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Sylvia Spring fonds [multiple media]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1968-2000.

Reference:

R8297-0-3-E

Type of material:

Moving images, Sound recordings, Photographs, Art, Textual material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

187281

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Sylvia Spring fonds
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Fonds includes:

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

1968-2000.

Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

19 film reels (5 h, 25 min).
6 optical tracks (1 h, 29 min).
15 videocassettes (17 h, 8 min, 24 s).
18 audio reels (17 h).
40 audio cassettes (32 h).
223 photographs b&w, colour; 4 filmstrips.
12.5 cm of textual records.
7 prints posters, photochemical process 60.5 x 40.8 or smaller.

Language of material:

English

Added language of material:

English, French

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Fonds consists of moving image recordings including television interviews of Florence Bird, Flora MacDonald and other Canadian women, a video about the cultural diversity of Canadian women, unedited footage of Flora MacDonald traveling in Tibet, and documentaries about a conference on women.

Fonds also includes sound recordings that consist of narration tracks for filmstrips and slide shows about childcare and women's rights. The narration tracks are accompanied by filmstrips and slides. Also included is a radio program about artist Judy Chicago, and interviews conducted by Sylvia Spring for the Judy Chicago program.

Fonds also consists of graphic material including filmstrips designed to teach children about living conditions in the developing world. The filmstrips are accompanied by narration recorded on audio cassettes. The filmstrips are in the series Something in common: children of other lands. The fonds also contains 39 still photographs, some identified as cast of the film Madeleine Is..., directed by Sylvia Spring in 1978; and 180 slides for multi-media presentation produce for the National Action Committee on the Status of Women Educational Trust in 1982. Some slides are part of Majority Report slide show and document how Canadian Women's movements are fighting for equality and justice for Canadian Women.

Also included in fonds are seven posters published by the following: the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), ca. 1986-1989, on the subjects of Food, Water, Health and Education; the CBC British Columbia's 1980 schedule of radio programs; privately published posters issued to publicize the release of Madeleine Is .. (1971), the first feature film produced and directed by a Canadian woman (Sylvia Spring), and Mattie (1978), an exhibition of historic photographs by photographer Mattie Gunterman (1872-1945) mounted at the Vancouver Public Library(see items R8297-1 to 7).

Fonds also includes textual records largely relating to the early career of Sylvia Spring as a film director but include some material on her later career as a director of training films and products. The most significant material is documentation on her feature film Madeleine Is..., including a pilot script and marketing material 1968, the 44-page film script 1969, promotional material 1970 and extensive reviews and press clippings about the making of the film. Other material includes two comic books conceived by Spring for the British Columbia Legal Services Commission for teaching aspects of the law to school children, related material, and her extensive notes, including interview transcripts, relating to a programme on the work of American feminist artist Judy Chicago (most notably her famous exhibition entitled The Dinner Party") for the radio programme Audience in 1980. There are also some general clippings on Spring and printed documentation on two film festivals in which she was involved.

Provenance:

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Spring, Sylvia, 1942

Biography/Administrative history:

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Spring, Sylvia, 1942 : Sylvia Spring, Canadian writer, media director and producer, was born in Galt, Ontario in 1942. She graduated from the State University of New York at Buffalo with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in English literature and drama. Spring has worked on productions for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the Canadian International Development Agency, Status of Women Canada, the National Film Board, the Canadian Union of Public Employees, WETV and other organizations. She has worked in a variety of media, including film, television, radio, print and photography. She began her career as a writer and researcher for CBC television in Toronto, Ontario, moving to Vancouver, British Columbia where she did freelance television work. Spring wrote, directed and co-produced a feature film, Madeleine Is. In 1979, she was appointed to the Canadian government's Task Force on Sex-Role Stereotyping in the Broadcast Media. In 1981, Spring founded Mediawatch, an independent national volunteer group fighting against the sexist portrayal of women in the media. Among the subject matter of her work is women's rights, human rights, multiculturalism, education, international development, health issues and peace. She produced a series of daily television documentaries from the Beijing World Conference on Women in 1995. In 1996 she produced a documentary on AIDS in South Africa. In 2001 CBC television broadcast her documentary 20th Century Gals. Spring is president of Making Waves Productions.

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Moving images and sound recordings: (Electronic) See MISACS database for item-level descriptions.

Photographs: (Paper) Refer to Photography: Acquisition and Research Collection File for additional information.

Posters: (Paper) Refer to the Documentary Art Acquisition and Research Collection File for a typed listing and description of material.

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General note:

Material was acquired in 1989 from Sylvia Spring and in 2001 from Making Waves Productions of Ottawa, Ontario, a film production house co-owned by Spring.

Container note(s):

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4 : Colour slides

Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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1235 (1989-05-25)
1989-0338 MISA
2001-00093-6
2001-0163 VSA
2147
2198
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Moving images (film)

[Consultation90 Open]

Moving images (video)

[Consultation90 Open]

Sound recordings

[Consultation90 Open]

Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [R8297] 3--4

[Consultation 90 Open]

Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [R8297]

[Consultation 90 Open]

2 Item no. assigned by LAC 1--7

[Consultation 90 Open]

Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [R8297] 1

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Moving images and sound recordings: Reproduction with written permission of copyright owner and donor.
Photographs: Reproduction with written permission of copyright owner and donor.
Posters: Reproduction requires the written permission of copyright owner and donor. Credit: National Archives of Canada.
Textual 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.

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