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Burritt, Oscar - Interview

Item number (ISN):

366005

Series title:

Embattled Shadows

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1972

Item number (ISN):

366005

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

MORRIS, Peter

Accession:

1979-0270

Media:

Sound

Part:

3 of 3

Production date:

1972

Production company:

Kirwan Cox (Interviewer)

Description:

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Interview with Oscar Burritt, founder of the film society movement in Canada. Subjects discussed include: the inspiration for Burritt’s career in cinema; learning to process films; costs of producing early sound films; monopoly of Hollywood films in Canadian cinemas; the Vancouver Film Society; establishment of the National Film Board of Canada (NFB); the Dominion Film Bureau; individuals involved in early production of Canadian films including Leon Shelley; the development of Canadian cinema with the advent of WWII; prestige films and documentaries made in Canada near the war’s end; Burritt’s first meeting with Budge Crawley; the Canadian content quota applied in B.C.; West French Canadians in the Vancouver film production industry; beginnings of the NFB’s French Unit; Trans-Canada films; the threat of Hollywood to the Canadian film industry; pressures and harassment experienced by the Vancouver Film Society; lobbying to prevent the production of Canadian films; quota quickies; the high cost of licences and patents on production equipment; and Burritt’s experience with film production in Toronto. <1h 30mn>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. This interview was done as part of research for the book entitled Embattled Shadows: A History of Canadian Cinema 1895-1939.~2. Peter Morris died on 2 February 2011.~3. Unrelated interview on right channel of 1979-0270/09.

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Vault ISN:

413543

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

1979-0270/07
1979-0270/08
1979-0270/09

Number of items:

3

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Duration:

48:25

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG
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Open

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with written permission of copyright owner : no donor restrictions~Copyright owner: Peter Morris.

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