FILM 2401 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: F. R. Crawley, Anne Claire Poirier, Jane Marsh Beveridge
8 Feb 2016
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Produced films and set up distribution offices in 100s of communities. Grierson hired women at all levels of production (particularly during the war) Films produced by collective: fewer impediments for women, when men came back, women couldn"t point to their achievements and so lost their job. Virtually the only training ground for women in the profession. Judith crawley: founded crawley films , her film new apple dishes (1940) was the first nfb film directed by a woman and the first canadian film to be made in colour. Jane marsh: born in ottawa, joined nfb in 1941 as a screenwriter, editor, researcher, and, one of the few women making war films, left the nfb in 1944 because grierson wouldn"t promote her director. Evelyn lambert: born in ottawa, hearing impaired, hired at nfb in 1942 creating animated maps, co-directed many films with norman mclaren, for many years, was the only woman making animated films at the nfb.
