure'' — Morten Parker *Theatrical Documentary: ''The Stratford Adventure'' — Morten Parker *Theatrical Short: ''no winner'' ::Honorable Mention: '' High Tide in Newfoundland'' — Grant McLean *Non-Theatrical, Open: ''Riches of the Earth'' — Colin Low ::Honorable Mention: ''One Little Indian'' — Grant Munro *Non-Theatrical, Government Sponsored: ''Gift of the Glaciers'' — K. Hutchinson ::Honorable Mention: ''The Homeless Ones'' — Leslie McFarlane *Non-Theatrical, Non-Government Sponsored: ''Where None Shall Trust'' — Anson C. Moor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
6th Canadian Film Awards
The 6th Canadian Film Awards were presented on May 10, 1954 to honour achievements in Canadian film.Maria Topalovich, ''And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards''. Stoddart Publishing, 2000. . pp. 25-27. The ceremony was hosted by J. R. White, the president of Imperial Oil. Winners Films *Film of the Year: '' The Seasons'' — Christopher Chapman *Theatrical Short: ''Farewell Oak Street'' — Grant McLean ::Honourable mention: '' Danish Seining'' — Herman Noelle ::Honourable mention: '' The Settler (L'Abatis)'' — Bernard Devlin *Non-Theatrical, Open: '' The Seasons'' — Christopher Chapman ::Honourable mention: ''Embryonic Development of the Chick'' — J. V. Durden *Non-Theatrical, Government Sponsored: ''World at Your Feet'' — Larry Gosnell ::Honourable mention: ''Everybody's Handicapped'' — John Ross *Non-Theatrical, Non-Government Sponsored: ''Episode in Valleydale'' — George Gorman ::Honourable mention: ''Polysar'' — Peter Cock ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Film Awards
The Canadian Film Awards were the leading Canadian cinema awards from 1949 until 1978. These honours were conducted annually, except in 1974 when a number of Quebec directors withdrew their participation and prompted a cancellation. In the 1970s they were also sometimes known as the Etrog Awards for sculptor Sorel Etrog, who designed the statuette. The awards were succeeded by the Academy of Canadian Cinema's Genie Awards in 1980; beginning in 2013 the Academy merged the Genie Awards with its separate Gemini Awards program for television to create the contemporary Canadian Screen Awards. History The award was first established in 1949 by the Canadian Association for Adult Education, under a steering committee that included the National Film Board's James Beveridge, the Canadian Foundation's Walter Herbert, filmmaker F. R. Crawley, the National Gallery of Canada's Donald Buchanan and diplomat Graham McInnes. The initial jury consisted of Hye Bossin, managing editor of ''Canadi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
8th Canadian Film Awards
The 8th Canadian Film Awards were held on August 6, 1956 to honour achievements in Canadian film.Maria Topalovich, ''And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards''. Stoddart Publishing, 2000. . pp. 33-35. The ceremony was hosted by actor Maurice Evans. Winners *Theatrical Short: ''Gold'' — Colin Low ::Honorable Mention: ''Jolifou Inn'' — Colin Low ::Honorable Mention: ''The Shepherd'' — Julian Biggs *TV Information: ''Saskatchewan Traveller'' — Don Haldane ::Honorable Mention: ''Monkey on the Back'' — Julian Biggs ::Honorable Mention: ''L'Alpinisme'' — R. Gamble *Non-Theatrical Open: ''Colour of Life'' — J. V. Durden ::Honorable Mention: ''Les Aboiteaux'' — Roger Blais ::Honorable Mention: ''Face of Saskatchewan'' — Stanley Moore *Non-Theatrical, Government Sponsored: ''First Aid for Air Crew'' — Walford Hewitson ::Honorable Mention: ''Huff & Puff'' — Grant Crabtree ::Honorable Mention: ''Identity'' — Nova Scotia Film Bur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stoddart Publishing
Stoddart Publishing was a Canadian book publisher and distributor, owned by Jack Stoddart, which ceased operations in 2002.UncreditedBook giant Stoddart files for creditor protection CBC News, May 1, 2002. Retrieved 2016-01-15. History General Publishing purchased Musson in 1967 from Hodder & Stoughton. Stoddart Publishing took over the Canadian publishing line of Musson in 1984. In 1995, Stoddart published a book by photographer Jock Carroll, ''Glenn Gould: Some Portraits of the Artist as a Young Man'', being a collection of photographs of the late Canadian pianist, accompanied by captions written by Carroll. The photographs and narrative were based on an interview with and photos taken by Carroll of Glenn Gould in 1956, at the initiative of Gould's agent. Gould had died in 1982. Gould's estate and his personal corporation sued Stoddart and Carroll for misappropriation of personality without consent or compensation. The actions were unsuccessful, based on Gould's unrestric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Stratford Adventure
