"All too often people dealing with history, studying history, think only of what's in a book, what's in the printed word. So, we wanted to tell people that really, there's so much in our history that's in audio recordings, radio programs, television programs, newsreels, and film." - Rosemary Bergeron
Telephone interview with Archivist Rosemary Bergeron, of the Moving Image and Sound Archives, National Archives of Canada, about the Archives’ exhibition Beyond the Printed Word, with interviewer Tim Keele of CJRT-FM on September 16, 1988.
Uploaded here is a digital audio file of that interview, courtesy JAZZ.FM91…
The original audio broadcast database entry can be found online at Library & Archives Canada HERE.
Tribute to Past Broadcasters
Also included here, the video, Tribute to Past Broadcasters from LAC vaults, as part of the Beyond the Printed Word exhibition HERE.
LAC Description: excerpts from exhibition clips – 14 Sept. ’52 – Lorne Greene “Newsmagazine”; – 23 October ’43 – Matthew Halton; – 4 July 1944 – Marcel Ouimet; – 7 October ’58 – René Lévesque “Point de Mire”; – 2 November ’46 – Raymond Laplante; – 31 March 1960 – Earl Cameron, Norman Depoe; – 6 September 1952 – Judith Jasmin; – 18 June 1962 – Bruce Marsh; – 2 April 1953 – Don Jamieson; – 24 June 1972 – Gaéton Barrette “Le Téléjournal”; – introductory sequence.
This research was initiated when I came across an entry at the Museum of Science & Technology website, of a camera, claimed to have been used in Korea, and on D-day. To my surprise the camera turned out to have an integral link to the Beyond the Printed Word Exhibition, and the donor. Watch it here, and also on the CanadianFilmandPhotoUnit.ca website.
Rosemary Bergeron was an invaluable resource at the National Archives of Canada. I still find myself thanking her regularly for sharing many of her notes with me on early Canadian film pioneers and the men and women of the Canadian Army Film & Photo Unit.
© Dale Gervais 2025
