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Film Policy for Canada.Pdf A FILM POLICY FOR Movie CANADA QuiZ By JOHN GRIERSON 1. How many movie theatres are there in Canada? '-'~~ 2. How much do Canadians spend in a year on admission to the ~ ~ movies? -, J_~, _ 3. Are any film s made in Canada? )~ 4. How many Canadian-born film stars can you name? 'tI't./II , I 5. How often do you think the average Canadian went to the movies, say in 1942? \ 6. Can you name five Canadian-made films. " \ 7. What agency produces most of the films made in Canada? r!-l 8. How many Hollywood films about Canada can you remember? ' J~/V/ 9. Are Canadian-made films shown in more theatres in Canada or in United States? Y 10. How much do you think it cost to produce the prize-winning Canadian film "Churchill's Island"--$5,000, $10,000, $50,000? ( An.rwer.r t(J Quiz. on page 10.) CANADIAN OT"!'AWA :. BDMOND CLOUTIRIt. PRINTE R TO THE KINO'S MOST BXCBLLB"l'Io'T MAJBlTY AFFAIRS PR.INTED IN CANADA, 19U A story on what Canada is doing in the field of films told by the man who haS been in charge of the job. A Film Policy for Canada By JOHN GRIERSON Canada and This Movie SAW a film program the other excltmg. For ten reels we exam I day. It had a short picture ined Ginger's dreams so that we describing the desolation of the could get to the bottom of that Business war, the despair of peoples' .lives sex life of hers and, of course, it Most of us wouldn't mind having a nickel for every hour we have in occupied Europe, the problems was an excuse for high jinks in spent at the movies-or even for every hour we've spent talking about we all have to face in re-establish­ every SOrt of emotional direction movies. Through them we get most of our entertainment and a good ing and reconstructing the world. and in technicolor tOO . deal of our news and education. It described an. issue as important I need not tell you that in high But as far as movies are concerned Canada up till now hasn't been as any on God 's green earth to­ COntrast with the realistic bit much more than a colony of Hollywood. That's why many Canadians day, involving the fate and future about occupied Europe, the boys have been asking the question: Will Canada ever amount to anything of. society and civilization. It and girls, especially the girls, ate in this movie game? was a two reeler. It was not this one up, and the picture can­ Why not a Canadian Hollywood? We have talent. We have a important from the point of view not fail to make from four to five good deal of technical skill. But are the stakes toO high? Could we of box office, because it did not million dollars 'domestic'. ever produce anything better than a cheap imitation of the American have a love story. product? Would it be worth the effort? On the same program was a Nowhere To Go On the next pages you will find the ideas of Mr. John Grierson, of dazzling epic. It had everything, I beg you to examine the the National Film Board of Canada, one of the most colorful men in including Ginger Rogers . Ginger presence of these two films in the the movingjicture industry. What he says will certainly start you thinking an will probably start an argument. was having a hell of a time too, just like the poor desolate dis­ His claims: rupted people of Europe. She also (1) There is a way in which Canada could playa part in the pro­ needed rehabilitation and recon­ duction of first-class feature pictures. struction. (2) There is what he calls a "non-theatrical" revolution in movies The poor darling was a big shot going on right now in Canada.. on a fashion magazine , rich and secure and nothing to prevent a (3) Canada is already becoming a world leader in the production good time being had by one and of a new kind of film-which can exist side by side with the Holly­ wood feature productions and which is playing a part on the job of all, except that she was all balled building a better Canada. up with her sex . It was very "e'l'erything including Ginger Rogers" 2 3 same program. The first about epics, some great biographies, No Quick Answers toevski said, without passing Europe was a deep and serious some dramas that deal with real This is the first problem in film through Sodom and Gomorrah, thing, simple, straight-forward, people and real issues of life do criticism and no one should jump I mention this to emphasize informative. The second ·was this. Some stars, by the quality to fast conclusions as to what is that there are no quick answers as about a rich dame who didn't of their personality, have this what. Some over-righteous cri­ to what is good and bad in the need a thing in the world but a · effect too. They deepen the au­ tics don't know vitality from a movies. It is sometimes a salutary good sound thrashing and a sense dience's sense of itself. They tend hole in the ground and think business to play ducks and drakes of purpose. to pull back the drooping should­ everything is vulgar which is wi th the accepted conventions of The movies- of America 1Q ers of Joe Doakes; they add spring not respectable and sedate. You behavior, and the accepted digni­ particular - sometimes reflect a to the instep of his faded Missus. will find a dash of bawdiness and ties and pretensions of our leaders silly inconsequential outlook on They give a mite more courage, coarseness in the greatest art. If and masters. Perhaps they are life. Often they do not reflect more appreciation of being alive, you deal with life honestly, you not as solid as they appear to be. a purposeful society but rather a to the millions of ordinary people deal with complex relationships Who knows until they have been neurotic, meaningless society who tend to bog down in the hum­ of cause and effect. You do not kicked about a bit whether or not which is all dressed up and has drum of routine. That is the good arrive at the Virgin Mary, Dos- they are phonies? nowhere to go. That is the really side of movies, with infinite pos­ bad thing about the movies. sibilities. The bad side one has also to In Business for Your Health? expect in this world. When you To some, movies are the 'film are looking for an escape from the GOOD OR BAD, business', which is to say a busi­ drag, who is to say where inspira­ ness like any other, making pro­ tion stops and cheese cake begins, WE fits. Profits depend on the box where vitality stops and vul­ office and a carefully calculated garity begins, where enjoyment IMPORT THEM estimate of what people in the becomes foolish and only success­ theatre are hungry for-sex and ful in depressing vi tali ty? heroism, comedy and adventure, day dreams and romance. When it comes to movies, good confusion of thought and purpose, The movie takes people out of or bad, Canada is a dependency the United States is a great and themselves in different ways; of the United States. By far the wonderful centre of human energy. sometimes healthy, sometimes un­ greatest part of the film product The technical skill of its films is healthy, sometimes in a time­ comes from Hollywood . The astounding, and the creative in­ killing way that makes no dif­ biggest chain of theatres is under genuity behind them is enormous . ference one way or another. It is the suzerainty of New York. The But it is well to face the fact healthy when it quickens or tones newsreels are made up in New that the skill and ingenuity, the the nerves. A lot of comedy does York images, the characters, the stories, this. It is healthy when it sets a I do not mean to say this is a the themes, are defined by others. high example and inspires. Some "pull back drooping shoulder$" bad thing, because with all its The evaluation of what is good or 4 5 ioned nationalistic nonsense? Is American Products But charge for war advertising, they it not the curse of the nations that Canadian Loyalties do not charge for screen space. everyone of them should be so We shall have to be practical, Until the war began, there was insistent on its own unique and and there are some practical things very little Canadian film they special virtues? to consider before you decide the could show. The government Isn't there another world of answer. Let me say first of all, made a few films of an industrial loyalty, faith and pride in which the Canadian movie distributors or scenic type and so did Associa­ -----, '-­.;) national barriers do not mean a and theatre operators, sometimes ted Screen News, Montreal. But thing? I mean the world in which referred to as our film industry, there was in no sense a 'flow' of "",hat i, the Jjfference?" all men need identically the same are a loyal group of men. They production. things-houses and families and a depend for their living on Amer­ The situation has changed bad, right or wrong, beautiful or creative job in the world to do­ ican production; many of them during the war because the gov­ ugly, is done by others.
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