Series consists of records relating to Evelyn Lambart's career with the National Film Board and to her personal life, arranged in two sub-series: Correspondence; and Journals and notebooks.
Lambart, Evelyn, 1914-1999 : The third child of Howard Frederick John Lambart and Helen Marianne Wallbridge, Evelyn Mary Lambart was born in Ottawa in 1914. As a child, she suffered from a hearing impairment, which affected her success at school. She developed an interest in art and attended the Ottawa Technical School, where she studied under the artists Alan Beddoe and Ernest Fosbery. In 1937, she went to Toronto to study commercial art at the Ontario College of Art. After graduating in 1940, she returned to Ottawa to help Alan Beddoe illuminate Canada's Book of Remembrance and exhibited her own work with the Art Association of Ottawa. She joined the National Film Board in 1942, where she worked on graphics for the World in Action series and in 1947 made her first film, The Impossible Map, a short film on map projections. In 1949, she began her collaborative work with the celebrated Norman McLaren on his animated film Begone Dull Care. She made another film on her own in 1952, O Canada, and then spent the next fifteen years collaborating with McLaren. She animated McLaren's A Chairy Tale (1957) and Short and Suite (1959), and shared directing credits with McLaren on Around is Around (1951), Rythmetic (1956), Lines Vertical (1960), Lines Horizontal (1961) and Mosaic (1975). In 1968, she turned to doing a series of her own animated films using paper cut-outs, including Fine Feathers (1968), Mr. Frog Went A-Courting (1974) and The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse (1980). In 1974, Evelyn Lambart retired from the National Film Board and bought a property in Sutton in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, where she developed an interest in gardening. In 1989, her garden was featured in the book, In a Canadian Garden, edited by Hilary Weston and Nicole Eaton, with photographs by Freeman Patterson. Evelyn Lambart died in Sutton in April 1999.
