NFB Collection
The Magical Eye
198946 min 7 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Terence Macartney-Filgate
Production: Terence Macartney-FilgateDavid VerrallDouglas MacDonald
Script: William Whitehead
Co-produced by the NFB and the CBC.
Produced during the National Film Board of Canada's fiftieth anniversary year, The Magical Eye features clips from 21 documentary and animation film classics, interviews with NFB filmmakers past and present, and incisive commentary from film critics and historians on the role and influence of the NFB during its first half century of existence.
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Subject categories
- Film and Video Arts > Historical PerspectivesNational Film Board of Canada
- Technology Education > Communications and Technology
- Media Education > Documentary FilmFilm and Video Production
- Arts Education > Visual Arts
Credits
- director
- Terence Macartney-Filgate
- camera
- Terence Macartney-Filgate
- producer
- Terence Macartney-Filgate
- David Verrall
- executive producer
- Douglas MacDonald
- script
- William Whitehead
- narrator
- William Whitehead
- sound
- Jacques Drouin
- editing
- John Gareau
- sound editing
- Robert St-Hilaire
- re-recording
- Jean-Pierre Joutel