List of Canadian films of the 1950s
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This is a list of Canadian films which were released in the 1950s.
Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
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1950 | ||||||
Forbidden Journey | Richard J. Jarvis | Jan Rubeš, Susan Douglas, John Colicos | Drama | |||
Lights of My City (Les Lumières de ma ville) | Jean-Yves Bigras | Huguette Oligny, Monique Leyrac | Drama | [1] | ||
Séraphin | Paul Gury | Hector Charland, Nicole Germain, Guy Provost | Drama | [2] | ||
1951 | ||||||
Around Is Around & Now Is the Time | Norman McLaren | NFB experimental shorts | An early experimentation in 3D by Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambart; CFA - Special award[3] | |||
The Fight: Science against Cancer | Morten Parker | NFB animated short | Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject); Canadian Film Award - Special Award[4] | |||
Neighbours | Norman McLaren | Grant Munro, Jean Paul Ladouceur | NFB short made by pixilation technique | Academy Award Short Subject (One-reel) nominee and Best Documentary (Short Subject) winner; AV Preservation Trust Masterwork | ||
Newfoundland Scene | F. R. Crawley | Frank Peddie | Documentary | |||
Royal Journey | David Bairstow, Gudrun Parker, Roger Blais | NFB documentary | ||||
1952 | ||||||
The Bird Fancier (L'Homme aux oiseaux) | Bernard Devlin, Jean Palardy | Drama | ||||
Étienne Brûlé, gibier de potence | Melburn Turner | Paul Dupuis, Jacques Auger, Ginette Letondal | Drama | The film was shot in both French and English, and is credited as being the first Canadian feature in colour.[5] | ||
Little Aurore's Tragedy (La petite Aurore, l’enfant martyre) | Jean-Yves Bigras | Yvonne Laflamme, Lucie Mitchell | Drama | [6] | ||
The Nightingale and the Bells (Le Rossignol et les cloches) | René Delacroix | Gérard Barbeau, Nicole Germain, Jean Coutu, Juliette Béliveau | Drama | |||
Opera School | Gudrun Parker | Marguerite Gignac | Docudrama | |||
The Romance of Transportation in Canada | Colin Low | NFB animated short | The received a special BAFTA Award, the Short Film Palme d'Or for animation at Cannes Film Festival, as well as an Academy Award for Animated Short Film nomination. | |||
The Settler (L'Abatis) | Bernard Devlin, Raymond Garceau | Short documentary | ||||
1953 | ||||||
Farewell Oak Street | Grant McLean | Kate Reid, Eric Clavering | Docudrama | Canadian Film Award – Theatrical Short[7] | ||
Herring Hunt | Julian Biggs | NFB short | Academy Award nominee[8] | |||
A Mother's Heart (Cœur de maman) | René Delacroix | Jeanne Demons, Paul Desmarteaux, Jean-Paul Dugas, Paul Guèvremont | Drama | |||
Tit-Coq | René Delacroix & Gratien Gélinas | Gratien Gélinas, Clément Latour, Monique Miller, Denise Pelletier, Paul Dupuis | Drama based on the play by Gélinas | |||
1954 | ||||||
Corral | Colin Low | NFB short | ||||
The Seasons | Christopher Chapman | Short documentary | ||||
The Stratford Adventure | Morten Parker | Narrated by John Drainie | NFB documentary | This was named Film of the Year at the Canadian Film Awards and nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature | ||
1955 | ||||||
Blinkity Blank | Norman McLaren | NFB animated short | It received the Short Film Palme d'Or at the 1955 Cannes Film Festival | |||
1956 | ||||||
Gold | Colin Low | Documentary short | ||||
Rythmetic | Norman McLaren & Evelyn Lambart | NFB animated short | ||||
Skidrow | Allan King | CBC documentary | Canadian Film Awards – TV Information[9] | |||
Le Village enchanté | Marcel Racicot & Réal Racicot | Animated | Canada's first animated feature.[10] | |||
1957 | ||||||
A Chairy Tale | Norman McLaren & Claude Jutra | Claude Jutra | NFB short Pixilation | Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Live Action) | ||
City of Gold | Colin Low & Wolf Koenig | Klondike Gold Rush; Documentary | Winner of the Palme d'or for best short film at the 1957 Cannes Film Festival and nominated for an Academy Award Best Short Subject, Live Action Subjects | |||
Legend of the Raven | Judith Crawley | Documentary | Canadian Film Awards – Arts and Experimental[11] | |||
