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CANADIAN TELEVISION FUND

2004-0097

Vidéo

1 of 1

2002-01-31

Galafilm
National Film Board of Canada

director/writer, Merrily Weisbord; director, Tanya Ballantyne Tree; producer, Annie Gelbart; executive producer, Sally Bochner; photography, Stefan Nitoslavski; John Walker; Donna Dobbs; Alex Hanson; editor, Susan Shanks; sound, Craig Lapp; Catherine Van der Donckt; music Judith Gruber-Stitzer; narrator, Christopher Plummer

TED ALLAN: MINSTREL BOY OF THE 20TH CENTURY, is a documentary that chronicles the life of writer, Ted Allan. All the events and people in his life are portrayed in his many plays. Origanally born in Montreal,. Ted became an ardent supporter of communist ideals and became a reporter for a communist newspaper in Montreal. His passion led him to Spain, where he worked for a brigade newspaper in the Spanish civil war. Allan returned to North America and settled in New York. He was amoung the long list of artists to be blacklisted in the 1950's, and so moved back to Canada and began to write for the CBC. When he was sensored by sponsors he decided to move to England, where he found broad acceptance of his work. <47mn 25s>

English

Libre

V1 2004-08-0059

No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Under copyright.

Copyright owner: Galafilm Productions (VI) Inc., 2002.~National Film Board of Canada, 2002

With written permission of Copyright Owner / Avec la permission écrite du détenteur des droits d'auteur