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F I L M S ACROSS C A IT 1 D A
Ths first vvinter of the now World l/ar sees Canacla eiiibarking on an arabitious prograrnme of film prcdTiction and distribution designed to present a oomprelxensive picture both of lier immediate vvar activities and of her longer range social and econonic purposes.
The nevv film plans are being dravai up hy John G-rierson at ths rec.uest of the lion. V/. D. Euler, Dominion Minister of Trade and Commerce and Ghairmian of the National Film Losrd, the body recently set up by jlct of Parliament to coordin&te all G-overnment film activities. G-rierscn, temporarily acting as Govermr.ent Filmi Commissioner, is tne executive head of the jjoard.
The picture of Canada to be given by the National Film Board has already awakened \;ide interest on account of its careful planning. .'The British iJorth American Act of 1867 left Canadian education in the hands of tne Provinces. 'I2:us the Federal G-cvcrnFicnt , in taking up the miodern m.edia of puolic education, is free from the v.eighty academ.ic tradition native to the central eduC'^ •ion authorities of som^e other countries, notably Great Britain. j. ^ is free to plan intensive film, programiiaes in any fields of public 'vvelfare healtn, domestic progress, national unity it mjay consider necessary. It is free to attune its films to the m^any different levels of discourse dem<anded by the structure of Canadian society. From tiie start of the first film, prograrmne, therefore, production and distribution plans are being closely linked. Ho film, is being scheduled for production before its distribution nnods and potentialities have been studied. Canada, from the outset, is 'tailor-miaking' her film.s specially for the audiences they are addressed to. And in this way the lack of facilities for central, directive planning v.hich m.ade itself felt in British documentary production ?,ill be avoided from, the start.'
In tneir attitude to the v^ar 'Canadians are firmly accepting the wisely balanced views for which Mr. Mackenzie King is well known, an attitude that is being followed by the ilational Film Board in its work as the film wing of the Puolic Informs t ion service. "There are two sides to propaganda and two sides to the film at war", Grierson has said in an official broadcast. "17e shall go on mobilising the film to give the news and the story of a great historical event. In that sense we shall use it for all its worth to secure the present. But v/e snail also use the film mrrre and miore to secure the future and serve the still vvider needs of the people of Canada".
Canada is mobilising the film for war both in the theatres and in the adult education field. The March of Time, at the invitation of the Ifetional Filra Board, is in active production on, a film for world release depicting the economic and financial contribution of the country as well as the part to be played by its fighting forces.' Special facilities never before extended have been granted by the Government for the shooting of the film, and March