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John Spotton
John Spotton C.S.C. (January 1, 1927 - March 3, 1991) was a Canadian filmmaker with the National Film Board of Canada. A versatile artist who worked as a director, producer, cinematographer and editor, Spotton was best known for his role in developing the Direct Cinema genre of documentary and in the application of those techniques in narrative fiction films, in particular ''Nobody Waved Good-bye'' (1964), in which he served as cinematographer and editor. An early member of the Canadian Society of Cinematographers (CSC), Spotton briefly working as a cameraman for a private company, joined the NFB in 1949 and worked there for the rest of his life, with the exception of a three-film stint with Parker Film Associates, and a two-year period in the 1970s when he worked with Potterton Productions. He was executive director of the NFB's Ontario Centre from 1982 until 1988. Until it closed in 2002, The NFB's theatre in Toronto was named The John Spotton Theatre. Until 2017, the Tor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toronto
Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, most populous city in Canada and the List of North American cities by population, fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the anchor of the Golden Horseshoe, an urban agglomeration of 9,765,188 people (as of 2021) surrounding the western end of Lake Ontario, while the Greater Toronto Area proper had a 2021 population of 6,712,341. Toronto is an international centre of business, finance, arts, sports and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multiculturalism, multicultural and cosmopolitanism, cosmopolitan cities in the world. Indigenous peoples in Canada, Indigenous peoples have travelled through and inhabited the Toronto area, located on a broad sloping plateau interspersed with Toronto ravine system, rivers, deep ravines, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Devlin (director)
Bernard Devlin (1923–1983) was a Canadian film director, producer and writer who played an important role in the development of French-language film production at the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). Biography Devlin was born and raised in Quebec City. After attending Loyola College, he joined the Royal Canadian Navy and saw action in the Atlantic, the Mediterranean and North Africa. After the war, he moved to Ottawa and joined the NFB. He was one of the few French-Canadians there; he joined Vincent Paquette and Jean Palardy and, after the war, the NFB hired Roger Blais and Raymond Garceau, among others. This group made French films, but it also continued to make English films, and dub them for Quebec. In 1951, the NFB created a studio for the creation of French-language films. Devlin wasn't given a title, but he was put in charge of the unit and spent the next two years producing films about French-Canadian culture. While he was reportedly an anti-nationalist, he did a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Dufaux
Georges Dufaux (; March 17, 1927 in Lille, France – November 8, 2008 in Switzerland) was a Canadian documentary film director and cinematographer. Biography After graduating in 1953 from the École nationale de photographie et de cinématographie on the rue de Vaugirard, in Paris, Dufaux worked at a film laboratory in Brazil for three years. He came to Canada in 1956 and joined the NFB as an assistant cameraman, first working on the series ''Candid Eye''. Dufaux eventually progressed to cinematographer and was responsible for the photography of many important Canadian films such as ''Les Brûlés'' (1959), ''Astataïon ou Le festin des morts'' (1965), ''YUL 871'' (1966), ''Isabel'' (1968), ''Fortune and Men's Eyes'' (1971), '' Taureau'' (1973), ''Les beaux souvenirs'' (1981), and ''An Imaginary Tale (Une histoire inventée)'' (1990). He was also the cinematographer on several of Léa Pool's films. Dufaux also worked as director on several short films throughout the 1960s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Howe (filmmaker)
John Howe (August 30, 1926 – August 18, 2008) was a Canadian director, producer, and composer with the National Film Board of Canada. He is best known for his films ''Do Not Fold, Staple, Spindle or Mutilate'' and ''Why Rock the Boat?'', and for his handling of the NFB’s 1969 Austerity Crisis. Early life John Thomas Howe was born in Toronto, the son of Thomas and Margret Ogilvy (Manzie) Howe. At age 18, he joined the Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery, saw action in Europe, and in 1946, left the service with the rank of Captain. Upon his return to Canada, he went to the University of Toronto, graduating in 1950. Career While in university, Howe worked as a director's assistant at the Canadian Repertory Theatre, and as a freelance reporter for the CBC. He also appeared in two episodes of two CBC television series: ''Space Command'' and ''Encounter''. In 1955, he was hired by the National Film Board of Canada where he stayed for 28 years, directing, producing, and/or writin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Low (filmmaker)
Colin Archibald Low (July 24, 1926 – February 24, 2016) was a Canadian animation and documentary filmmaker with the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). Colin Low born in Cardston, Alberta, Low attended the Banff School of Fine Arts and the Calgary Institute of Technology, now known as the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology. His NFB career in Montreal spanned over six decades, on more than 200 productions, most often as director, producer, or executive producer. He died on February 24, 2016 in Montreal, Quebec. Early work Low's 1952 animated short, ''The Romance of Transportation in Canada'', won a Short Film Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, a special BAFTA Award and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Cartoons. His 1954 documentary '' Corral'' received was named best documentary at the Venice Film Festival. He followed that with a second documentary shot in southern Alberta, the 1960 film '' Circle of the Sun'', which marked ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon Sparling
Gordon Sparling (1900-1994) was a pioneering Canadian film maker. He was educated at Trinity College in the University of Toronto. He directed such early Canadian films as '' The Tidy House (La maison en ordre)'' in 1936 and ''The Kinsmen'' in 1938. Along with such films, Sparling directed film shorts as ''Pleasure Island (''1936) that promoted Canada's largest and most luxurious summer resort, Bigwin Inn, on Bigwin Island, Ontario. Gordon Sparling's start with the Ontario Motion Picture Bureau in 1924, led to a 40-year career with the Canadian Government Motion Picture Bureau and Associated Screen News of Canada (ASN). He worked as an assistant director on Carry on, Sergeant! in 1928 and during the 1930s was virtually the only creative filmmaker in the Canadian commercial film industry.Morris, Peter (2015Gordon Sparling''The Canadian Encyclopedia'' Historica Canada He launched the Canadian Cameo series of theatrical shorts at ASN in 1932 and continued to direct and produc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morten Parker