''The Stratford Adventure'' is a 1954 National Film Board of Canada documentary film about the founding of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, directed by Morten Parker. It tells the story of what was to become North America's premiere Shakespearean festival, on the banks of the Avon River in the small Ontario town of Stratford. It was named Film of the Year at the Canadian Film Awards and nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 27th Academy Awards. Cast * Michael Bates as Himself * Timothy Findley as Himself * Alec Guinness as Himself * Tyrone Guthrie as Himself * Irene Worth as Herself See also * William Shakespeare William Shakespeare ( 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's nation ... References External links *Watch ''The Stratford Adventure'' at NFB.ca 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Tide In Newfoundland
''Canada Carries On'' (French: ''En avant Canada'') was a series of short films by the National Film Board of Canada which ran from 1940 to 1959. The series was initially created as morale-boosting propaganda films during the Second World War. With the end of the war, the series lost its financial backing from the Wartime Information Board, but continued as an NFB series of theatrical shorts that included newsreels as well as animated shorts.Morris, Peter''Canadian Film Encyclopedia''(Film Reference Library). Retrieved: January 11, 2016. The series was initially produced by Stuart Legg, who also directed many of the early films. The first film in the series was Legg's ''Atlantic Patrol'', released in April 1940, about the Royal Canadian Navy's role in protecting convoys from Halifax to the United Kingdom from U-boat attack.Ellis and McLan2005, p. 122./ref> One of the most famous films from this series was his ''Churchill's Island'', released in Canada in June 1941 and winner of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grant McLean (film Producer)
Grant McLean, CM (April 7, 1921 – December 19, 2002) was a Canadian film director and producer. For most of his professional career he worked with the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), serving as its acting Commissioner for a period during the 1960s. McLean was born in Yorkton, Saskatchewan. His father Allan Grant McLean was a grain commissioner and Liberal Party politician, and his uncle Ross McLean also served as chairman of the NFB. McLean studied at the University of Toronto, before joining the NFB in 1941 as a cameraman. One of the notable productions he worked on during World War II was the documentary ''Target Berlin'' for the ''Canada Carries On'' series, which showed the building of the first Lancaster bomber to be made in Canada, with McLean later flying in the plane to capture footage of a bombing raid over Berlin in Germany. He became a film director in 1947, with his first production in this capacity being ''The People Between'', a documentary about the Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Low (filmmaker)
Colin Archibald Low (July 24, 1926 – February 24, 2016) was a Canadian animation and documentary filmmaker with the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). Colin Low born in Cardston, Alberta, Low attended the Banff School of Fine Arts and the Calgary Institute of Technology, now known as the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology. His NFB career in Montreal spanned over six decades, on more than 200 productions, most often as director, producer, or executive producer. He died on February 24, 2016 in Montreal, Quebec. Early work Low's 1952 animated short, '' The Romance of Transportation in Canada'', won a Short Film Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, a special BAFTA Award and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Cartoons. His 1954 documentary ''Corral'' received was named best documentary at the Venice Film Festival. He followed that with a second documentary shot in southern Alberta, the 1960 film ''Circle of the Sun'', which marked the fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grant Munro (filmmaker)
