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1st Canadian Film Awards
The 1st Canadian Film Awards were presented on April 27, 1949 to honour achievements in Canadian film.Maria Topalovich, ''And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards''. Stoddart Publishing, 2000. . pp. 5-7. The ceremony was hosted by Robert Winters. Winners *Film of the Year: ''The Loon's Necklace'' — F. R. Crawley *Documentary: ''Beans of Bounty'' — Leon Shelly ::''Feelings of Hostility'' — Robert Anderson ::''Drug Addict'' — Robert Anderson *Theatrical Short: ''Who Will Teach Your Child?'' — Stanley Jackson ::Honourable mention: ''Canadian Cameo Series'' — Bernard Norrish *Animated: '' Chantons Noël'' — Jean-Paul Ladouceur *Amateur: ''No winner'' ::Honourable mention: ''Suite Two'' — Dorothy Burritt ::Honourable mention: ''Making a Life Mask'' — Louis Shore *Special Awards: Norman McLaren, ''Dots'' and ''Loops'' — "in recognition of the experimental work of Norman McLaren in the field of animation" :: Paul L'Anglais, '' A Man and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elgin Theatre (Ottawa)
The Elgin Theatre was a historic movie theatre located at the corner of Lisgar and Elgin Street in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The 750 seat cinema opened in 1937, with the first film shown being ''Stand-In.'' This is a famous American comedy about Hollywood, with parodies of many components of the film industry.https://ottawa-trend.com/uk/eternal-759-zabuti-kinoteatry-ottavy For several decades it was one of Ottawa's premier theatres, and in 1947 it was the location of the world premiere of Mary Pickford's '' Sleep, My Love''. Owner Nat Taylor, of 20th Century Theatres, opened a second screen on an adjacent patch of land in December 1947. It earned the nickname of "Little Elgin". This makes Elgin the second such dual-screen theatres in Canada, a few months after the Hollywood Theatre in Toronto. In 1957, Taylor became frustrated of having to replace still-profitable films with new releases. For this reason, he put older releases on the second theatre while keeping new release ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley Jackson (filmmaker)
Stanley Jackson (1914-1981) was a Canadian film director, producer, writer and narrator with the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). Biography Jackson began his career as a schoolteacher in Winnipeg, before taking a teaching position in Toronto. There, in 1942, he was hired by NFB producer Stuart Legg to conduct research for the new NFB series '' Canada Carries On''. He wrote and directed the first film he worked on, '' Battle of the Harvests''. At the time, Tom Daly was putting together the NFB’s now-famous Unit B; Jackson and Colin Low were its first two members. They were joined by Terence Macartney-Filgate, Robert Verrall, Norman McLaren, Roman Kroitor, Don Owen, Arthur Lipsett, Wolf Koenig and Hugh O'Connor. Jackson soon distinguished himself as a writer, and as a narrator. He wrote most of his own scripts, and created a characteristic narration style for NFB, becoming known as ‘the voice of the NFB’. Of the 130 films he made, he was the narrator of 82, and Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1949 Film Awards
Events January * January 1 – A United Nations-sponsored ceasefire brings an end to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. The war results in a stalemate and the division of Kashmir, which still continues as of 2022. * January 2 – Luis Muñoz Marín becomes the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico. * January 11 – The first "networked" television broadcasts take place, as KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania goes on the air, connecting east coast and mid-west programming in the United States. * January 16 – Şemsettin Günaltay forms the new government of Turkey. It is the 18th government, last One-party state, single party government of the Republican People's Party. * January 17 – The first Volkswagen Beetle, VW Type 1 to arrive in the United States, a 1948 model, is brought to New York City, New York by Dutch businessman Ben Pon Sr., Ben Pon. Unable to interest dealers or importers in the Volkswagen, Pon sells the sample car to pay his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Man And His Sin
''A Man and His Sin'' (french: Un homme et son péché) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Paul Gury and released in 1949.Charles-Henri Ramond"Un homme et son péché – Film de Paul Gury" ''Films du Québec'', August 6, 2012. Adapted from Claude-Henri Grignon's 1933 novel ''Un homme et son péché'', the film stars Hector Charland as Séraphin Poudrier, the wealthy but miserly mayor of the village of Sainte-Adèle, Quebec, Nicole Germain as Donalda Laloge, a village resident who was given in marriage to Séraphin as payment for a family debt even though she is actually in love with her boyfriend Alexis Labranche ( Guy Provost), and Ovila Légaré as the village priest Antoine Labelle. However, the film did not replicate the plot of the original novel, in which Séraphin's miserliness led directly to Donalda's death; instead, it tells a story in which Séraphin loans Alexis $200 to buy a farm, but then uses his power to prevent Alexis from getting a job to repay him so that A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul L'Anglais
Paul may refer to: *Paul (given name), a given name (includes a list of people with that name) * Paul (surname), a list of people People Christianity *Paul the Apostle (AD c.5–c.64/65), also known as Saul of Tarsus or Saint Paul, early Christian missionary and writer * Pope Paul (other), multiple Popes of the Roman Catholic Church * Saint Paul (other), multiple other people and locations named "Saint Paul" Roman and Byzantine empire * Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus (c. 229 BC – 160 BC), Roman general * Julius Paulus Prudentissimus (), Roman jurist * Paulus Catena (died 362), Roman notary *Paulus Alexandrinus (4th century), Hellenistic astrologer * Paul of Aegina or Paulus Aegineta (625–690), Greek surgeon Royals *Paul I of Russia (1754–1801), Tsar of Russia *Paul of Greece (1901–1964), King of Greece Other people *Paul the Deacon or Paulus Diaconus (c. 720 – c. 799), Italian Benedictine monk *Paul (father of Maurice), the father of Maurice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman McLaren
