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Gary Marcuse fonds [sound recording, textual record]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1958-1986.

Reference:

R5708-0-2-E

Type of material:

Sound recordings, Textual material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

180848

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Gary Marcuse fonds
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Record information – Details
Date(s):

1958-1986.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

279 audio cassettes (ca. 13 h, 30 min).
172 audio reels (ca. 76 h).
4 cm of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of oral history interviews by Gary Marcuse as the principal interviewer of politicians, public servants, musicians, composers and others in preparation for a variety of radio programing. The interviewees for the program, The cold war in Canada, broadcast on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation series, Ideas, include Jack Granastein, Geoffrey Pearson and Lister Sinclair. The interviewees for the CBC series, Mostly music, include Louis Applebaum, Maureen Forrester, Elmer Iseler, Eric Wild and others. The interviewees for the radio drama, Official secrets, include Andrew Brewin, John G. Diefenbaker and Jack Pickersgill.

Transcripts are included for interviews with J. McRuer, Joseph K.C. Sedgewick, Andrew Brewin, Jack Pickersgill, John Diefenbaker, Gerald Baldwin, J.A. Cartwright, and speeches from the Rally for the Arts by the British Columbia Coalition for the Arts.

Fonds also consists of a radio documentary entitled, From war to peace: 40 years of international broadcasting, about Radio Canada International and its contribution to international radio.

Provenance:

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Marcuse, Gary
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Diefenbaker, John G., 1895-1979

Sinclair, Lister, 1921-2006
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Marcuse, Gary : Gary Marcuse was born in 1949 in Ithica, New York. He obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Cornell University in 1973 and a MA in Regional and Environmental Planning at Cornell in 1975. As a freelance journalist, director and producer for documentary programs, he produced reports, features, commentaries and videos for a variety of CBC network series including Ideas, Arts National and Morningside. He also produced documentaries for Radio Canada International, the British Columbia Department of Education, First Western Communications, community newpapers, the Vancouver Sun and the National Film Board as co-producer with Face to Face Media Ltd.

Some noteworthy video productions that Gary Marcuse was involved in as a director/producer are First Nations : the circle unbroken (1998), Scanning television (1997), an award-winning teaching video on developing media literacy, Nuclear dynamite (2000) with Gary Marcuse as scriptwriter, director and producer with Face to Face Media Ltd. In addition, Gary co-authored a book entitled Cold war Canada : the making of a national insecurity state, 1945-1957 (1994).

Gary Marcuse is a National President of the Canadian Independent Film Caucus, past president of the British Columbia Writers' Council and a member of the Association for the Study of Canadian Radio and Telesion. NA Collection File (AV Archives): Resume of Gary S. Marcuse.

Various Internet websites.

Finding aid:

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(Electronic) Item-level descriptions for accession 1987-0259 are available in MISACS.

(Paper) Item-level description for accession 1985-0065 is available in the Collection File.

Additional information:

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General note:

Received in 1985 and 1987 from Gary Marcuse.

Varying form of title:

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Cold war Canada : the making of a national insecurity state, 1945-1957
Subject heading:

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Politicians Canada

Hommes politiques Canada

Musicians Canada

Musiciens Canada
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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(1985-02-08)
1985-0065 MISA
1987-0259 MISA
346 (1986-12-04)
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Sound recordings

[Consultation90 Open]

Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [R5708] 1

[Consultation 90 Open]

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