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CANADIAN
CONTEST
OPENS
Photograph from National Film Board of Canada 16mm. scenes by Harley Bixler, ACL
• Frames from "Canada's Garden Province," study of Prince Edward Island by Harley Bixler, ACL. Photograph is of scene in New Brunswick. These are two of the Provinces cooperating in the contest.
THE National Film Board of Canada invites the amateur movie makers of the United States to film in Canada this summer. That official bureau of the Canadian Government urges the movie makers of this country to turn their cameras on Canada's north woods, its fishing streams, its beautiful old world cities, its lands in Quebec, where peaceful farmers follow the traditions of their French ancestors.
"Come to Canada," invites the Canadian National Film Board, and the governments of four Provinces back up this invitation with generous prizes for the best 16mm. movies made within their borders. British Columbia, Quebec, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island each offers a prize of all expense tours for two persons, while the National Film Board, itself, offers a cash prize of $500.00 for the best of the four films that win the prizes offered by the Provincial governments.
The contest, which opens March 1 and which closes November 15, 1942, is open to movie makers who are residents of the United States. It is not open to Canadians nor to United States citizens resident in Canada. In other words, the contest is planned to discover the best films made by United States tourists who visit one of four of the Provinces of Canada during the coming travel and vacation season.
To enter the contest, a movie maker would visit one or more of the four cooperating Provinces of Canada— British Columbia, Quebec, New Brunswick or Prince Edward Island — and there he would make a movie of at least 400 feet in length. As his
subject, the movie maker can select any scenic topic, any recreation or sport or combination that he chooses. He can film any industrial or community subject that is not affected by wartime restrictions. He can simply make a film of his travels, if he likes, or he can select some particular subject and confine his movie footage to that. The important thing is that the competing movie maker must devote two thirds of the footage of the finished movie to subjects filmed within the borders of the Province that he has selected. The remainder of the footage can consist of any appropriate subject matter — the movie maker's travels to Canada, his visits to other Provinces or shots made elsewhere, to develop the particular continuity, or theme, of the picture.
Thus, to enter the contest, the movie maker selects one of the four cooperating Provinces as his subject matter. If he wishes, the competing movie maker can enter more than one film in the contest [Continued on page 127]
• Frames from "Hail, British Columbia!", film of that Province by Leo J. Heffernan, ACL. Photograph is of scene in Quebec. Both these Provinces are cooperating in the National Film Board contest.
National Film Board of Canada
New contest offers $500.00 cash and other big prizes