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Ballet Festival

Item number (ISN):

280381

Series title:

Canada Carries On

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1949

Item number (ISN):

280381

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Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

PENGELLY, Frank

Accession:

1998-0089

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1949

Production company:

National Film Board

Production credit:

director, Roger Blais; producer, Donald Mulholland; photography, Lorne Batchelor; editing, Nicholas Balla; music arrangement, Louis Applebaum; narration, Tom Benson; technical supervision, Guy Glover.

Description:

At the Royal Alexandra Theatre in Toronto various young Canadian dancers capture the glamour and excitement of the ballet at Canada's first national Ballet Festival.

Language:

English

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1. Textual documentation, a review of the ballet festival from the magazine Saturday Night, accompanied film.~2. The festival included two original Canadian ballets: Visages, music by Walter Kaufman, choreograpy by Gwenneth Lloyd; and The Red Ear of Corn, music by John Weinzweig, choreography by Boris Volkoff.~1. Performance credits: Neo-Dance Theatre; Hamilton Ballet; Academy of Ballet; Ottawa Ballet; Ruth Sorel Modern Dance Group; Panto-Pacific Ballet Company; Winnipeg Ballet Company; Volkoff Canadian Ballet; Mildred Wickson Ballet; and Toronto Ballet School.~4. Subject description from NFB documentation.
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