Canadian Film Weekly Year Book of the Canadian Motion Picture Industry (1952)

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Record Details:

Title:
Canadian Film Weekly Year Book of the Canadian Motion Picture Industry
Date:
1952
Volume:
Canadian Film Weekly 1952-53 Year Book of the Canadian Motion Picture Industry
Leaf #:
00044
Language:
English
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System, Year Book, Canada, and Global Cinema
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library, Canadian Media Magazines Project, Paul Moore and Jessica Whitehead
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:

Canadian Film Weekly Year Book of the Canadian Motion Picture Industry

Editor: Hye Bossin (1951-64)

Renamed Canadian Film & TV Bi-Weekly Year Book of the Canadian Entertainment Industry (1965-70, editor: Stan Helleur)

Hye Bossin was central in the 1950s to the creation of the Canadian Film Archive, the Canadian Film Awards, and he wrote some of the first histories of early cinema in Canada, published in the first volumes of the annual Canadian Film Weekly Year Book (1951-1970), an annual directory appendix to Bossin’s editorship at Canadian Film Weekly (1942-1970), owned by Nat Taylor’s Film Publications of Canada, Ltd. Early volumes included several significant historical essays under his byline, remarkably comprehensive and still cited today. Later volumes provided an annual spotlight of the Canadian Picture Pioneers of the Year. In the late 1960s, after Bossin’s death, the magazine was renamed Canadian Film & TV Bi-Weekly, scaling back the pace of publishing but added a purview for television and broadcasting. The annual was renamed similarly, its subtitle amended to “Year Book of the Canadian Entertainment Industry.” When the Film Weekly was relaunched as Canadian Film Digest (1971-76), the publication continued to include an annual, Canadian Film Digest Yearbook (1971-86), which was subsequently renamed Film Canada Yearbook (1986-2007).

– Paul Moore, March 2024

Further Reading

  • Bossin, Hye. “Canada and the Film: The Story of the Canadian Motion Picture Industry.” In Canadian Film Weekly Year Book of the Canadian Motion Picture Industry, 21-41. Toronto: Film Publications of Canada, 1951.
  • ———. “At the Very Beginning, The Holland Brothers of Ottawa Ushered in the World Motion Picture Industry.” In Canadian Film Weekly Year Book of the Canadian Motion Picture Industry, 45-49. Toronto: Film Publications of Canada, 1952.
  • ———. “The Story of L. Ernest Ouimet, Pioneer.” In Canadian Film Weekly Year Book of the Canadian Motion Picture Industry, 23-43. Toronto: Film Publications of Canada, 1952.

Date Added:
February 24, 2025
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even to the point of having an onion peeled by alien and unappreciative hands. The results were magnificent and Laurie and Daley would stagger from the table to collapse in happy heaps ecstatically murmuring praise of Ernest. Even now when they talk about those happy days they are in danger of drowning in their own drool. Ernest’s fine sense of humor is most often directed at himself. One of his favorite tales is about the time a Montreal girl came to him for advice about a screen career. She had had a walk-on part in a previous film. Ouimet considered that she would not photograph well and tried to talk her into dropping the idea and making marriage the most important thing in her life. What he didn’t know was that a certain optical handicap of hers, noted by him, didn’t show on the screen and she had a rare beauty when filmed. The next day a scout saw her walk-on part and searched for her. Her name is Norma Shearer. He still has definite personal opinions about things. Central operation of a complete nature is making robots of managers, he says. And it is his opinion that the decline of the legitimate stage is due much to the lack of patience of the last generation, which couldn’t sit through several hours of live entertainment. He doesn’t like masters of ceremonies because they ask applause for actors before they deserve it. “They should deliver the goods first,” says Ouimet. History inevitably becomes personalized in its presentation. Great accomplishments are usually identified with one man. In the case of Canadian motion picture history, that one man is Leo Ernest Ouimet, whose faith in the future of films did much to establish and bring them to the envied position they occupy in Canadian life today. THE END THEATRE HOLDING CORPORATION LIMITED A GREAT TRADITION OF MOTION PICTURE ENTERTAINMERT Since 1906 AND STILL GOING STRONG The Allens and Louis Rosenteld