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Paul Almond fonds [multiple media]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1913-2014.

Reference:

R4394-0-0-E, MG31-D252

Type of material:

Textual material, Photographs, Moving images, Sound recordings, Objects (including medals and pins), Art, Stamps and stamp products

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

107125

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Paul Almond fonds
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Fonds includes:

8 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1913-2014.

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Place of creation:

Canada

Added country of publication:

Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Russia (Federation), Italy, Spain

Extent:

6.895 m of textual records.
ca. 110.92 MB of textual records (ca. 13 168 files).
ca. 13,437 photographs : b&w and col. prints, negatives, contact sheets and slides.
7 audio cassettes (4 h, 4 min, 30 s).
2 videocassettes (1 h, 29 min, 50 s).
1 film reel (15 min).
3 medals.
ca. 237 MB of sound recordings (ca. 1 h 51 min 16 s).
1.21 GB of film (ca. 37 min).
2 prints : posters.
11 albums (ca. 834 photographs) : b&w.
6 drawings : pen, ink and watercolour.
42 postal stationary items : postcards.
29.2 MB of photographs (12 photographs : col.)

Language of material:

English

Added language of material:

English, Spanish, French

Scope and content:

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Fonds consists of textual records (including papers and electronic records), moving images, sound recordings, several photographs, and a few medallic objects arranged into the following eight series: Family records; Personal and biographical material; Correspondence (personal correspondence from family, friends and colleagues, as well as business correspondence); Prose, poems and stage plays; Television project files; Film project files (for Isabel, Act of the Heart, Journey, The Dance Must Go On, Ups and Downs, and various other film projects); Printed material; Other writing projects. (Please refer to series and sub-series for additional information).

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Almond, Paul, 1931-2015
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Actor: Bujold, Geneviève, 1942 -

Dancer: Leigh, Angela, 1926

Designer: Dorn, Rudi, 1926-2011

Quest Film Productions
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Almond, Paul, 1931-2015 : Paul Almond, O.C., filmmaker, was born in 1931 in Montréal, his father an Anglican minister from a Gaspé family and his mother an English dancer who taught Greek dance, drama and mime and set up a school in Montréal. He attended Bishop's College School and then Oxford University, where he was active in the Literary and Dramatic societies and met many of the foremost British poets of the day. After leaving Oxford, Almond founded the Oxford and Cambridge Players, which toured England. While in England, he attempted to establish a literary career, writing short stories, which he submitted to various Canadian periodicals. He returned to Canada in 1954 and toured the Gaspé giving poetry recitals.

Later in 1954, Almond joined the CBC, directing and producing television dramas. During his career with the CBC, he produced and directed more than one hundred television dramas, including The Hill (1956), which won the Ohio State Award for television excellence and was commissioned for a new production by the BBC. Almond's productions of adaptations of Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood (1959) and Jean Anouilh's Point of Departure (1960) also won Ohio State Awards. In 1958, Almond was the recipient of the Liberty Award for best Canadian television producer.

During the 1960s, Almond worked on a number of British productions, including Seven Up, a documentary about young children from different social and economic backgrounds, which won the Special Diploma of Merit at the 1965 Prague International Television Festival and became the first of a celebrated series continued by Michael Apted. In 1964, back in Canada, he made an experimental documentary film on ballet called Mother and Daughter, featuring his first wife, National Ballet of Canada principal dancer Angela Leigh, and her daughter.

In 1967, Almond formed a film company, Quest Films, and made his first feature film, Isabel (1968). With a script by Almond, it starred his second wife, Geneviève Bujold, and was shot in the Gaspé. Distributed by Paramount Pictures, the film won a number of Genies at the Canadian Film Awards, as well as a Directors Guild of America nomination for best feature film director. Isabel was followed by Act of the Heart (1970), the first film to receive investment from the Canadian Film Development Corporation; it starred Bujold and Donald Sutherland. The third film in this trilogy Journey (1972) again starred Bujold.

In 1981, Almond produced and directed Ups and Downs (1983), a film about life in a co-ed private school, shot in Victoria, B.C. Almond's most recent film is The Dance Goes On (1991), for which he returned to the Gaspé. It featured his son, Matt Almond, as well as James Keach, Louise Marleau and Geneviève Bujold.

