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Canadian Film Weekly Year Book of the Canadian Motion Picture Industry (1953)

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Record Details:

Title:
Canadian Film Weekly Year Book of the Canadian Motion Picture Industry
Date:
1953
Volume:
Canadian Film Weekly 1953-54 Year Book of the Canadian Motion Picture Industry
Leaf #:
000130
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:
April 11, 2024
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Arthur MacNomara, specicl adviser to the Department of National Defence, Ottawa; Charles S. Band, Toronto; Dr. Leon Lortie, University of Montreal. SENIOR OFFICERS Government Film Commissioner Dr. A. W. Trueman Director of Administration E. S. Coristine Director of Distribution ... we L. W. Chatwin Director of Production ............ Donald Mulholland Director of Technical Operations .... Gerald Graham Assistant to the Film Commissioner and Secretary to the Board .........00..., lan MacNeill Other Officers: ADMINISTRATION Chief, Accounting Division ................ C.A. Miller Chief General Services Personnel Manager ..... Info. Officer—French .. Eniglist)) ccsscencetscsece DISTRIBUTION Administrative Officer ........-....00. J. W. Cosman Acting Chief, Commercial Distribution W. S. Jobbins Cc. W. Marshall . D.B.E. Greenway . Miss Beth Bertram Pierre Chaloult T. W. Van Dusen Chief, Canadian Program Assistants Chie fieavericessevt-savidscsece Chief, International Distribution and Travel Program .......... . C. J. Lochnan Head, Info. & Promotion Div. .... Stanley Helleur Promotion Off |Cetiacruceresmstrcusbaseestevasenre Ralph Ellis Info. Screenings Officer .......6..000. Miss S. Barriere Chief, Research & Reports Div. ........ A. K. Dixon PRODUCTION Production Manager Desmond Dew Music Consultant Lou Applebaurn Exec. Producer (Theatr. & Newsreel programs) Nicholas Balla Tom Daly Uusisduann ceneuensiiee Guy Glover Michael Spencer . Jack Hughes Jack Olsen Executive Producer ..........ccccccessseersecerereese Executive Producer ..... Executive Producer .. Executive Producer (Stills) Executive Producer (Filmstrips) TECHNICAL OPERATIONS Superintendents, Motion Pic. Lab. ........ Ray Payne Chief, Camera Division .. Denis Gillson Chief, Sound Recording Divisio . Roger Beaudry Chief, Engineering Service Ambrose Vachon Supervisor, Stills Lab. zai L. D. White REGIONAL OFFICES CHARLOTTETOWN, PEI H. B. Chandler, Regional Agent, Prince of Wales College. HALIFAX, NS W. D. Smith, Regional Representative, NFB, 30 Blowers St. FREDERICTON, NB R. J. Hickey, Regional Agent, Teacher's College. Gordon McLean, Senior NFB Representative, New Federal Building, P.O. Box 746 ST. JOHN‘S, NFLD. B. F. Drew, Regionald Represencative, NFB. Centre Building, Church Hill, P.O. Box 2113 MONTREAL Patrice T. Boudreau, Regionol Supervisor, |. Bonnier, Ass’t Regional Supervisor, 1423 Atwater Ave. TORONTO Vaughan Deacon, Regional Supervisor, Joel Samuels, Ass’t Regional Supervisor, 70 Yorkville Ave. WINNIPEG Glen Eyford, Ass‘t Regional Supervisor, 205 Childs Bldg. REGINA R, £. Johnson, Asst. Regional Supervisor, Education Annex, Parliament Bldgs. EDMONTON C. W. Gray, Regional Supervisor, South Side Post Office Bldg. VANCOUVER J. D. Patterson, Regional 535 West Georgia St. FOREIGN OFFICES Supervisor, NEW YORK . T. L. Johnston, 1270 Avenue of the Americas, New York 20, NY. CHICAGO John Duerkop, Daily News Building, 400 West Madison St., Chicago 6, Ill. LONDON J. A. Beveridge, Pierre Juneau, Colquhoun House, Broadwick St., London, WI, England. Canadian Feature Films (Information about films released between 1945-1952 will be found in the previous edition of the Year Book of the Canadian Motion Picture Industry.) 1953 — The Butler's Night Off Produced by Gama Productions Inc., Montreal. (No information available.) Coeur de Maman (In French) ‘Produced by Frontier Productions Ltd. Pro 129 ducer, Richard Jarvis; director, Rene Delacroix; screenplay, Rene Delacroix, from a play by Henri Deyglun; director of photography, Drummond Drury; camera, Jose Mena; editor, Anton Van de Water; sound, Mare Audet; score, Germaine Janelle. Running time 115 mins. Release and distribution: France Film. Premiere at St. Denis Theatre, Montreal, September 1953. CAST Marie Paradis ... Jeanne Demons Celeste ... Rosanna Seaborn SUZY-es.06 .. Denyse St-Pierre Jacques Jean-Paul Dugas