William Norman McLaren, LL. D. (11 April 1914 – 27 January 1987) was a Scottish Canadian animator, director and producer known for his work for the National Film Board of Canada (NFB).Rosenthal, Alan. ''The new documentary in action: a casebook in film making''. University of California Press, 1972. 267-8. Print. He was a pioneer in a number of areas of animation and filmmaking, including hand-drawn animation, drawn-on-film animation, visual music, abstract film, pixilation and graphical sound. McLaren was also an artist and printmaker, and explored his interest in dance in his films. His awards included an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject in 1952 for '' Neighbours'', a Silver Bear for best short documentary at the 1956 Berlin International Film Festival for ''Rythmetic'' and a 1969 BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film for '' Pas de deux''. Early life Norman McLaren was born in Stirling, Scotland, on 11 April 1914. He had two older siblings, one brother ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Norrish
The Associated Screen News of Canada (ASN) was incorporated in 1920 by the Canadian Pacific Railway in Montreal. Ben Norrish, who formerly worked for the Canadian Government Motion Picture Bureau, was appointed its director. In the period from 1921 to 1958 ASN, the largest private film production company in Canada of the first half of the 20th century, produced the majority of newsreels, shorts and industrial films in Canada. In addition to commissioned films, ASN produced films for theatrical release, out of which came the celebrated ''Canadian Cameo'' series (from 1932 to 1954). This series of 85 theatrical short films was totally the creation of Gordon Sparling. It represented Canada's only creative film effort in the 1930s. Each film was approximately 10 minutes in length and covered a range of subject matter, ranging from sport, to historical compilations about Canada, and Canadians, to portraits and aspects of Canadian life and activities.{{cite book, last1=Wise, first1=Wyndh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Who Will Teach Your Child?
''Who Will Teach Your Child?'' is a 1948 Canadian short documentary, directed by Stanley Jackson for the National Film Board of Canada."Documentary Film On Pupils And Teachers". ''Ottawa Citizen'', December 8, 1948. The film is about the importance of elementary and high school teachers in the development of children, mixing commentary with dramatic enactments of various potential classroom incidents acted by real Ottawa-area students and teachers. It is an analysis of the teacher’s vital role in a child’s development and asks three important questions: how can the teaching profession attract people of superior ability, to the teaching profession; how should these people be trained, and how can they be persuaded to stay in the teaching profession, as opposed to moving on to more lucrative careers. ''Who Will Teach Your Child?'' won the Canadian Film Award for Best Theatrical Short Film at the 1st Canadian Film Awards in 1949. The film was also named by ''Scholastic Teache ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ottawa
Ottawa (, ; Canadian French: ) is the capital city of Canada. It is located at the confluence of the Ottawa River and the Rideau River in the southern portion of the province of Ontario. Ottawa borders Gatineau, Quebec, and forms the core of the Ottawa–Gatineau census metropolitan area (CMA) and the National Capital Region (NCR). Ottawa had a city population of 1,017,449 and a metropolitan population of 1,488,307, making it the fourth-largest city and fourth-largest metropolitan area in Canada. Ottawa is the political centre of Canada and headquarters to the federal government. The city houses numerous foreign embassies, key buildings, organizations, and institutions of Canada's government, including the Parliament of Canada, the Supreme Court, the residence of Canada's viceroy, and Office of the Prime Minister. Founded in 1826 as Bytown, and incorporated as Ottawa in 1855, its original boundaries were expanded through numerous annexations and were ultimately ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Loon's Necklace
''The Loon's Necklace'' is a Canadian film, directed by F. R. Crawley and released in 1948. The film recounts the Tsimshian legend of how the loon received the distinctive band of white markings on its neck, by granting the gift of restored sight to a blind Tsimshian medicine man and being given a traditional Tsimshian necklace in return. The film is based on a folk tale known all across Alaska, Northern Canada, and Greenland, The Blind Man and the Loon. The variant of the tale used by Crawley was recorded during the early 1930s in British Columbia by Douglas Leechman of the National Museum of Canada. The film is narrated by George Gorman, and performed by actors in traditional West Coast First Nations masks in front of a backdrop of brightly coloured oil paintings."Treasures from 'Canada's King of Film': F.R. Crawley gave the country its first feature film Oscar and changed driver's ed films". ''Toronto Star'', February 27, 2016. The film has sometimes been erroneously credited ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stoddart Publishing
Stoddart Publishing was a Canadian book publisher and distributor, owned by Jack Stoddart, which ceased operations in 2002.UncreditedBook giant Stoddart files for creditor protection CBC News, May 1, 2002. Retrieved 2016-01-15. History General Publishing purchased Musson in 1967 from Hodder & Stoughton. Stoddart Publishing took over the Canadian publishing line of Musson in 1984. In 1995, Stoddart published a book by photographer Jock Carroll, '' Glenn Gould: Some Portraits of the Artist as a Young Man'', being a collection of photographs of the late Canadian pianist, accompanied by captions written by Carroll. The photographs and narrative were based on an interview with and photos taken by Carroll of Glenn Gould in 1956, at the initiative of Gould's agent. Gould had died in 1982. Gould's estate and his personal corporation sued Stoddart and Carroll for misappropriation of personality without consent or compensation. The actions were unsuccessful, based on Gould's unrestri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
