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Crawley College

February 20, 2025
by James A. Forrester F. R. “Budge” Crawley (1911-1987) was a notable Canadian pioneer film producer who co-founded Crawley Films in Ottawa with his wife Judith (Sparks) Crawley (1914 -1986), following the encouragement of NFB founder and Scottish documentarian John Grierson, when…
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So, what’s a Canadian feature film?

July 28, 2024
By J. A. Forrester (revised for submission to Arthur, Canadianfilm.ca, 8July2024) While on a Paul Newman survey I dug out his directorial debut Rachel, Rachel (1968) on DVD, based on Margaret Laurence’s 1966 novel A Jest of God. Not bad for a…
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On the Trail with Grey Owl and Bert Bach

March 24, 2024
Above: featured image description: Grey Owl mending a snowshoe inside cabin, Lake Ajawaan, Saskatchewan, ca. 1933-1934, by W.J. Oliver. Courtesy of Glenbow Library and Archives Collection. By 1936 the dream of a lonely English boy playing Indian in the woods behind his house…
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Stanley Brede, CSC website

January 8, 2024
Many thanks to Cathy Brede for sharing her link to her website devoted to her father, Stanley Brede, CSC, Canadian photographer and cinematograher. “Hi Dale. Roughly 6 years ago I contacted you, while you were still at LAC, for advice about making…
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What Sponsor Program! An unknown history of the NFB

March 26, 2023
Feature image: Hot Stuff. Directed by Zlatko Grgic. Produced by Robert Verrall. Photo taken from the production. © 1971 National Film Board of Canada. All rights reserved. Image courtesy; Jimena Romero, Coordinator, media relations, Communications and public affairs, National Film Board of…

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Frederick Conway Edmonds

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Frederick Conway Edmonds of Lindsay, Ontario, was one of the first travelling showmen in Canada. Born in England on June 2, 1850, he had come to Canada as a young man. He was a ventriloquist, magician, and theatre manager and had managed…
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Burton S. Moore

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Coming Soon… From Library & Archives Canada; Biography / Administrative history: Moore, Burton S: Burton S. Moore (fl. 1922-1969) was a wildlife filmmaker and inventor of a 35mm camera. His film Wildlife in New Brunswick represents the earliest use of a telephoto…

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Lt. Pierre-Malcolm “Trapper” Stevens

September 1, 1934 – March 11, 2020 TRAPPER STEVENS Recollections of a eulogy by Anthony Hyde (used with permission) I say “recollections” because I was making things up as I went along — surely appropriate since I was talking about Traps —…
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NFB Memories

"I had occasion recently to read an account of the life and work of Louis Applebaum, who brought Dad to join the Music Department at the NFB. In it, the author, Walter Pitman, referred to “the old barn on Sussex Avenue”, and…
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A Movietone News Family

My father William James Pearson (WJPIII) and I shared the exact same name, and (by co-incidence), the same jobs in film, with the same company, and the same role path within it. WJPIII got his foot in the door in this fledgling…
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