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A New Future Lies North

Accession number: 
1956.0025

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Production Years: 
1956

Languages:

  • English
  • French
Film Properties: 
  • 16mm
  • Colour
  • Sound
Length (feet): 
780 (16mm)

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Library and Archives Canada: 16mm, 3/4".
"A look at the economic future of Canada with emphasis on how geographical and physical factors affect development."

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"World-Wide News...Selected for Significance," Film News 17, no. 1 (Spring 1957): 7.

"A 300-seat theater has been approved for the Canadian Pavilion to be erected at the Brussels Universal and International Exhibition in 1958. The theater will be used to tell some of the expected 25-million Exhibition visitors about Canada. Films to be shown will be in three major categories: Resources and Industry; Education and Information; also, Canadian Culture.
Among films selected so far are: CANADIAN PROFILE (National Film Board of Canada); A NEW FUTURE LIES NORTH and NEWFOUNDLAND SCENE (Crawley's Ltd.); CALGARY STAMPEDE (Davart); THE SEASONS (Christopher Chapman); and JAMBOREE (Chetwynd Films)."