Recherche dans la collection - Hugh MacLennan : Portrait of a Writer

NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA / OFFICE NATIONAL DU FILM DU CANADA: VIDÉO

1983-0079

Vidéo

1 of 1

1982

National Film Board

director/producer/scenario, Robert Duncan; executive producer, Roger Kennedy; Barrie Howells; photography, Vic Sarin; sound, Bob Jones; editing, Janice Brown; sound editing, Bernie Bordeleau; Diane Normandeau; music, Chris Crilly

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A portrait of and tribute to the author who, with the publication of Barometer Rising in 1941, set a precedent in Canadian literature by writing about Canadian topics and places and, in so doing, paved the way for a thriving national literary movement. Through the use of still photographs, archival footage and interviews, this documentary traces seven decades of MacLennan's public and private life as a young boy in Nova Scotia, brought up in a strict Presbyterian family of Scottish descent, as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford, as a professor at McGill University, and as the author of seven novels and numerous essays. Also featured in the film are several readings from MacLennan's work. <57mn 31s>

English

106C 0182 574

Libre

GAD 0FD579

No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

With written permission of Donor / Avec la permission écrite du donateur