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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] |
Stratford Shakespeare Festival
The Stratford Festival is a theatre festival which runs from April to October in the city of Stratford, Ontario, Stratford, Ontario, Canada. Founded by local journalist Tom Patterson (theatre producer), Tom Patterson in 1952, the festival was formerly known as the Stratford Shakespearean Festival, the Shakespeare Festival and the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. The festival was one of the first festival, arts festivals in Canada and continues to be one of its most prominent. It is recognized worldwide for its productions of Shakespearean plays. The festival's primary focus is to present Stratford Festival production history, productions of William Shakespeare's plays, but it has a range of theatre productions from Greek tragedy to Broadway musicals and contemporary works. In the early years of the festival, Shakespeare's works typically represented approximately one third of the offerings in the largest venue, the Festival Theatre. More recently, however, the festival's focus has ... [...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] |
1956 Film Awards
Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim Elliot and Pete Fleming, are killed for trespassing by the Huaorani people of Ecuador, shortly after making contact with them. * January 16 – Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser vows to reconquer Palestine. * January 25– 26 – Finnish troops reoccupy Porkkala, after Soviet troops vacate its military base. Civilians can return February 4. * January 26 – The 1956 Winter Olympics open in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. February * February 11 – British spies Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean resurface in the Soviet Union, after being missing for 5 years. * February 14–February 25, 25 – The 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union is held in Moscow. * February 16 – The 1956 World Figure Skating Championships open in Garmisch, West Germany. * February 22 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley Jackson (filmmaker)
Stanley Jackson (1914-1981) was a Canadian film director, producer, writer and narrator with the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). Biography Jackson began his career as a schoolteacher in Winnipeg, before taking a teaching position in Toronto. There, in 1942, he was hired by NFB producer Stuart Legg to conduct research for the new NFB series ''Canada Carries On''. He wrote and directed the first film he worked on, '' Battle of the Harvests''. At the time, Tom Daly was putting together the NFB’s now-famous Unit B; Jackson and Colin Low were its first two members. They were joined by Terence Macartney-Filgate, Robert Verrall, Norman McLaren, Roman Kroitor, Don Owen, Arthur Lipsett, Wolf Koenig and Hugh O'Connor. Jackson soon distinguished himself as a writer, and as a narrator. He wrote most of his own scripts, and created a characteristic narration style for NFB, becoming known as ‘the voice of the NFB’. Of the 130 films he made, he was the narrator of 82, and Low ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Blais (filmmaker)
Roger Blais (February 6, 1917 – November 9, 2012) was a Canadian film director and producer, who played a key role in the development and expansion of the Quebec division of the National Film Board of Canada."NFB stalwart loved telling stories of his native Quebec to rest of country and world" '''', November 26, 2012. As a filmmaker, he was most noted for the films '''' and '' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julian Biggs
Julian Biggs (1920 in Port Perry, Ontario – 1972 in Montreal) was a director, producer and administrator with the National Film Board of Canada for 20 years responsible for two Academy Award nominees, ''Herring Hunt'' (1953, as director) and '' Paddle to the Sea'' (1966, as producer). Career A graduate of University of Toronto who served in the Canadian army and navy during World War II, Julian Biggs joined the National Film Board as production assistant and writer in 1951. He became the director of English production at the Board in 1966, then returned to active directing in 1968. He was responsible for several of the early NFB dramas, the ''Perspective'' series, '' 23 Skidoo'' and ''The Little Fellow from Gambo''. He directed the Academy Award-nominated ''Herring Hunt'' and oversaw the production of nearly 200 films, including Don Owen's ''High Steel'' and ''Notes for a Film About Donna and Gail'', and Bill Mason's '' Paddle to the Sea'', the popular Oscar-nominated live-action ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Shepherd (1956 Film)
''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 World War II, 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jolifou Inn
''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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gold (1955 Film)
''Gold'' is a 1955 Canadian short documentary film, directed by Colin Low for the National Film Board of Canada. The film documents the process of placer gold mining near Dawson City, Yukon and shows how gold is trapped and hand-sorted before becoming gold brick. Low followed up with his 1957 film '' City of Gold'', which centred on the history of Dawson City during the Klondike Gold Rush. Awards * Edinburgh International Film Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland: Diploma of Merit, 1955 * 8th Canadian Film Awards, Stratford, Ontario: Gold Award, Theatrical Short 1956Maria Topalovich, ''And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards''. 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 ..., 2000. . pp. 33-35. * British Academy of Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stratford, Ontario
Stratford is a city on the Avon River within Perth County in southwestern Ontario, Canada, with a 2016 population of 31,465 in a land area of . Stratford is the seat of Perth County, which was settled by English, Irish, Scottish and German immigrants, in almost equal numbers, starting in the 1820s but primarily in the 1830s and 1840s. Most became farmers; even today, the area around Stratford is known for mixed farming, dairying and hog production. The area was settled in 1832, and the town and river were named after Stratford-upon-Avon, England. Stratford was incorporated as a town in 1859 and as a city in 1886. The first mayor was John Corry Wilson Daly and the current mayor is Dan Mathieson. The swan has become a symbol of the city. Each year twenty-four white swans are released into the Avon River. The town is noted for the Stratford Festival, which performs Shakespearean plays and other genres from May to October. History In 1832, the development of an area called "Li ... [...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] |
9th Canadian Film Awards
The 9th Canadian Film Awards were held on June 15, 1957 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. 37-39. The ceremony was hosted by Leonard Brockington. Due to dissatisfaction with the organization of the awards, there were no awards presented in almost any of the traditional film categories; instead, an increased number of special awards were given to individuals and organizations, and only the Amateur Film award was presented to films.Ronald Johnson, "Canadian Film Awards Honor 'Modest Effort'". ''The Globe and Mail'', June 17, 1957. Winners *John Grierson — "in recognition of his unique contribution to Canada's filmmaking and art industry" * Yorkton Film Council — "in recognition of its distinguished international film festival, which demonstrates the contribution of the film council movement in Canada" *Associated Screen Studios — "for its init ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
