 | Gary Evans - Performing Arts - 1991 - 436 pages
...drafted the original Film Act in 1939, the intention was the same, 'to make and distribute films designed to help Canadians in all parts of Canada to understand...living and the problems of Canadians in other parts.' Irwin's words were more prosaic and expansive. He entrenched the notion of producing films for international... | |
 | Kenneth McRoberts - History - 1995 - 452 pages
...this everlasting, frustrating, humiliating question" (Jones 1981:388). 2 The Film Board's goal was to "help Canadians in all parts of Canada to understand...living and the problems of Canadians in other parts" of the country (Jones 1981:200). From the government's perspective (as Robert Fothergill's 1993 play,... | |
 | R.W. Sandwell - History - 1998 - 308 pages
...with the film being produced in Lantzville, education. Ostensibly, the purpose of each production was to 'help Canadians in all parts of Canada to understand...living and the problems of Canadians in other parts.' ln short: to mirror Canada to Canadians.4 But the reflections were not always the realities that Canadian... | |
 | Wyndham Wise - Performing Arts - 2001 - 292 pages
...the National Film Act of 1939, the purpose of the NFB was 'to make and distribute films designated to help Canadians in all parts of Canada to understand...living and the problems of Canadians in other parts.' The Board was set up by Mackenzie King's Liberal government in the last months before the start of... | |
 | William Beard, Jerry White - Drama - 2002 - 516 pages
...The Film Board was "to see Canada and see it whole." Its original mandate, which Grierson wrote, was "to help Canadians in all parts of Canada to understand...living and the problems of Canadians in other parts." This image-making would be primarily in documentary, even if drama and animation would have a place... | |
 | Brian J. Low - History - 2002 - 295 pages
...Press, 1991), pp. 179-89, 295-98. 7 From 1939 to 1950, the mandate of the NFB read somewhat differently: "to help Canadians in all parts of Canada to understand...living and the problems of Canadians in other parts." 8 The first known reference to the phrase is in Ellen Key's The Century of the Child (New York: Knickerbocker... | |
 | Randolph Lewis - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 289 pages
...an influential Scotsman named John Grierson, whose charge was to "make and distribute films designed to help Canadians in all parts of Canada to understand...living and the problems of Canadians in other parts." 56 The reality of the institution had never matched its high-minded rhetoric, especially when it came... | |
 | Garry Sherbert, Sheila Petty, Annie Gérin - Political Science - 2006 - 541 pages
...Film Board (NFB), calls for a focus on regionality, so that Canadians "in all parts of Canada" can "understand the ways of living and the problems of Canadians in other parts."39 Substitute "nation" for "parts of Canada" and it becomes clear that Canadian film policy... | |
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Act to Create a National Film Board* of 1939 had directed the Film Board to concern itself with 'films designed to help Canadians in all parts of Canada to understand the ways of living and the problems of Canadians in other parts. 