Morten Parker (July 29, 1919 – May 26, 2014) was a Canadian director, producer and writer. Biography Parker was born and raised in a Jewish family in Winnipeg, Manitoba, attended the University of Winnipeg and began his career as a journalist. In 1942, his girlfriend, filmmaker Gudrun Bjerring, was hired by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). The two moved to Ottawa and, in 1947, Parker was also hired by the NFB. They married in 1944 (after which Bjerring became known as the filmmaker Gudrun Parker). They made several films together, notably ''The Stratford Adventure'' (1954), which was nominated for an Oscar. Parker directed, produced and/or wrote 35 films for the NFB. His interest lay in social and labour justice, and he was responsible for films in the NFB's ''Labour in Canada'' series (1953–54) and 1958's ''The Nature of Work'' series. He also directed ''The Fight: Science Against Cancer'', which was nominated for an Oscar in 1951. Also in 1951, an independent film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolf Koenig
Wolf Koenig (October 17, 1927 – June 26, 2014) was a Canadian film director, producer, animator, cinematographer, and a pioneer in Direct Cinema at the National Film Board of Canada. Early life Born in Dresden, Germany, Koenig emigrated to Canada with his family in 1937, when they fled Nazi Germany. They settled in farm along the Grand River, outside what is now known as Cambridge, Ontario. In 1948, a local representative for the Canadian department of agriculture needed the family's tractor to demonstrate a new tree-planting machine. As the young Koenig pulled the machine across a field, he noticed a small film crew from the NFB's former agricultural film unit, recording the demonstration. After filming was complete, he approached the men, who included director Raymond Garceau, and told them he loved films, especially animation, and hoped to work in filmmaking. They suggested he send in a job application and approximately six weeks later he received a letter offering him the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Kroitor
Roman Kroitor (December 12, 1926 – September 17, 2012) was a Canadian filmmaker who was known as an early practitioner of ''cinéma vérité'', as co-founder of IMAX, and as creator of the Sandde hand-drawn stereoscopic animation system. He was also the original inspiration for the Force, popularized in the ''Star Wars'' series. He studied philosophy and psychology at the University of Manitoba and then worked for the National Film Board of Canada, first as a production assistant and then as a film editor. He directed his first film, ''Rescue Party'' in 1949. He wrote the NFB animated short ''It's A Crime'' (1957), produced '' Propaganda Message'' (1974), and produced and directed '' In the Labyrinth'', released as a theatrical film in 1979. On September 17, 2012, he died of a heart attack at the age of 85 in his sleep. Early influence of the cinéma vérité style Between 1958 and 1961 Kroitor co-directed, with Wolf Koenig, the ''Candid Eye'' direct cinema documentary se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terence Macartney-Filgate
Terence Macartney-Filgate (6 August 1924 – 11 July 2022) was a British-Canadian film director who directed, wrote, produced or shot more than 100 films in a career spanning more than 50 years. Early life Born in England, Macartney-Filgate lived in India until the age of nine. His family returned to England in 1933 and three years later he became an admirer of documentaries after seeing the 1936 film '' Night Mail'', which was narrated by John Grierson (the founder of the NFB) and based on a poem by W.H. Auden. Macartney-Filgate was only 15 years old at the outbreak of World War II and ultimately joined the Royal Air Force as a flight engineer, flying more than a dozen operations in Europe. He then went on to obtain a degree in politics, philosophy and economics from Oxford University, in 1946, and held down a succession of jobs before immigrating to Canada. National Film Board Macartney-Filgate, who had long admired the work of the National Film Board of Canada, applied re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Candid Eye
''Candid Eye'' is a Canadian documentary television series which aired on CBC Television in 1958. Production Wolf Koenig, Terence Macartney-Filgate, and Stanley Jackson filmed ''The Days Before Christmas'' in December 1957, and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and National Film Board requested six more episodes after seeing it. ''The Day Before Christmas'' was later given a release in December 1958, while ''Blood and Fire'' aired as the show's first episode on 26 October 1958. Tom Daly served as the executive producer. Multiple names were suggested for the show, including ''The Roving Eye'', but ''Candid Eye'' was selected despite fears that it would be confused with ''Candid Camera''. The show was successful and seven additional episodes were requested although they would air under the name ''Documentary '60'' after the CBC asked the NFB to rebrand ''Candid Eye'', ''Frontiers'', and ''The World in Action'' into one show. ''Candid Eye'', influenced by the work of Henri Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Jodoin
René Jodoin (30 December 1920 – 22 January 2015) was an animation director and producer who founded the French-language animation studio of the National Film Board of Canada. Born in Hull, Quebec on December 30, 1920, Jodoin died in Montreal on January 22, 2015 at the age of 94. Joining the NFB Jodoin was invited by animation pioneer Norman McLaren to join the NFB in 1943. He worked in the NFB's original animation unit, then left the NFB in 1947. He returned to the Film Board in 1954, working in a variety of capacities, including as head of an NFB animation program producing films for the Department of National Defence and as head of NFB's Science Film Program. French animation studio founder In 1966, he founded the French Animation Studio. He produced two Academy Award-nominated animated shorts during his tenure: ''Hunger'', by Peter Foldes and ''Monsieur Pointu'', by André Leduc and Bernard Longpré, as well as '' Balablok'' by Břetislav Pojar, winner of the Grand Prix ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
