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The Quality of a Nation

Accession number: 
1962.0024
Alternate Titles: 
Vers notre deuxième siècle
French version
Production Years: 
1962

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Film Properties: 
Length (feet): 
1044 (16mm)
Length (minutes): 
30
Holding Institutions: 

Library and Archives Canada: 16mm, 3/4".
"A film designed in planning for the Canadian Centennial of Confederation, offering suggestions and giving a kaleidoscopic impression of Canada. Includes presentations by: Vincent Massey, A.Y. Jackson, Roby Kidd, Maurice Richard, Gratien Gélinas, E.J. Gall, Mavor Moore, Alex Webster and Andrée Paradis. Illustrations range from the Changing of the Guards on Parliament Hill, to the election of officers in an Eskimo co-operative in Ungava, from slum clearance in Halifax to an outdoor theatre in Burnaby, British Columbia, from a pioneer lumbering museum, to Canadian Olympic victories at Squaw Valley."

"Film tourné afin d'aider dans la planification du Centenaire de la Confédération canadienne, offrant des suggestions et donnant une impression kaléidoscopique du Canada. Incluant des présentations de: Vincent Massey, A.Y. Jackson, Roby Kidd, Maurice Richard, Gratien Gélinas, E.J. Gall, Mavor Moore, Alex Webster, et Andrée Paradis. Les scènes vont du changement de la garde sur la colline parlementaire à l'élection des membres du comité directeur d'une coopérative esquimaude en Ungada, du nettoyage de taudis à Halifax au théâtre extérieur à Burnaby en Colombie Britannique, d'un musée de pionniers de l'industrie forestière aux victoires canadiennes aux olympiques de Squaw Valley."

University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta: 16mm.
"A film for Canada's centennial, begins with a series of dramatizations of statements made by pre-Confederation statesmen, then moves on to examine things Canadian in the light of the present and of the future. Illustrations range from Changing of the Guard on Parliament Hill in Ottawa to the election of officers in an eskimo Co-operatives in Ungava; from slum clearance in Halifax, to an outdoor theatre in Burnaby, B.C.; and from a pioneer lumbering museum, to Canadian Olympic victories in 1960. Other sequences indicate that we still have time to do those things, "which any nation ought to do before it is a hundred years old."
From the Catalogue of 16mm Educational Motion Pictures. Published by the Educational Media Division, Department of Extension, University of Alberta, Edmonton, 1967.

Bibliography: 

Crawley Films, Free Films: Sources of Free 16mm Sponsored Films in Canada Compiled and Published by Crawley Films (Ottawa: Crawley Films, April 1969): 17.
"The Canadian century."

Comments: 
Vic Atkinson: titles.