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Associated Screen News

MOVIE: CIRCUS ON ICE.

“Hurry, hurry, hurry!…step right up to see the latest thing in show business…the Big Top on ice! See the only dragon in captivity…the ferocious “wild beasts”…the Dance of death…all a…

February 18, 2026

History

The Origin of Motion Picture Production in Canada

Introduction When people are asked to define Canadian film-making, or give an example of a distinctive Canadian style, many cite the work of the National Film Board. Peter Morris has…

January 10, 2022

Films·Technology

Nass River Indians (Reconstruction)

Although little known today, the 1928 Canadian movie, Saving the Sagas, is an early example of a film recording the presence of the ethnographic fieldworker...…

July 22, 2021

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…