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 #:
000202
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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Ont. Ass'n of Film Councils, Inc. FEDERATION CHAIRMEN EASTERN ONT. W. L. Graff, Peterborough. GEORGIAN BAY D. B. Astley, Midlond. GREY BRUCE H. Collins, Port Elgin. HAMILTON Maxwell Sauder, BA, Hamilton. NIAGARA G. C. Finlay, Chippewa. NORTHERN ONT. J. A. T. Simpson, Kirkland Lake. SOUTHWESTERN ONT. Miss Winnifred Reed, St. Thomas. THUNDER BAY A. M. Ross, Port Arthur TORONTO H. Gallinger, Toronto. WEST CENTRAL ONT. Edwin R. Crawford, Stratford. Canadian Film Institute 172 Wellington St., Ottawa, Ont. (Phone 3-6259) Honorary President .... His Excellency the Rt. Hon. Vincent Massey, CH, Governor General of Canada. GFFICERS President Sadeeemies Vice-President ret ys Second Vice-President James A. Cowan . A. L. Hepworth ee .... Eveline LeBlanc Honorary Treasurer ....... .. Lachlan F. McRae Honorary Secretary ..............:.... Romain DesBois Executive Director Gordon Adamson DIRECTORS D. W. Buchanan, Graeme Fraser, E. R. McEwen, Dr. J.» R. Kidd, Walter Herbert, Cowan, Hepworth, Miss LeBlanc, McRae, DesBois. e e e Film Societies AFFILIATED WITH THE CANADIAN FILM INSTITUTE 172 Wellington St., Ottawa, (Phone 3-6259) Ont. ALBERTA Calgary Film Society Edmonton Film Society BRITISH COLUMBIA Vancouver Film Society MANITOBA Campus Film Club, United College Students Association, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg YMHA, Winnipeg NEW BRUNSWICK Mount Allison Film Society, Sackville NOVA SCOTIA Halifax Film Society ONTARIO Art Gallery of Toronto 201 B’nai B'rith Hillel Foundation, Queen’s University, Kingston Brockville Film Society Cinema 16, Toronto Communications Research, Toronto Deep River Film Society London Film Society Ottawa*Film Society Ottawa Film Study Group Realist Film Society, Toronto Renfrew Film Society Summer Cinema, Toronto Toronto Film Society University of Toronto Film Society Windsor Film Society YM & YWHA, Toronto QUEBEC A.B.M. Cine-Club, Montreal Arvida Film Society Le Cine-Club Flaherty, Montreol Cine-Club of St. Jerome Cine-Club Lavo! University, Quebec Comission Etudiante du Cinema, Montreal Federation Canadiennes des Cine-Clubs, Ville St. Laurent McGill University Film Society, Montreal Men's Press Club Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Le Nouvelliste Cine-Etude, Three Rivers Quebec Film Society, Sillery Sir George Williams’ College Film Society, Montreal SASKATCHEWAN Regina Film Society University of Saskatchewan Film Study Society, Saskatoon Montreal DISTRIBUTORS Astral Films (16 MM. DIVISION) 130 Cariton St., Toronto, Ont. (KIngsdale 3163) DIRECTORS I. H. (Izzy) Allen, Jerry H. Herberman. General Films Ltd. 1534-13th Ave., Regina, Sask. (Phone 5611) Paramount Solway, Len Distributors of and Twentieth Century-Fox films. OFFICERS Bresi Gents. caricneteccsncscsnnmpsacesesaseeanca Vice-President .. Secretary-TreGsurer .....cccccessecceeeeeeeeeeeeeesees BRANCH OFFICES S. C. Atkinson . O. M. Paulson J. Game VANCOUVER W. H, Faulkes, Manager, 737 Hamilton St. EDMONTON Mrs. Edith McClelland, Manager, 10022-102nd St. WINNIPEG W. H. Riley, Manager, Confederation Life Bldg. TORONTO G. Tonkin, Manager, 16 Breadalbane St. MONTREAL D. M. Way, Manager, 263 Craig St. W.