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Canadian Landscape

Accession number: 
1941.0011
Alternate Titles: 
Paysages canadiens
French version
Production Years: 
1941

Languages:

Film Properties: 
Length (feet): 
648 (16mm)
Length (minutes): 
18
Holding Institutions: 

Library and Archives Canada: 16mm, digibeta, VHS.
"We accompany A.Y. Jackson on painting trips by canoe and on foot to the northern wilderness of Canada in autumn. He discusses his approach to his subject matter, and shows some of his paintings."

Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec: 16mm.
"We accompany A.Y. Jackson on painting trips by canoe and on foot to the northern wilderness of Canada in autumn. He discusses his approach to his subject matter, and shows some of his paintings."

Bibliography: 

"Canada on the World Front," Film News (April 1942): 8.
"Canadian Landscape (18 min.) A teacher's film produced in collaboration with the National Gallery and showing the art of one of Canada's leading artists, A.Y. Jackson."

"Canadian Films in U.S.," Film News (April 1944): 12.
"Canadian Landscape. 18 minutes, color. In this sketch A. Y. Jackson, one of Canada's foremost modern painters, interprets the Canadian scene. $90.00"

"Canadian Scene," Film News (December 1945): 6.
[Still shot from Canadian Landscape; caption reads:] "Canadian artist, A.Y. Jackson, in a scene from Canadian Landscape, the first in a series of art films."

Online Database (National Film Board of Canada).
"We accompany A.Y. Jackson on painting trips by canoe and on foot to the northern wilderness of Canada in autumn. He discusses his approach to his subject matter, and shows some of his paintings."

"Ce film présente à l'écran A.Y. Jackson, l'un des grands paysagistes canadiens. Nous pouvons admirer quelques-uns de ces tableaux, des scènes d'hiver, la fonte des neiges et nombre d'autres tableaux de grande valeur artistique."

Gouvernement du Québec: Ministère des Communications, Direction générale du cinéma et de l’audiovisuel, Catalogue des films d’archives, volume 2 (Québec: Éditeur officiel du Québec, 1978), 125-26.
"Le peintre Alexander Y. Jackson a bien interprété la vie canadienne dans ses toiles. Il a rendu les couleurs vives de l'automne des paysages du nord de l'Ontario de même que la brillance printanière du soleil dans le Québec, à St-Tite-des-Caps."

Catalogue des films 16mm (version anglaise), Service de Ciné-photographie de l'Office provincial de publicité-Québec, édition 1951, p. 15.