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Finlay, James - Interview

Numéro d'article (ISN) :

304317

Niveau hiérarchique :

Pièce (Niveau acquisition)

Date :

1981-08-04/1981-09-19

Numéro d'article (ISN) :

304317

Genre de documents :

Documents sonores

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Fonds/collection :

CARLETON UNIVERSITY: INSTITUTE FOR CANADIAN STUDIES

No d'acquisition :

1982-0055

Support :

Enregistrement sonore

Partie :

3 of 3

Date de production :

1981-08-04/1981-09-19

Compagnie de production :

Carleton University Institute For Canadian Studies

Générique (équipe de production) :

interviewer, Ross Eaman

Description :

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Ross Eaman interviews James Finlay, former CBC producer and administrator. Finlay discusses: his personal background; his immigration to Canada; his interest in wireless; his work in the Ottawa gallery; his move to the United States; the Depression; his return to Canada to join Marconi (CFCF, Montreal) as a broadcast operator; outside broadcasts; his work for CRBC; CRBC staff; early cross-Canada link; the excitement of live broadcasts; radio in the Depression and beginning of national counsciousness; bilingual broadcasting on CRBC; his invitation to join CRBC as a junior producer by Ernie Bushnell; 1937 move to CBR, Vancouver; school program at UBC; Vancouver staff; 1937 station move into Vancouver Hotel; producer's responsibilities; working hours; CBC management; network vs. regional programming; camaraderie, good working relationship throughout Corporation; regional flavour how to make singers capture true feel of a sea shanty; unreliability of CBC accounting system; importance of sound effects; best radio play of the day; radio drama; 1940 transfer to Toronto as producer; Ira Dilworth; duties in Toronto; war shows, personnel; attentiveness of audience to news during war; program featuring Laurence Olivier and wife; 1943 discovery and performance of C.P.E. Bach harpsichord manuscripts; recording organ recital from dining room of Royal York; distribution deals between CBC and private affiliates; work in 1943 as Toronto station manger; commercial fees for producers and announcers; competition from other stations; and CBC as employer of artists in regional centres.~Finlay also comments on: commercial fees for producers and announcers; competition from other stations; CBC as employer of artists in regional centres; importance of CBC in rural areas; Toronto as "the network flagship"; French/English service separation tragic; contretemps with Ernest Macmillan over broadcast of Verdi's Requiem; dealing with artists; enthusiasm of CBC employees; resentment of public broadcasting in the west; first 25 years of CBC marked by love/hate relationship with public; speeches he gave on coming of TV on prairies; CBC paved the way for private stations; no PR department but many employees made speeches on behalf of CBC; 1954 opening of Winnipeg station; use of radio personnel; TV often like radio being photographed - communication value mainly verbal; training Winnipeg TV staff; buildings adapted for TV; selection of staff; programming capability was developed faster than planned; criticism of regional programming; Winnipeg artistic community; farm broadcasting; regions have to substitute ingenuity for money; TV inherited 50 years of Broadway, Hollywood union problems; capitalizing on local talent; sacred and folk music; Royal Winipeg Ballet; complex program distribution system; program scheduling; and coverage of prairie transmitter (CBK, Waterous).~Finlay discusses: 1944 integration of prairie French programming in two hour blocks; CBC office in London; Finlay's opinion of London chief's position, which he held for two years; 1966 interim director in Newfoundland; delicacy of Newfoundland situation - replacement Regional Director needed; his stay in Newfoundland; ideal Regional Director; native programming in the west; Alphonse Ouimet; western alienation; Ernie Bushnell; Charles Jennings; Engineering Headquarters; Roy Calhoun; Dominion/Trans-Canada network split 1944; lines of authority regions - Ottawa; Davidson Dunton; Toronto program hierarchy; lack of facilities in the west in Finlay's time; competition with two provincially owned radio stations; Christmas program which offended Winnipeg Ukrainians; diplomatic function of prairie Regional Director; W.O. Mitchell approached for rights to novel - done in Toronto instead; strength of CBC should lie in regions; and how the CBC is currently a Toronto network distributed nationally. <4h 11mn>

Langue :

English

Remarques :

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1. Recorded in Vancouver on 1981-08-04 and Ottawa on 1981-09-19.

Détails de l'inventaire :

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No. de voûte (ISN) :

339660

Support :

SOUND

Détails de l'inventaire :

C02927

Nombre de pièces :

1

Type de son :

R/R

Description technique :

POLY

Tiré de :

FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Statut :

MASTER

No. de voûte (ISN) :

339661

Support :

SOUND

Détails de l'inventaire :

C02928

Nombre de pièces :

1

Type de son :

R/R

Description technique :

POLY

Tiré de :

FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Statut :

MASTER

No. de voûte (ISN) :

339662

Support :

SOUND

Détails de l'inventaire :

C02929

Nombre de pièces :

1

Type de son :

R/R

Description technique :

POLY

Tiré de :

FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Statut :

MASTER
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with permission of Advisory Committee of CBC Oral History Project

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