Celebrating the art, style, and history of the men and women that recorded our nation's cinematic past.

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Pursuing History: The Joys and Hazards of Following All the Stories of the Past

Experienced by Ernest J. Dick Granville Ferry, Nova Scotia This memoir is dedicated to Nance, my life-partner for 49 years, who witnessed and weathered my working and playing with the…

June 1, 2023

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Life through a Lens: Memoirs of a Cinematographer. (book review)

TAKE ONE, May 2002, by James Forrester Memoir by Osmond Borradaile. Edited by Anita Borradaile Hadley McGill-Queens University Press, 2001 $49.95 “Life through a Lens: Memoirs of a Cinematographer (book review)” by James Forrester was originally published in Take One, May 2002. Reprinted with permission of the author.…

November 5, 2026

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Summer of ’76 and Three Canadian Feature Film Locations

By James Forrester (20 Jan. 2026) First published online at, ARTHUR, February 18, 2026 “We All Begin in Little Magazines” was the title of a short story by Canadian ex-pat…

August 15, 2026

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“Pretty vacant, eh?” Dennis Hopper and Out of the Blue

February 4, 2024

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The Movie Years: Trenton, Ontario, 1917-1934

One wonders what life in Trenton, Ontario might have been like today had predictions made in the early part of the 20th century come true. For Trenton was to be…

September 29, 2021

A Theatre Near You 150 Years of Going to the Show in Ottawa-Gatineau Alain Miguelez Archives of Canadian Arts, Culture, and Heritage

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BOOKS: A Theatre Near You

A movie theatre is something special. It’s a business, but not like just any business. It doesn’t compare to a gas station or a hardware store. It’s built to entertain…

February 11, 2008