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John Peter Stacey Pickersgill fonds [moving images, graphic material]
Hierarchical level:FondsContext of this record:Fonds includes:1 lower level description(s)View lower level description(s) -
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Record information John Peter Stacey Pickersgill fonds [moving images, graphic material]
Date:1972-1992.Reference:R9100-0-X-EType of material:Moving images, ArtFound in:Archives / Collections and FondsItem ID number:190420Date(s):1972-1992.Place of creation:CanadaExtent:6 film reels (ca. 1 h, 8 min).
6 magnetic tracks (ca. 1 h, 8 min).
951 drawings : pen and ink, pen and felt pen and black ink, ink wash.
6 prints : b&w lithographs.Language of material:EnglishScope and content:Fonds consists of moving images including fifty-three episodes of Pic's pick produced by Pickergill in 1975 for the Global Television network along with a pilot for the series that was never broadcast. The series consists of animated news stories in one minute episodes. Issues dealt with include: the postal strike, wage and price controls, the gasoline tax, US-Israeli relations and the personality of Prime Minister Trudeau. The fonds also includes the short film Halibut York. This short children's tale represents the first artistic collaboration between Pickersgill and Peter Desbarats, then Global Television's Ottawa Bureau Chief. Desbarats wrote the story while Pickergill illustrated it and shot the footage.
Also included in fonds are other artworks by Peter Pickersgill consisting of 951 editorial cartoons on a wide variety of local, provincial, national and international topics, as well as 6 lithographs which focus on the architecture of rural Newfoundland. Graphic material has been divided into a separate series entitled Cartoon drawings.Provenance:Biography/Administrative history:Pickersgill, Peter, 1945- : Pic is the pen name of Peter Pickersgill. Pickersgill was born in 1945 and graduated from the University of British Columbia in 1971. He has worked as an editorial cartoonist for the Montreal Star, the Vancouver Sun, and the Ottawa Citizen. He has lived in Ottawa on and off since 1972, and is now a free-lance cartoonist who syndicates his work. He has also experimentated with animation, producing a daily political animated cartoon for Global Television.Additional information:General note:Received between 1991 and 1995 from J. Peter Pickersgill.Source:Private -
Ordering and viewing options Conditions of access:Moving images (film)[Consultation Open]Graphic (art)[Consultation Open]
Some items must be consulted under supervision for conservation purposes.Box [1996-009][Consultation Open]2000916289 Item no. assigned by LAC 63--68[Consultation Open]Terms of use:Moving images Reproduction and use in any form requires the written permission of the copyright holder and of the donor.
Graphic material: Reproduction and/or use for other than archival purposes requires permission of J. Peter Pickersgill. Copyright: J. Peter Pickersgill. Credit: National Archives of Canada.You can order materials in advance to be ready for you when you visit. You will need a user card to do this.
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