Embattled Shadows is the first and only history of Canadian film making in the years before the establishment of the National Film Board of Canada in 1939. It begins with an entertaining account of the travelling showmen who brought the movies to large and small communities across the country, and discusses the films produced in Canada before World War I. In the atmosphere of heightened nationalism during and after the war there was a determined attempt to establish a film industry. Peter Morris chronicles its occasional successes while, at the same time, examining the reasons behind its ultimate failure -- using the colourful career of the independent producer Ernest Shipman ("Ten Percent Ernie") as a particular reference. He goes on to describe the establishment and eventual collapse of both the federal and Ontario governments' Motion Picture Bureaus. By the Thirties, with the connivance of the Canadian government, Canadian feature film Production had deteriorated to the point of turning out "quota" films from the Hollywood mould.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 791.43/0971
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn---
- ISBN
- 9780773560727 0773503226
- LCCN
- PN1993.5.C2
- LCCN Item number
- M67 1978eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- DLC
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (350 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00209630 (OCoLC)243600718 (CaOOCEL)407480
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- DLC
Table of Contents
- Contents 4
- Illustrations 6
- Preface 8
- Preface to the 1992 Reprint 10
- 1. Came the Dawn 12
- Enter the Hollands 14
- Movies at the Fair 18
- Living Pictures Now Being Shown 22
- Catering to the Refined 29
- 2. The Early Years 38
- Images of Canada 40
- "But No Snow or Ice Scenes" 44
- Adventures in the Northwoods 50
- "It Surely is a Good Beginning" 56
- 3. The Years of Promise 68
- Hollywood of the North 74
- Blooms in Innocence 93
- 4. Ten Percent Ernie 106
- Search for a Dream 110
- On to Ottawa 128
- Dark Day's Morning 134
- 5. The State and the Movies 138
- Civil Servants as Film Makers 142
- Ontario—And Two Producers, Rampant 148
- British Columbia et al.—And Trenton Again 160
- How to Take Care of the Means—And Forget the Meaning 170
- 6. The Years of the Quota 186
- North of 49 193
- Victoria's Quota Quickies 199
- All But Canadian 206
- 7. Supporting Program 228
- Ben Norrish Again—With Gordon Sparling 233
- An End and a Beginning 243
- 8. Postscript 248
- Appendix I: A Chronology of Film in Canada, 1894–1913 254
- Appendix II: Filmography: Select List of Canadian Productions, 1913–1939 262
- Notes 286
- Film Title Index 338
- A 338
- B 338
- C 339
- D 340
- E 340
- F 340
- G 340
- H 341
- I 341
- J 341
- K 341
- L 341
- M 342
- N 342
- O 342
- P 343
- Q 343
- R 343
- S 343
- T 344
- U 345
- V 345
- W 345
- Y 345
- General Index 346
- A 346
- B 346
- C 348
- D 350
- E 351
- F 351
- G 352
- H 353
- I 353
- J 353
- K 354
- L 354
- M 355
- N 356
- O 356
- P 357
- Q 357
- R 358
- S 358
- T 359
- U 360
- V 360
- W 361
- Z 361