Oedipus Rex | Tyrone Guthrie | Douglas Campbell, Eleanor Stuart, William Hutt, Douglas Rain | Classic drama from the original Stratford Festival stage version based on a translation by W. B. Yeats[12] | |||
1958 | ||||||
Les brûlés | Bernard Devlin | Jean Lajeunesse, J. Léo Gagnon, Félix Leclerc | Drama | |||
A Dangerous Age | Sidney J. Furie | Ben Piazza, Anne Pearson, Kate Reid, Austin Willis, Barbara Hamilton | Drama | |||
Flaming Frontier | Sam Newfield | Bruce Bennett, Jim Davis, Cec Linder, Larry Solway | Western | A low-budget B-Western shot in Los Angeles and Calgary and made with Canadian financing.[13] | ||
Ivy League Killers | William Davidson | Don Borisenko, Don Francks, Barbara Bricker | Drama | |||
The Living Stone | John Feeney | NFB documentary | Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short. | |||
Money Minters | Ted De Wit | Documentary | ||||
Now That April's Here | William Davidson, Norman Klenman | Don Borisenko, Judy Welch, John Drainie, Katherine Blake, Tony Grey, Walter Massey | Drama | [14] | ||
The Quest | Stanley Jackson | Leo Ciceri, Dennis Stanway, Norman Ettlinger | Short drama | |||
Les Raquetteurs | Michel Brault, Gilles Groulx | NFB documentary | ||||
The Tall Country | Osmond Borradaile | Documentary | ||||
Wolf Dog | Sam Newfield | Ben Piazza, Austin Willis | Drama | |||
1959 | ||||||
The Back-Breaking Leaf | Terence Macartney-Filgate | NFB documentary | Part of the groundbreaking NFB Candid Eye series shown on the CBC-TV (1958–61); Cannes Film Festival – Palme d'Or for Television Documentary[15] | |||
The Bloody Brood | Julian Roffman | Jack Betts, Barbara Lord, Peter Falk, Robert Christie | Drama | |||
A Cool Sound from Hell | Sidney J. Furie | Anthony Ray, Carolyn D’Annibale, Madeline Kronby | Drama | |||
Glenn Gould: On/Off the Record | Wolf Koenig, Roman Kroitor | NFB documentary | Part of the Candid Eye series[16][17] |
References
- ^ Les Lumières de ma ville http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/canadian-feature-film-database/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=98&DotsIdNumber= Retrieved August 5, 2015.
- ^ Séraphin http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/canadian-feature-film-database/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=96&DotsIdNumber= Retrieved August 5, 2015.
- ^ Wise, Wyndham (2001). Take One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. pp. 12–13, 154. ISBN 0-8020-3512-4. Retrieved March 30, 2017.
- ^ Wise, Wyndham (2001). Take One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. pp. 76–77. ISBN 0-8020-3512-4. Retrieved March 30, 2017.
- ^ Pallister, Janis L. (1995). The Cinema of Québec: Masters in Their Own House. Mississauga: Associated University Presses. p. 66. ISBN 0-8386-3562-8.
- ^ Clandfield, David (1987). Canadian Film. Toronto: Oxford University Press. p. 60. ISBN 0-19-540581-1.
- ^ Farewell Oak Street https://www.nfb.ca/film/farewell_oak_street Retrieved August 5, 2015.
- ^ "Herring Hunt". www.nfb.ca. Retrieved August 5, 2015.
- ^ Skidrow http://hotdocslibrary.ca/en/detail.cfm?filmId=22523 Retrieved August 5, 2015.
- ^ Clandfield, David (1987). Canadian Film. Toronto: Oxford University Press. p. 119. ISBN 0-19-540581-1.
- ^ Legend of the Raven http://www.screenculture.org/cesif/node/1350[permanent dead link] Retrieved 8/6/15.
- ^ Wise, Wyndham (2001). Take One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. p. 155. ISBN 0-8020-3512-4. Retrieved March 30, 2017.
- ^ Flaming Frontier http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/canadian-feature-film-database/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=123&DotsIdNumber= Retrieved 8/6/15.
- ^ Clandfield, David (1987). Canadian Film. Toronto: Oxford University Press. p. 87. ISBN 0-19-540581-1.
- ^ Wise, Wyndham (2001). Take One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. p. 15. ISBN 0-8020-3512-4. Retrieved March 30, 2017.
- ^ Glenn Gould: On the Record https://www.nfb.ca/film/glenn_gould_on_record
- ^ Glenn Gould: Off the Record https://www.nfb.ca/film/glenn_gould_off_record Retrieved 8/6/15.
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