The Associated Screen News of Canada (ASN) was incorporated in 1920 by the Canadian Pacific Railway in

Montreal Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the second-most populous city in Canada and most populous city in the Canadian province of Quebec. Founded in 1642 as '' Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", it is named after Mount Royal, the triple ...

. Ben Norrish, who formerly worked for the Canadian Government Motion Picture Bureau, was appointed its director. In the period from 1921 to 1958 ASN, the largest private film production company in Canada of the first half of the 20th century, produced the majority of newsreels, shorts and industrial films in Canada. In addition to commissioned films, ASN produced films for theatrical release, out of which came the celebrated ''Canadian Cameo'' series (from 1932 to 1954). This series of 85 theatrical short films was totally the creation of

Gordon Sparling Gordon Sparling (1900-1994) was a pioneering Canadian film maker. He was educated at Trinity College in the University of Toronto. He directed such early Canadian films as '' The Tidy House (La maison en ordre)'' in 1936 and '' The Kinsmen'' in 1 ...

. It represented Canada's only creative film effort in the 1930s. Each film was approximately 10 minutes in length and covered a range of subject matter, ranging from sport, to historical compilations about Canada, and Canadians, to portraits and aspects of Canadian life and activities.{{cite book, last1=Wise, first1=Wyndham, title=Take One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film, date=2001, publisher=University of Toronto Press, location=Toronto, isbn=0-8020-3512-4, page=231; 238, url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oveMBgAAQBAJ&q=take+one%27s+essential+guide+to+canadian+film, accessdate=March 30, 2017

Films

* ''Championship Wrestling'' (1932), * ''The Pathfinder'' (1932), * ''Carnival on Skates'' (1930), * ''Shadow River'' (1933), * ''Rhapsody in Two Languages'' (1934), * ''The Kinsmen'' (1937), * ''Music from the Stars'' (1938), * ''Royal Banners over Ottawa'' (1940, colour), * ''Skiways'' (1940, colour), * ''Ten Thousand Days'' (1942), * ''Spitzmarks the Spot'' (1948), * ''Ski in the Sky'' (1949, colour), * ''Rocky Eden'' (1949, colour), * ''All about Emily'' (1949), * ''Cowboy's Holiday'' (1950, colour), * ''The Great Divide'' (1951, colour), * ''Royal Welcome'' (1951, colour), * ''The Beloved Fish'' (1954, colour)

References

External links

Associated Screen News
at the Canadian Educational, Sponsored, and Industrial Film (CESIF) Project, Concordia University 1920 establishments in Quebec Canadian Pacific Railway subsidiaries Newsreels Mass media companies of Canada