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The World In Action
''The World in Action'' (aka ''World in Action'') was a monthly series of propaganda films from the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), created to boost morale and show the Allied war effort during the Second World War. The series was inspired by the success of the NFB's ''Canada Carries On'' series. Patterned after the popular American ''March of Time'' newsreels, ''The World in Action'' was designed to appear to a broader international audience than ''Canada Carries On'' . It was distributed internationally by United Artists.Ohayon, Albert"Propaganda cinema at the NFB – The World in Action."''National Film Board of Canada'', September 30, 2009. Retrieved: January 11, 2016. ''The World in Action'' series was produced in 35 mm for the theatrical market. Each film was shown over a six-month period as part of the shorts or newsreel segments in approximately 800 theatres across Canada. The NFB had an arrangement with Famous Players theatres to ensure that Canadians from coas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Film Board Of Canada
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB; french: Office national du film du Canada (ONF)) is Canada's public film and digital media producer and distributor. An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB produces and distributes documentary films, animation, web documentaries, and alternative dramas. In total, the NFB has produced over 13,000 productions since its inception, which have won over 5,000 awards. The NFB reports to the Parliament of Canada through the Minister of Canadian Heritage. It has bilingual production programs and branches in English and French, including multicultural-related documentaries. History Canadian Government Motion Picture Bureau The Exhibits and Publicity Bureau was founded on 19 September 1918, and was reorganized into the Canadian Government Motion Picture Bureau in 1923. The organization's budget stagnated and declined during the Great Depression. Frank Badgley, who served as the bureau's director from 1927 to 1941, stated that the bure ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Daly (filmmaker)
Thomas Cullen Daly, OC (April 25, 1918 – September 18, 2011) was a Canadian film producer, film editor and film director, who was the head of Studio B at the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) in the 1950s and 1960s. On April 27, 2000, he was honored by being made an Officer in the OC (Order of Canada). During his 44-year career at the NFB, Daly produced and executive-produced more than 300 films."NFB pioneer Tom Daly dies at age 93." '''' September 21, 2011. Retrieved: May 2, 2016. Early years Daly learned the art of film editing from filmmaker Stuart Legg and doc ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian World War II Propaganda Films
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of French and then the much larger British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian identity. Canada has also been strongly influenced by its linguistic, geographic, and eco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The World In Action
''The World in Action'' (aka ''World in Action'') was a monthly series of propaganda films from the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), created to boost morale and show the Allied war effort during the Second World War. The series was inspired by the success of the NFB's ''Canada Carries On'' series. Patterned after the popular American ''March of Time'' newsreels, ''The World in Action'' was designed to appear to a broader international audience than ''Canada Carries On'' . It was distributed internationally by United Artists.Ohayon, Albert"Propaganda cinema at the NFB – The World in Action."''National Film Board of Canada'', September 30, 2009. Retrieved: January 11, 2016. ''The World in Action'' series was produced in 35 mm for the theatrical market. Each film was shown over a six-month period as part of the shorts or newsreel segments in approximately 800 theatres across Canada. The NFB had an arrangement with Famous Players theatres to ensure that Canadians from coas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Now — The Peace
''Now — The Peace'' is a film produced and directed in 1945 by Stuart Legg for the National Film Board of Canada series ''The World in Action'', with unaccredited narration by Lorne Greene. Over its nearly 21-minute running time, circumstances during the immediate postwar period following the Second World War, leading to the formation of the United Nations are discussed. Synopsis After the First World War, the League of Nations was created, but despite the efforts of leaders such as Woodrow Wilson, the organization failed to ensure world peace. The concept of collective security against attack was thought to be the means to stop wars. The constant conflicts of the 1930s with Japanese aggression in China, Italian invasion of Ethiopia and the beginning of the Spanish Civil War showed how ineffective the League had become. During the Second World War, in an attempt to reinvigorate efforts directed to prevent future wars, the "five great powers" met in August and September 194 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zero Hour (1944 Film)
''Zero Hour'' is a 22-minute 1944 Canadian documentary film, made by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) as part of both the wartime ''Canada Carries On'' and ''The World in Action'' series. The film was produced by Stuart Legg. ''Zero Hour'' describes the Axis and Allied invasions that have taken place during the Second World War. Synopsis During the Second World War, the Axis powers employed joint or combined operations to launch invasions in Europe and Asia. In Norway, Nazi Germany launched an amphibious invasion while the island of Crete was overwhelmed by an airborne invasion. Japan also had been successful in its Japanese imperialist wars in Asia. In all instances, the invading forces were able to strike quickly using small lightweight weaponry and use the elements of surprise and combined forces to achieve victory. By 1940, the Allies, who had been reeling from the many defeats, had learned the hard tactical lessons with England being the first to react. After creat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon Weisenborn
Gordon Weisenborn (March 20, 1923 – October 4, 1987) was an American director, producer, writer, and cinematographer specializing in sponsored and educational films. His works express a style that blends naturalism and lyricism with modernist abstraction. Many of Weisenborn's films address race and issues of diversity, and his film ''People Along the Mississippi'' (1952), produced with John Barnes, is credited as being the first classroom film to depict interracial friendship. He worked with John Barnes on the Academy Award nominated film '' The Living City'' (1953), and won over 70 national and international awards for films and productions. He was listed as one of the top 20 makers of specialized film by the Directors Guild. Personal life Weisenborn was born in Chicago to Rudolph and Fritzie Weisenborn, who were both figures in the arts communities. Weisenborn's father was an internationally recognized Chicago Modernist painter and art instructor who is credited with creatin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
When Asia Speaks
''When Asia Speaks'' is a 19-minute film produced in 1944 by Stuart Legg and directed by Gordon Weisenborn for the National Film Board of Canada series ''The World in Action''. The film is narrated by broadcaster Lorne Greene. ''When Asia Speaks'' describes the disparity between the riches of Asia and the poverty of the masses during the Second World War that have led to nationalist movements in Asia. The film's French version title is ''Le Réveil de l'Asie''. Synopsis In 1944, during the Second World War, Allied forces are beginning to occupy Axis-occupied Asia. The vast area represents 1/2 of the world's population and unlimited natural resources. Although the Empire of Japan in attempting to establish the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, had ruled the occupied Asian populations with a heavy hand for years, the Japanese government and military reversed its policies in an attempt to sway cooperation. At the same time, great forces are also at work in the Indian sub-conti ... [...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] |
Our Northern Neighbour
''Our Northern Neighbour'' is a film produced in 1944 by Stuart Legg and directed by Tom Daly for the National Film Board of Canada series ''The World in Action''. The film is narrated by broadcaster Lorne Greene. Synopsis In 1943, during the Second World War, three great powers come together at the Tehran Conference to decide the state of the Allied war effort. One of the three powers that has emerged as a key player is the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, led by Joseph Stalin. The effectiveness of their Allied cooperation depends heavily on the United States and the United Kingdom having an understanding of the nature and history of their other partner, the Soviet Union. In First World War, after the October Revolution of November 1917, Communist Party leader Vladimir Lenin overthrew the last Russian Tsar, Nicholas II. The Soviet Union was subsequently officially established in December 1922. After Lenin's death in 1924, Stalin emerged as the new leader. Throughout the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Global Air Routes
''Global Air Routes'' is a 14-minute 1944 Canadian documentary film produced by the National Film Board of Canada, directed and edited by Stuart Legg. The film is part of ''The World in Action'' series. Legg directed a number of documentaries for both ''The World in Action'' and earlier ''Canada Carries On'' series.Boon, Tim"Legg, Stuart (1910-1988)."''Screenonline, ''. Retrieved: January 10, 2016. Many of the documentaries were created as morale-boosting propaganda films during the Second World War.Galloway, Bill"Canadian Second World War propaganda films."'' CBC'', 2015 (originally broadcast on March 31, 1979). Retrieved: January 10, 2016. Synopsis In 1944, the Allied nations, including Canada, created air supply routes to transport both troops and war materiel from home bases and factories to the battlefield. The United States Army Air Forces Air Transport Command, however, carried the bulk of all air transport across a global system of airfields and terminals that spanned five ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Marsh Beveridge
Jane Marsh Beveridge (born Jane Smart; December 2, 1915 – September 16, 1998) was a Canadians, Canadian Film director, director, Film producer, producer, Film editing, editor, composer, screenwriter, teacher and Sculpture, sculptor. She was best known as one of the pioneering filmmaking, filmmakers at the National Film Board of Canada (NFB).Martineau, Barbara Halpern"Leading Ladies Behind the Camera."''Cinema Canada'' January–February 1981, p. 23.Barker 2006, pp. 37, 40. Early years and education Jane Smart was born in Ottawa, Ontario to Russel S. Smart and Emma Louise ("Louie") Parr; her father was a successful, self-made patent attorney. Russell and Louise had four children: Helen (b. 1909), Elizabeth Smart (Canadian author), Elizabeth (b. 1913), Jane (b. 1915) and Russell Jr. (b. 1921). The family had a summer house, which they named "The Barge", on Kingsmere, Quebec, Kingsmere Lake located next door to the future Prime Minister of Canada, William Lyon Mackenzie King.Broo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
