FIST 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, National Film Unit, Canada Carries On
Document Summary
1938 - john grierson invited by canadian government to develop a national film unit. He was taken in due to his successful film and interests in film in the uk. May 1939 - national film board of canada established. He worked with many documentarians in the uk. He worked with many of the film makers in canada to help established the nfb the motion of the nfb mandate: interpret canada to canadians and the world * What canadians are like, what they are into etc. Nfbs first job was to interpret canada to canadian. Goal to unite people in film in ways they have not been in before. Nfb outreach after established immediately began an outreach program, Set canada out into the world not long after it was established it won the first oscar/its first oscar for documentaries short. Churchill"s island (1942) won the first oscar for best documentary short.