Grant Munro LL. D. (April 25, 1923 – December 9, 2017) was a Canadian animator, filmmaker and actor. In 1952, he starred with Jean-Paul Ladouceur in Norman McLaren's ''Neighbours''. He worked on the films ''Two Bagatelles'' (1953), ''Seven Surprizes'' (1963), ''Christmas Cracker'' (1963) and ''Canon'' (1964). His film, ''Christmas Cracker'', was nominated for an Academy Award in 1962. Early life Munro was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He had a sister, Gail, and a brother, Brian. Munro was educated at the Robert H. Smith school, Queenston school, and Gordon Bell High, before attending the Musgrove School of Art and the Winnipeg School of Art. Earning an honor diploma from the Ontario College of Art in 1944, he then joined the National Film Board, Canada's public film producer and distributor. Career Munro's work as an animator first won note during 1945, setting the songs "My Darling Clementine" and "The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze" to animated cut-outs. In 1952 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leslie McFarlane
Charles Leslie McFarlane (October 25, 1902 – September 6, 1977) was a Canadian journalist, novelist, screenwriter, and filmmaker, who is most famous for ghostwriting many of the early books in the very successful ''Hardy Boys'' series, using the pseudonym Franklin W. Dixon. Biography Early life The son of a school principal, McFarlane was raised in the town of Haileybury, Ontario. He became a freelance writer shortly after high school. He and his family moved to Whitby, Ontario, in 1936. This period is described in his 1975 book ''A Kid in Haileybury''. Journalist As a young man he worked in Sudbury, Ontario, as a newspaper reporter, then for a weekly paper in Toronto, before taking a job at the ''Springfield Republican'' newspaper in Springfield, Massachusetts. Stratemeyer Syndicate While in the U.S., he replied to a want ad placed by the Stratemeyer Syndicate, publisher of such titles as ''Nancy Drew'', ''Tom Swift'' and the ''Bobbsey Twins''. As a result, he fre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corral (film)
''Corral'' is a 1954 National Film Board of Canada (NFB) short film documentary about the life of a cowboy, directed by Colin Low and produced by Tom Daly. It featured cinematography by Wolf Koenig and a musical score by Eldon Rathburn, and was produced as part of the NFB's postwar ''Canada Carries On'' series. Synopsis With the aid of a trained dog, a cowboy (Wallace Jensen) in southwestern Alberta, has located and rounded up a large herd of wild horses. Driving the mustangs into a corral at the Cochrane Ranch, he begins the process of "breaking" each horse. The process is a familiar one for cowboys that requires years of experience and a knowledge of handling horses. Selecting one wild horse that is marked with a white streak on its face, the cowboy lassoes the horse and cinches the rope to a large stump, gradually pulling the animal closer to him. Once the wild horse gets used to his hands near the head, ears and neck, the cowboy ties a rope halter on its head. The next st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Palardy
Jean Palardy (1905November 28, 1991) was a French-Canadian painter, art historian, ethnologist and filmmaker. Biography Born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, Palardy moved with his family to Canada as a child in 1908, one of eight children. He was educated at Collège Saint-Laurent and the séminaire de Sainte-Thérèse, before studying at the École des Beaux-Arts de Montréal. He married painter Jori Smith in 1930. Palardy and Smith were both members of the League for Social Reconstruction, with his interest in French Canadian rural life influenced by his political beliefs. Artist Jack Humphrey stayed with Palardy and his wife, Jori Smith, while living briefly in Montreal, with the three of them in poverty, supporting themselves during the winter of 1933 by painting matchboxes. He was responsible for the interior design of the in Quebec's Laurentian region in 1939. He joined the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) in 1941 and over 19 years directed a number of short films t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |