Stanley Jackson
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Department: Directing
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Gender: Male
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Kainai
Overview: On the Kainai (Blood) First Nations Reserve, near Cardston, Alberta, a hopeful new development in Indigenous enterprise. Once rulers of the western plains, the Bloods live on a 1 300-square-kilometer reserve. Many have lacked gainful employment and now pin their hopes on a pre-fab factory they have built. Will the production line and work and wages fit into their cultural pattern of life? The film shows how it is working and what the owners themselves say about their venture.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Freshwater World
Overview: This documentary explores a variety of projects undertaken by scientists at Environment Canada's Freshwater Institute in Winnipeg to study the processes that pollute or disrupt clean and balanced freshwater environments.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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The Days of Whisky Gap
Overview: Rousing tales of the North-West Mounted Police are brought to life through photos and artists' sketches. In 1873, the North-West Mounted Police were established to maintain law and order in the North-West Territories. They undertook a trek from Fort Dufferin, south of Winnipeg, to Fort Whoop-up, near present-day Lethbridge, Alberta. The force raised the flag and proclaimed the Queen's Law, ensuring that the Canadian West would not become a lawless, American-style frontier.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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The Hutterites
Overview: A look at the Hutterites, an Anabaptist religious community similar to the Amish or the Mennonites in rural Alberta.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Circle of the Sun
Overview: A young man of the Kainai Nation (Blood tribe) shows us contemporary life of people as he attends a Sun Dance ceremony with the tribe.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-08-15
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The Peep Show
Overview: A cartoon film for young children about the adventures of a little chick from the time he falls from an egg basket and breaks out of his shell. Together with a duck who happens along, he goes to explore the world and discovers there is much to learn, even about his own farmyard.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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Death of a Legend
Overview: This documentary film is about wolves and the negative myths surrounding the animal. Exceptional footage portrays the wolf's life cycle and the social organization of the pack, as well as film of caribou, moose, deer and buffalo.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-10-05
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Helicopter Canada
Overview: A view from a helicopter of the ten Canadian provinces in 1966. The result is a big, beautiful and engrossing bird's-eye portrait of the country. Nothing here is quite the same as seen before, even Niagara Falls. Canadians will be thrilled by this panoramic view of familiar territory. Made for international distribution for the Canadian centennial.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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The Back-breaking Leaf
Overview: Here is a graphic picture of the tobacco harvest in southwestern Ontario. At the end of July, transient field workers move in for a brief bonanza when the plant is ripe. The tobacco harvesters call it "the back-breaking leaf."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-01-02
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My Financial Career
Overview: A neurotic man relates his unsuccessful attempt to open a simple savings account at a bank.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-10-01
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Paddle to the Sea
Overview: A boy's carved boat travels through the Canadian wilderness until it reaches the ocean.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-02-01
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The New Alchemists
Overview: This short documentary profiles a community engaged in developing sustainable living methods, including food production and small-scale solar and wind technology, on a farm in Massachusetts in the 1970s. Well before sustainability was a mainstream concern, these prescient innovators attempted to create a vision of a greener, kinder world. "Think small," say the New Alchemists. "Look what thinking big has done."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Of Whales, the Moon, and Men
Overview: At the instigation of the filmmakers, the young men of the Ile-aux-Coudres in the middle of the St-Lawrence River try as a memorial to their ancestors to revive the fishing of the belugas interrupted in 1924.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-08-04
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Jack Rabbit
Overview: This short film retraces the life of Herman Smith Johannsen – the man who introduced the sport of cross-country skiing to Canadians. From past to present, his life story is portrayed through pictures from sports newsreels, Norwegian archives and his family album. The film catches up with him at both the Canadian Ski Marathon, where he is the honoured guest, and on a return trip to his native Norway.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
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Glenn Gould: Off the Record
Overview: Canadian concert pianist Glenn Gould enjoys a respite at his lakeside cottage. It is an aspect of Gould previously known only to the collie pacing beside him through the woods, the fishermen resting their oars to hear his piano, and fellow musicians like Franz Kraemer, with whom Gould talks of composition. (First of two parts.)
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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Glenn Gould: On the Record
Overview: This short documentary (the second of two parts) follows Glenn Gould to New York City. There, we see the renowned Canadian concert pianist kidding the cab driver, bantering with sound engineers at Columbia Records, and then, alone with the piano, fastidiously recording Bach's Italian Concerto.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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