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unusual facts about NFB


Writers Guild of Canada

In addition to the IPA, the Guild also has agreements in place with the APFTQ, CBC Radio, CBC Television, CTV, the NFB and TVOntario.


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Bead Game

Jnan Prakash Ghosh provides music for the 5 min 35 second film, which was produced at the National Film Board of Canada (NFB).

Boogie-Doodle

Though released by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) in 1941, Boogie-Doodle was actually made by McLaren in New York City in 1940, a year before he was invited by John Grierson to Canada to found the NFB's animation unit.

Chris Landreth

His latest film is Subconscious Password, his third with the NFB, Seneca College and Copperheart Entertainment.

Cinema of Quebec

The French branch of the National Film Board of Canada was established and the NFB became autonomous in 1959.

Collage film

Working at the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) in the 1960s, Arthur Lipsett created collage films such as Very Nice, Very Nice (1961) and 21-87 (1963), entirely composed of found footage discarded during the editing of other films.

Crowfoot

One of the first NFB films directed by an aboriginal filmmaker, the film received several awards including a Gold Hugo for best short film at the 1969 Chicago International Film Festival.

Fields of Sacrifice

It would enjoy a two-year theatrical run, often shown as part of a double bill with the NFB's 70-minute drama Drylanders.

How Wings Are Attached to the Backs of Angels

Welch has stated that one of the original influences for the film was Arnold Böcklin's painting Isle of the Dead as well as Norman McLaren's 1946 NFB animated short A Little Phantasy on a 19th-century Painting, which incorporates the Böcklin work.

Joseph Idlout

He was posthumously the subject of the 1990 documentary film Between Two Worlds, directed by Barry Greenwald and produced by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and Investigative Productions Inc.

K-NFB Reader

The K-NFB Reader (an acronym for Kurzweil — National Federation of the Blind Reader) is a handheld electronic reading device for the blind.

Leslie McFarlane

As part of the NFB in Montreal, he wrote and directed documentaries and short dramas including the 1951 documentary Royal Journey, Here's Hockey, a 1953 documentary about ice hockey featuring Montreal Canadiens star Jean Beliveau.

Mon Pays

The song was written for the NFB film La Neige a fondu sur la Manicouagan, directed by Arthur Lamothe.

National Federation of the Blind

NFB has partnered with Kurzweil Educational Systems, a company founded by noted inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil, to develop a completely portable reading machine: the Kurzweil-National Federation of the Blind Reader.

Nicholas Johnson

In 1972 Canadian filmmaker Red Burns, who'd served on the National Film Board of Canada (NFB)'s Challenge for Change and George C. Stoney, who'd likewise served a guest role, worked with Johnson to make the FCC Public-access television cable TV requirements.

Night Mayor

Night Mayor was produced by the NFB in Winnipeg and received the Best Experimental Short award at the 2010 South by Southwest festival.

Nobody Waved Good-bye

However, an Irish distribution deal fell through when the NFB refused a demand from Irish censors to cut references to sex and pregnancy.

Norman McLaren

Studio A, the NFB's first animation studio, formally came into existence as of January 1943, with McLaren as its head.

The Kid Who Couldn't Miss

H. Clifford Chadderton, Chief Executive Officer of The War Amps, created the film The Billy Bishop Controversy to counter the bias he and other veterans perceived in the NFB film.

The Maple Leaf Forever

It is the opening theme of each episode of The King Chronicle, Donald Brittain's 1988 NFB/CBC miniseries about the long career of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King.

Tony Ianzelo

He joined the NFB in 1960 as a camera assistant and in 1966 made his first film, Antonio.

Yves Daoust

After an encounter with Maurice Blackburn, Daoust entered a training program in film music techniques at the National Film Board of Canada (NFB).


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