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 #:
000172
Language:
English
Collection:
Canada, Hollywood Studio System, Global Cinema, and Year Book
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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Non-Theatrical, Sponsored: Science at Your Service, National Film Board. Honorable Mention to Zero de Conduite, Crawley Films. Non-Theatrical, Other: Family Circles, National Film Board. Honorable Mention to Children’s Concert, National Film Board. Amateur: Mouvement Perpetual, Claude Jutras. Honorable Mention to In the Daytime, Stanley Fox-Peter Varley, 1950 WINNERS Special Awards: L. Ernest Ouimet of Montreal, in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the motion picture in Canada as a pioneer exhibitor, distributor, producer and cameraman. He produced the first Canadian newsreel, opened the first Canadian film exchange and created what is claimed to have been the first de luxe motion picture theatre; Sitzmarks the Spot, produced by Associated Screen News and distributed by Warner Bros., named for success in handling a comedy theme; Family Tree, National Film Board, for outstanding animation and musical score; The Fight—Science Against Cancer, National Film Board, for a splendid representation of a significant social problem. Theatrical: Apres le Bagne What?), National Film Board. Non-Thcatrical: Feelings of Depression, National Film Board. Honorable Mention to The Oyster Man, National Film Board. Amateur: Honorable mention to Frontiersman, Emanuel J. Heuer; Parking On This Side, University of Toronto Film Society. Recognition: Winston Barron and Canadian Paramount News for an unique contribution to public information in Canada by providing a Canadian editor and giving special treatment to all its Canadian subjects, Crawley Films for its series of films on child development, produced for the McGraw Hill Company. P Graphic Associates for their experimental puppet film, Buffoons. National Film Board for two excellent films pn forest conservation and use, Look to the Forest and Trees Are a Crop. Crawley Films for the film, Power of Pennies, an excellent example of a sponsored film. Associated Screen News for the general high level of the Theatrical Canadian Cameo Series. National Film Board for A Friend at the Door, a skilful interpretation of social services in British Columbia, National Film Board for an unique interpretation of Canadian history by using old prints and engravings in the film, Les Anciens Canadiens. (After Prison, 1951 WINNERS Film of the Year: Newfoundland Scene, Crawley Films Ltd. Special Awards: Around Is Around—Now Is the Time, produced by the National Film Board. Theatrica!—Feature:, Royal Journey, produced by National Film Board, Honorable Mention to La Petite Aurore, produced by Alliance Cinematoaraphique Canadienne Inc. Theatrical—Short: Opera School, produced by the National Film Board. Honorable Mention to Struggle for Oil, (NFB); The Fruitful Earth, produced by Associated Screen News; Man in the Peace Tower, (NFB). Non-Theatrical — Oven: Newfoundland Scene, Crawley Films Ltd. Honorable Mention to The Longhouse People and Les Moines de St.-Benoit du Lac, both produced by the National Film Board. Non-Theatrical — Non-Government Sponsor: Packaged Power, Crawley Films Ltd. Non-Theatrical — Government Sponsor: Milk 171 “son, Made, National Film Board. Honorable Mention tol Ski G Quebec, Abbe Maurice Proulx of Laval University for Province of Quebec. Amateur: A Camper and His Canoe, David Palter. Honorable Mention to Cours Primaire de Francais, The French Cine Club, University of Toronto, and The Story of a Georgian Coffee Pot, Victoria, BC, Amateur Movie Club, Canadian Film Weekly EXHIBITORS’ POLL (The annual Boxoffice Poll of films and players has been discontinued, as new methods of marketing make it impracticable. Many top films are now pre-released at raised prices and then brought back later for their regular engagements. They are exhibited in two calendar periods and the vote in each is not representative of the power of such films.) WINNERS IN PREVIOUS YEARS PICTURES: 1942—How Green Was My Valley (Fox); 1943—Yankee Doodle Dandy (Warners); 1944—Going My Way (Paramount); 1945—National Velvet (MGM); 1946—Bells of St. Mary’s (RKO); 1947—The Jolson Story (Columbia); 1948 —Sitting Pretty (Fox); 1949—The Stratton Story (MGM); 1950—Cheoper by the Dozen (Fox); 1951 —King Solomon’s Mines (MGM). STARS: 1942—Gary Cooper, 1943—Greer Gar son, 1944—Bing Crosby, 1945—Bing Crosby, 1946—Bing Crosby, 1947—Bing Crosby, 1948— Bing Crosby, 1949—Bing Crosby, 1950—Bing Crosby; 1951—Bing Crosby. Canadian Film Weekly CRITICS’ POLL (The following selections were made by newspaper, radio and magazine critics across Canada voting for the pictures and stars they considered best during the year.) PICTURES: 1. The African Queen (United Artists); 2. High Noon (United Artists); 3. The Quiet Man (Republic, Empire-Universal); 4. An American in Paris (MGM); 5. The Greatest Show On Earth (Paramount); 6. Limelight (United Artists); 7. The Man in the White Suit (J. Arthur Rank); 8. Death of a Salesman (Columbia); 9. With a Song in My Heart (Fox); 10. Quo Vadis (MGM). STARS: 1. Gary Cooper, 2. Katharine Hepburn, 3. Alec Guinness, 4. Humphrey Bogort, 5. Joan Crawford, 6. Charles Chaplin, 7. Susan Hayward, 8. Marlon Brando, 9. James Mason, 10. Gene Kelly. WINNERS IN PREVIOUS YEARS PICTURES: 1942—Mrs. Miniver (MGM); 1943—In Which We Serve (United Artists); 1944—Going My Way (Paramount); 1945—No poll; 1946—Lost Weekend (Paramount); 1947— The Best Years of Our Lives (RKO); 1948— Hamlet (J. Arthur Rank); 1949—The Red Shoes (J. Arthur Rank); 1950—AIIl About Eve (Fox); 1951—A Place in the Sun (Paramount). STARS: 1942—Greer Garson, 1943—Greer Gar1944—Barry Fitzgerald, 1945—No poll, 1946—Ingrid Bergman, 1947—James Mason, 1948—Sir Laurence Olivier, 1949—Olivia de Havilland, 1950—Bette Davis, 1951—vVivien Leigh. Yorkton Film Festival c/o Secretary, 67 First Ave., Yorkton, Sask. OFFICERS Chairman William Stearn