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7 unusual facts about National Film Board of Canada


All Together

All Together (cartoon) (1942), a cartoon promoting war bonds, co-produced by National Film Board of Canada and Walt Disney Productions

Cinema of Quebec

The National Film Board of Canada was established by the Parliament of Canada in 1939.

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

Film and Video Arts Society

Early years of meager supplies and limited resources helped to nurture a communal sense of sharing and a pooling of equipment that extended even to the National Film Board of Canada who shared office space and an infamous "late-night key" (that provided access to a bounty of top-line equipment) with FAVA in the Ortona Armoury.

Laura Boulton

The Smithsonian Institution Film Archives contains the originals of her film footage from 1934–1979, including collaborative films with the National Film Board of Canada.

Marcos Magalhães

He has been responsible for the first professional course in animation in Brazil, held in collaboration with the National Film Board of Canada from 1985 to 1987.

Precious McKenzie

McKenzie was one of nine athletes featured in the 1979 National Film Board of Canada documentary on the Edmonton Commonwealth Games, Going the Distance.


Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada

J.G. Wright, Superintendent of Eastern Arctic Patrol and National Film Board photographer, served on the 1945–1946 expedition sponsored by the Canadian National Institute for the Blind.

Barnegat Bay

It was adapted into the animated short The Family That Dwelt Apart, narrated by White, by the National Film Board of Canada.

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.

Cinema Politica

CP has partnerships with the following distributors: the National Film Board of Canada, Mongrel Media, Women Make Movies, les Films du 3 mars, Java Films, and others.

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.

Cree Hunters of Mistassini

Produced by the National Film Board of Canada Cree Hunters of Mistassini received the award for Best Documentary over 30 minutes at the Canadian Film Awards as well as the Robert Flaherty Award for best one-off documentary from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.

Crowfoot

Crowfoot was the subject of a ten-minute 1968 National Film Board of Canada documentary The Ballad of Crowfoot, directed by Willie Dunn.

Goddess Remembered

Goddess Remembered is the first film in the National Film Board of Canada's Women and Spirituality series, followed by The Burning Times.

Haisla Nation

Two National Film Board of Canada documentaries by Gil Cardinal record the Haisla's efforts to reclaim the Gyp'sgolox pole, and its eventual return.

Jnan Prakash Ghosh

He also provided music for the Academy Award nominated animated short Bead Game, directed by Ishu Patel for the National Film Board of Canada.

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.

Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen

In 2008 a Canadian documentary Nollywood Babylon co-directed by Ben Addelman and Samir Mallal, and produced by AM Pictures and the National Film Board of Canada in association with the Documentary Channel followed Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen while he was shooting his 157th film Bent Arrows.

Lauri Conger

1985 Soundtrack (with Michael Beinhorn), Dark Lullabies (Director: Irene Angelico and Abbey Neidik) (National Film Board of Canada)

Mahmoud Kaabour

Kaabour graduated with distinction from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema in Montreal, after which he pursued a documentary focus at the National Film Board of Canada and the newsroom at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Mon Pays

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

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.

Paddle to the Sea

Paddle to the Sea (French: Vogue-à-la-mer) is a 1966 National Film Board of Canada short live-action film directed, shot and edited by Bill Mason, based on the 1941 children's book Paddle-to-the-Sea by American author and illustrator Holling C. Holling.

Priceville, Ontario

The discovery and refurbishment of this cemetery is documented in the 2000 National Film Board of Canada film, Speakers for the Dead, co-directed by Jennifer Holness and David Sutherland (now Sudz Sutherland).

Royal Journey

Royal Journey is a National Film Board of Canada documentary film chronicling a five-week Royal visit by the then-Princess Elizabeth and her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, to Canada and the United States in the fall of 1951.

Saint-Laurent, Quebec

The Norman-McLaren district is named for Norman McLaren, a cinema pioneer at the National Film Board of Canada, whose headquarters are located in the borough district.

Souvenir of Canada

The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and US Comedy Arts Festival and was produced by Media Headquarters Film & Television and the National Film Board of Canada.

The Animation Show

The second Animation Show toured throughout 2005, featuring Bill Plympton's "Guard Dog", The National Film Board of Canada's classic "When the Day Breaks", Don Hertzfeldt's The Meaning of Life and new films by animators Peter Cornwell, Georges Schwizgebel and PES.

The Burning Times

The Burning Times is the second film in the National Film Board of Canada's Women and Spirituality series, following Goddess Remembered.

The Kid Who Couldn't Miss

Produced by the National Film Board of Canada, it combines fact and fiction to question fighter pilot Billy Bishop's accomplishments during World War I, featuring excerpts from John MacLachlan Gray's play Billy Bishop Goes to War.

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.

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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