NFB Collection
Canadian Screen Magazine No. 10
19463 minFilm: Documentary, News Magazine (1940-1965)
Includes two items: Lumbermen's Picnic: Lumbermen at Cloyne, Ontario, take time off for their annual picnic. Along with such events as a tug-of-war, the attractions include music by a girls' bagpipe band and an exhibition of the Highland Fling. Canadian Authors Meet: Filmed at the Canadian Authors' Association's 25th Anniversary gathering at the University of Toronto, this item presents informal shots of several of Canada's best-known writers. Among those seen are Hugh MacLennan, author of Two Solitudes, Will R. Bird, Leslie Gordon Barnard, and Morley Callaghan.
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Subject categories
- Literature and Language - Canada > Canadian LiteratureEnglish-language Writers
- Sports and Leisure > Leisure Life
- Forestry > LumberjacksOntario
Credits
- narrator
- W. Duncan Cameron
- David Cotton