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 #:
00047
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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Andrew M. and George Holland, who sold typewriters, phonographs, storage batteries and other such new-fangled contraptions. They were made the eastern agents of the Kinetoscope and as such staged the first exhibition. The Holland Bros. company, of which Andrew was apparently the senior partner and driving force, sold the first Kinetoscopes to reach England and France. In England Robert Paul duplicated them because Edison hadn’t bothered taking out a patent, while in France the Lumieres based their search for screen projection, in which they preceded Edison by about a year, on the Kinetoscope. Thus began the film history of both those countries, states Ramsaye. EDISON WROTE a letter to the Hol land Bros. in Ottawa thanking them: “I am pleased to hear that the first public exhibition of my Kinetoscope has been a success under your management, and hope your firm will continue to be associated with its further exploitation.” There is a story in connection with this letter. William Gladish, now of the Ottawa Citizen and perhaps Canada’s best known film trade paper correspondent, received a facsimile of the original years ago from one of the Hollands. This letter came into the hands of Col. John A. Cooper when he was head of the motion picture association through means not clearly traceable at the moment. The Colonel was under the impression it was an original. After his retirement some years ago his successor presented it to Dr. William Kaye Lamb for the Public Archives. This caused Lawrence Hisgrove of Ottawa to bring out a copy, apparently the last of quite a number which had been disposed of down the years. Dr. Lamb, the Dominion Archivist, made a comparison of Hisgrove’s copy and the one in the Archives and found both to be facsimiles. And so that raises the first question: Where is the original? The facts about the historic distinction of the two Ottawa men in staging the first act of the motion picture industry The First Type of Movie House After the smash opening of the first Kinetoscope Parlor by the Holland " Bros. of Ottawa, who gave the initial commercial exhibition of Edison’s peepbox moving pictures in New York, hundreds of places like this one dotted the world. Then 18 months later in France and England and six months after that in the USA came screen projection. This the Kinestoscope, Phonograph and Graphophone Arcade of Peter Bacigalupi in San Francisco.