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National Film Board and pre-NFB project files [textual record, graphic material]

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Series

Date:

1961-1979.

Reference:

R4639-3-0-E, MG31-D109

Type of material:

Textual material, Photographs

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

130620

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Robin Spry fonds

National Film Board and pre-NFB project files
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Series includes:

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Date(s):

1961-1979.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

7.12 m of textual records.
ca. 800 photographs b&w.

Language of material:

English

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Series consists of material on both realised and unrealised film projects written, directed or produced by Robin Spry while he worked at the National Film Board (NFB) from 1964 to 1977, as well as some files on pre-NFB material, such as the script and research for Together Apart, Apart Together (1962), which Spry submitted as a student to a London film festival. Among the realised films documented are Miner (1965), Little White Crimes (1966), Change in the Maritimes (1966), Illegal Abortion (1966), Flowers on a One-Way Street (1967), Prologue (1969), Action: The October Crisis of 1970 (1973), Downhill (1973), and Drying Up the Streets (1978). There is material on Spry's short experimental film Face (1975) and on Don't Forget/Je Me Souviens for the CBC series For the Record, scripted by Spry's wife, Carmel Dumas. There is extensive material on the NFB feature film One Man, which Spry directed and wrote. In general, the series contains outlines, script drafts, research notes, budget outlines, production stills, photographs, publicity material and correspondence, including letters from Roman Kroitor, James de B. Domville, Vladimir Valenta, Tom Daly, David Novak, Joseph Koenig, Julian Biggs, and motorcycle racer Mike Duff. The series also documents unrealised projects, including one sub-series of special files as well as files on the projects Jay and Strangers in the Eden Five, which were found inter-filed with the realised project files. There are a number of photographs, largely production stills, inter-filed with textual documents in the project files.

The additional material consists of a small amount of material relating to Spry's work as an extra in films while he was a student, and correspondence concerning his unpublished novel Tania, including comments by Lovat Dickson.

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Arrangement note:

The photographs are inter-filed with the textual records.

Source:

Private

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MG31-D109
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [MG31 D 109]

[Consultation 90 Open]

139--174;

[Consultation 90 Open]

180--186;

[Consultation 90 Open]

Graphic (photo)

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Date modified:: 2024-06-27