Canadian Film Weekly Year Book of the Canadian Motion Picture Industry (1957)

Page scan 000162 from Canadian Film Weekly Year Book of the Canadian Motion Picture Industry

Record Details:

Title:
Canadian Film Weekly Year Book of the Canadian Motion Picture Industry
Date:
1957
Volume:
Canadian Film Weekly 1957-58 Year Book of the Canadian Motion Picture Industry
Leaf #:
000162
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Film Industry Yearbook",Canad
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:
April 11, 2024
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on yy 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 Made, National Film Board. Honorable Mention to Ski @ 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. 1952 WINNERS Film of the Year: Tit-Coq, Les Productions Gratien Gelinas. Theatrical Feature: Tit-Coq, Les Productions Gratien Gelinas. Theatrical Short: L’Homme Aux Oiseaux, Natonal Film Board, Honorable Mentions to Les Iles de la Madeleine, National Film Board; Canine Crimebusters, Associated Screen News; and Citizen Varek, National Film Board. Non-Theatrical—Open: Angotee, National Film Board. Honorable Mentions to The Son, National Film Board; Romance of Transportation, National Film Board; The Power Within, Crawley Films Ltd.; Hot Hickory, Ashley & Crippen Ltd.; and Magic of the Tropics, Dr, S. Copeland. Non-Theatrical—Non-Government Sponsor: |mmediate Action, Crawley Films Ltd. Honorable Mentions to Calgary Stampede, Davart Productions, and Rogerstone, Crawley Films Ltd. Non-Theatrical—Government Sponsor: Shyness, National Film Board. Honorable Mentions to Western Wheat, National Film Board, and Operation Budworm, Omega Productions, 1953 WINNERS Film of the Year: The Seasons, Christopher Chapman. Special Award: Gordon Sparling of Montreal, in recognition of “his distinguisted service to the art of the film in Canada and to the Canadian Film Industry.” Theatrical Feature: No award was made in this category by the judges. Non-Theatrica!—Open: The Seasons, Christopher Chapman. Honorable Mention to Embryonic Development of the Chick, National Film Board. Non-Theatrical — Non Government Sponsor: Episode in Valleydale, Crawley Films. Honorable Mentions to The Ring-Necked Pheasant, Wildlife Productions for the Carling Conservation Club, and Polysar, Crawley Films for Polymer Corp. Ltd. Non-Theatrical — Government Sponsor: World at Your Feet, National Film Board. Honorable Mention to Everybody's Handicapped, Graphic Associates for the Department of Labour. Amateur: Ejiaht-Fifteen, Toronto Film Society. Special Mentions to A-Hunting We Will Go, Edmonton Movie and Photo Club, and to E. F. Attridge of Toronto. Theatrical Short: Farewell Oak Street, National Film Board. Honorable Mention to L‘Abatis, Notional Film Board, and Danish Seining, Atlantic Films & Electronics Ltd. 1954 WINNERS Film of the Year: The Stratford Adventure, National Film Board. Special Award: Hye Bossin, in recognition of his valuable contributions over the years in the field of motion pictures in Canada, and particularly his promotion of Canadian Film Archives. 161 Theatrical—Feature: The Stratford Adventure, National Film Board. Theatrical—Short: No award was made in this category by the judges. Honorable Mention to The Homeless Ones, National Film Board, Non-Theatrical—Open: Riches of the Earth, National Film Board. Honorable Mention to One Little Indian, National Film Board. Non Theatrical—Non Government Sponsor: Where None Shall Thirst, Committee on Missionary Education of the United Church of Canada. Honorable Mention to It’s in the Cards, Crawley Films. Non-Theatrical—Government Sponsor: Gift of the Glaciers, Film & Photographic Branch of the Government of the Province of Alberta. Amateur: No award was made in this category by the judges, 1955 WINNERS Film of the Year: No award was made in this category by the judges. Theatrical Feature: No award wos made in this category by the judges. Theatrical Short: Gold, National Film Board. Honorable Mention to The Shepherd, National Film Board. Non-Theatrical—Open: Color of Life, National Film Board. Honorable Mention to Les Aboiteaux, National Film Board. Non-Theatrical—Non-Government Sponsor: No award was made in this category but Honorable Mentions went to Miracle of the Bees, produced by Carey Studio for Carlings Breweries, and Sibling Relations and Personality from Crawley Films Limited. Non-Theatrical—Government Sponsor: First Aid for Aircrew, National Film Board. Honorable Mention to Huff and Puff, National Film Board. Amateur: Calgary Stampede, J. W. Ruddell. Honorable Mentions to Fox Hunting in Canada, W. Lynch, and Mexico—Land of Contrast, Norman Cowan and George Herman. Television Filmed Programs: Saskatchewan Traveller, National Film Board, and L’Alpinisme, National Film Board. Canadian Film Weekly CRITICS’ POLL (The following selections were made by newspaper, radio and mogazine critics across Canada voting for the pictures and stars they considered best during the year.) 1956 WINNERS PICTURES: 1. The King and | (Fox); 2. War and Peace (Paramount); 3. Picnic (Columbia); 4. Guys and Dolls (MGM); 5. The Man With the Golden Arm (UA); 6. Richard II} (IFD); 7. Friendly Persuasion (AA); 8. Moby Dick (Warners); 9. Rebel Without a Cause (Warners); 10, The Rose Tattoo (Paramount). STARS: 1. Frank Sinatra, 2. Deborah Kerr, 3. Yul Brynner, 4. Audrey Hepburn, 5. Laurence Olivier, 6. Anna Magnani, 7. Kim Novak, 8. Alec Guinness, 9, William Holden, 10. Susan Hayward. 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 Yeors of Our Lives (RKO); 1948—Hamlet (J. Arthur Rank); 1949—The Red Shoes (J. Arthur Rank); 1950—AIl About Eve (Fox); 1951—A Place in the Sun (Paramount); 1952—The African Queen United Artists; 1953—From Here to