Almond and Bujold divorced after Journey, and Almond went on to marry American photographer Joan Harwood Elkins. During the latter part of his career, he divided his time between homes in California, Montréal and the Gaspé. In 1999, he and Montréal journalist Michael Ballantyne published a collection of their youthful correspondence, titled High Hopes: Coming of Age at the Mid-Century.

Paul Almond was a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. He was appointed Officer of the Order of Canada in 2001. He was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Directors Guild of Canada in 2007.

From 2010 to 2015, Paul Almond wrote and had published the The Alford Saga set of fiction novels loosely based on his family's history.

Paul Almond died on April 9, 2015, in Beverly Hills, California.

Finding aid:

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Textual records and graphic material (Electronic) The finding aid provides a file list of the papers and includes printouts of the directories of the electronic records. This finding aid describes volumes 1 to 64 at the file level. MSS2065 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000000599.pdf

Moving images (Electronic) Refer to MINISIS for item-level descriptions. (90: Open)

Sound recordings (Electronic) Refer to MINISIS for item-level descriptions. (90: Open)

Electronic Records (Electronic) Please refer to series and sub-series descriptions (90: Open)

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General note:

Received in 1995 and 2003 from Paul Almond as well as in 2015 from Joan Almond.
Additional digital photographs were presented to LAC in 2022 by Dr. Molly Ungar, retired professor at the University of the Fraser Valley.

Related material:

Note that Library and Archives Canada has received a number of feature films and television films relating to Paul Almond through Quest Film Productions, the Canadian Film Institute and the CBC. These include Act of the Heart, Ups and Downs, The Dance Goes On, Le temps retrouvé, Journey, The Broken Sky, The Collection, A Slight Ache, The Dark Did Not Conquer, A Doll's House, The Hill, Horror of Darkness, Let Me Count the Ways, October Beach, Under Milk Wood, The Doll, The Sacred Scales and Macbeth. Please refer to MISACS (MINISIS) database.
Subject heading:

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Television producers and directors - Canada

Filmmakers - Canada

Motion picture industry - Canada, 1968-1991 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 1954-1991

Filmmakers - Canada Geneviève Bujold

Television - Canada, 1955-1978 Angela Leigh

Television scripts, 1955-1966

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation / Television

Theatre - Canada
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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123-020039-8
1995-235 DAP
1995/0120
1996/0083
1996/0173
1997/0119
1997/0124
1997/0139
2003-01187-0
2003-0135 VSA
2016-00164-X
2022-00187-7
95-256

Former archival reference no.:

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MG31-D252

Other accession no.:

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2003-0135 VSA
1995-235 DAP
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Access restriction document

http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/r000000618.pdf

Textual records

[Consultation96 Restrictions vary]

Finding aid box [FA 2065] 149

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Textual records: electronic

[Consultation18 Restricted]

Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [R4394] 47--61

[Consultation 90 Open]

Moving images (film)

[Consultation95 Open, no copying]

Moving images (video)

[Consultation95 Open, no copying]

Sound recordings

[Consultation96 Restrictions vary]

Object

[Consultation90 Open]
To be consulted under supervision of a Specialized Media archivist.

Sound recordings : electronic

[Consultation90 Open]

Moving images (video): electronic

[Consultation95 Open, no copying]

Graphic (art)

[Consultation96 Restrictions vary]

Philatelic records

[Consultation90 Open]

Graphic(photo): electronic

[Consultation90 Open]

Terms of use:

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Photographs: Various copyrights on items less than 50 years old. Copyright is expired on items more than 50 years old. Credit: Name of photographer / Library and Archives Canada / Copy negative no.

No reproduction without the consent of the estate of Paul Almond.
Sound recordings: Reproduction requires written permission of copyright owner.
Moving images: Reproduction requires written permission of copyright owner.
Textual records (including electronic records): The recipient of copies is responsible for determining whether material is subject to copyright and for ascertaining the name of the person or organization holding copyright. The recipient is also responsible for determining whether any use of copyrighted material does or does not constitute an infringement of copyright under the Copyright Act.
Object: Non transportable. Consultation under the supervision of a Specialized Media archivist.
Digital photographs : Reproduction requires written permission of copyright owner.

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