PAT THOMPSON POV HOME TO BUXTON he orange neon sign proclaims "The In 1849, the Rev . William King of Louisiana State", the marquee says "POV", and arrived in Buxton, Ontario, with 15 black slaves, a bearded man comes out of the and started a settlement there. The purpose of cinema. He strides briskly along the this community near Chatham was to buy street and pauses to light his pipe. farming land in order to help themselves, and TThough he glances around, he feels rather than also to sell food and wood. By 1856 it was a sees he's being followed by a younger male. The thriving, all-black self-supporting settlement, man goes into the parking garage, climbs up the ",rith its chief livelihood gained from farming . glass-enclosed stairwell (watched by the Donald Johnston and his wife still live on the follower) and drives his car down the ramp still, family farm and he talks about his background apparently, unaware of his 'tail '. and history ; he was one of 12 children, and has Film posters adorn the walls of the man 's always farmed . In the 1800s some 700 young apartment - Diva, Paris / Texas - and there's a people from Buxton, Chatham, and Toronto Hitchcock standee. The man inserts a sheet of went back to contribute to the reconstruction of paper into his typewriter and starts to review the South . Now their descendants come to POV. However, interspersed with the critic's Buxton each Labour Day, and this film records typing, is the 'reality' -an author working at his the 62nd Labour Day Homecoming, devoted to word processor on the creation of the 'fiction ' celebrating and preserving their heritage . story of the film unfolding before one's eyes. .. There 's a street parade, and dancing - a Avery neat exploration of filmic illusion and sprightly 93-year-old man takes to the floor - and its approximation of reality. Concisely lots of singing and harmonizing and hugging organized and thought out, with tension and kissing and, of course, eating. Awoman skillfully maintained in the editing, plus an talks of her grandfather who bought the acreage ending that's suspenseful and somewhat that, to this day, is used for a park ; while a unexpected - but it's not going to be revealed young farmer extols farming because, for him, it here! is a family affair in which his children, parents POV has recently won a couple of well-deserv­ and grandparents are all involved. ed awards: 1988 American Film and Video Aquiet , informative social document which Festival, Blue Ribbon (first place) Short Film sheds light upon an all-black community which Category, and 15th Athens International Film has flourished in Ontario for well over a Festival, Best Narrative Film. But the film has hundred years. Little is filmed about black A truly honourable Member of Parliament, Stanley Knowles been rejected by several Canadian festivals ... participation in the life of Canada, and this p.lsc. jess Hewitt, Glenn Warner. d.led. Glenn Warner. record is a small, touching start in the right reelected and, at 50, was looking for another job. cam. Chris McNamara, Glenn Warner, james Soda. sd. & Elected executive vice-president of the Canadian foley james Soda. mus . john May, Peter Brannen. I. p. Peter direction. STANLEY KNOWLES: p.ldir. OairePrieto, Roger McTair. cam . john Hutton, john Halford (Critic ), Mark Lefebvre (Gunman ), Alistair BY WORD AND DEED Labour Congress, he brought about the union of Walker, Steve Demme . sd. Peter Sawade, Doug McKenzie. Macleod (Author) 12 mins. 16mm. Availability : POV the labour movement and the CCF to form Sponsored by the jamaica-Canada Assn . 30 mins "For such a dry stick, Stanley does evoke an Productions, 468 St. Oarens Ave., #206, Toronto, Onto 16mm1video. Distributor : McNabb & Connolly Films, 49 emotional response in people! " (Biographer another party. Within three years the NOP was M6A 3W5. (416) 532-4095. Danville Dr., Willowdale, Ont. M2F lj2 (416) 226-3060. Susan Mann) born. In 1962 Stanley Knowles was back in For over 40 years, Stanley Knowles was an Parliament, the NOP won only 19 seats, and incorruptible, upright Member of Parliament, Diefenbaker was PM. steeped in integrity and fired with concern for Knowles turned down retirement to the social reform. Even though he was a United Sena te (an insti tution he wanted abolished) and Church minister before running as a candidate remained in the House of Commons until 1984, for the CCF (Cooperative Commonwealth when he gave up his seat after a stroke ... Federation), he was not exactly your fire-and­ prevented him from functioning as fully as he brimstone preacher. But without Knowles ' wished. tenacity and conviction in Parliament, many bills Aired on CBC in June to mark Stanley p () 'J for the betterment of society would not have Knowles' 80th birthday, this unblushing tribute passed: "He worries a problem to death - nag to a man of whom it's been said, "... he was 60 PREVlE" ""l\"~t. day after day and you get what you want l" says years old when he was 20 years old", is a little the film 's narrator, Peter Gzowski. prosaic, but full of admiration for its subject and Stanley Knowles lost his first by-election in his life of dedication. And this is all the film deals 1935 when he was 27 years old . It wasn't until with. While Knowles boarded with the same November 1942 that he won in Winnipeg North Ottawa family during all his parliamentary Centre, arriving in Ottawa in January 1943 for years, his wife and children were in Manitoba, the 19th session of Parliament. After being and there's no hint of how this affected their reprimanded by the Speaker on a point of lives. But to Stanley Knowles, the House of procedure, Knowles set out to master the Commons was his life. This'isn't a spectacular complexities of parliamentary rules and became film, but it is a sincere, affectionate and, indeed, so knowledgeable that, according to journalist useful portrait of a man who lived in and for Charles Lynch, "He was the terror of successive Parliament. Speakers. " p. Cygnus/FiJm Arts, Toronto d./~ Curtis CQm. John In 1958, when the CCF standing plummetted Griffin TUm . Peter Gzowski. 55 mil' 16mm/%"M". Distributian :National Film Board. Made with assistance A moeblus strip of • movie - POV from 25 to eight seats, Stanley Knowles was not from the National Film Board. 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