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Canada Day
Location
Main screening room
Date
July 1st, 2023
Duration
68 min
Cycle
Canada Day

To mark Canada Day, three films detailing three milestones in documentary history: production at Associated Screen News, whose films have been produced since the silent era and were often publicly funded; the emergence of Crawley Films, for many years the largest private film company in English Canada; and the development and flourishing of the documentary genre at the National Film Board of Canada.

The Spy of Nictau
Directed by
Terry Ramsaye
Language
Silent, English Intertitles
Origins
Québec
Year
1925
Duration
7 min
Genre
Silent, Documentary
Format
Digital
Synopsis

Documentary on hunting and fishing.

The Spy of Nictau
L'Île d'Orléans
Directed by
Frank Radford Crawley, Judith Crawley
Language
Silent, English Intertitles
Origins
Québec
Year
1937
Duration
18 min
Genre
Silent, Documentary
Format
Digital
Synopsis

Travel film of Ile d'Orléans, with detailed depiction of the landscape, churches, houses and fields. Shot in Kodachrome.

L'Île d'Orléans
Un lendemain comme hier
Directed by
Maurice Bulbulian
Language
French
Origins
Québec
Year
1970
Duration
40 min
Genre
Documentary
Format
Digital
Synopsis

A family from Lac-Saint-Jean became Montrealers to escape unemployment. The parents never adapted. Every year, they return to their "lost paradise" with their children for the blueberry harvest.

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