''Document'' is a Canadian documentary television series that aired once a month on
CBC Television
CBC Television (also known as CBC TV, or simply CBC) is a Television in Canada, Canadian English-language terrestrial television, broadcast television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcasting, p ...
from 1962 to 1969.
This innovative series featured various documentaries, employing both
direct cinema
Direct cinema is a documentary genre that originated between 1958 and 1962—principally in Quebec and the United States—and was developed in France by Jean Rouch. It is a cinematic practice employing lightweight portable filming equipment, han ...
and traditional
documentary
A documentary film (often described simply as a documentary) is a nonfiction Film, motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". The American author and ...
techniques.
The series, appearing on occasional random days and times, was given a monthly schedule in 1965 as a mid-year replacement for ''This Hour Has Seven Days''.
The ''
Toronto Telegram
''The Toronto Evening Telegram'' was a conservative, broadsheet afternoon newspaper published in Toronto from 1876 to 1971. It had a reputation for supporting the Conservative Party at the federal and the provincial levels. The paper competed wit ...
''s Chester Bloom expressed criticism of bias over the broadcast of "The Servant of All" episode of September 16, 1962. Bloom's politics sided with the
Progressive Conservative party.
Production
The first executive producers for this series were
Patrick Watson and
Douglas Leiterman
Douglas Leiterman (1927 – 19 December 2012) was a Canadian television producer.
Early life
Douglas Stone Leiterman was born in 1927 in South Porcupine, Ontario. In 1945, before his 18th birthday, he joined the Canadian Merchant Navy and becam ...
, whose intention was to air a documentary approximately each month to provide a detailed treatment of a subject. By the second season, Leiterman became executive producer on ''
This Hour Has Seven Days'' and focused his attention on that series; Watson became a host of ''Document'' at that time.
Richard Nielsen became executive producer during the final episodes.
Episodes
References
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CBC Television original programming
1962 Canadian television series debuts
1969 Canadian television series endings