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Donald Brittain fonds [multiple media]

Niveau hiérarchique :

Fonds

Date :

1916-1992.

Référence :

R5533-0-2-E, MG31-D222

Genre de documents :

Documents textuels, Documents photographiques, Objets (incluant les médailles et épinglettes), Documents sonores, Images en mouvement

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Archives / Collections et fonds

No d'identification :

105731

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Donald Brittain fonds
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Fonds comprend :

11 description(s) de niveau inférieur
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Date(s) :

1916-1992.

Lieu de création :

Canada

Étendue :

3.56 m of textual records.
519 photographs b&w and col.
15 audio cassettes (17 h, 41 min).
5 plaques metal plate on wood.
2 film reels.
1 videocassette (1 h, 33 min, 52 sec).

Langue du document :

anglais
Acquisition :

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Donald Brittain collection [graphic material]

Donald Brittain collection [graphic material]
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Fonds consists of the papers of Donald Brittain, including Personal Material; Correspondence; Financial Records; Writings by Brittain; Festivals, Awards and Personal Appearances; Project Files Series I; Project Files Series II; Scripts by Others. Photographic material depicts portraits of Canadian filmmaker Donald Brittain including a graduation portrait from Queen's University, ca. 1950, and Brittain receiving the 1968 "Etrog" award for best documentary film "Never a Backward Step"; portraits of Canadian Governors-General Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught (1916); Lord Devonshire (1917); Lord Byng of Vimy (1922); Viscount Willingdon (1930); King George VI and Queen Elizabeth during the Royal Tour (1939); miscellaneous views; autograph seekers at a train stop; four men seated around a restaurant table; photographs pertaining to the NFB film "Canadian Profile" (1956); Mr. and Mrs. A Mitchell on a Lloydminster cattle ranch; Manufacturers Life Building, Bloor Street, Toronto; passport photograph of Brittain, ca. 1970; travel views of Europe; photograph of documentary filmaker Donald Brittain and friend Professor Carl Turkstra, 1988; Donald Brittain on location with cameraman "Jeep Boyko" in Sicily during the filming of "Fields of Sacrifice", 1962. Also included in this fonds are plaques entitled "Victoria International Film Festival, 1964", "International Film & TV Festival of New York, 1973", "U.S. Industrial Film Festival, 1978", "26th Annual Columbus Film Festival, 1978", and "27th Annual Columbus Film Festival, 1979".

Fonds includes sound recordings of oral history interviews with Brittain by journalist Brian Nolan for a biography (not published). The interviews, recorded in 1981-1982, span 30 years of Brittain's career (1950s to 1980s) and provide detailed insights into his association with the National Film Board and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, his personal life and the creative gifts which earned him international recognition. Canada's social and cultural past is examined as Brittain describes the issues and prominent figures portrayed in his award-winning documentaries. Two unedited mute films are also part of this fonds. One depicts Donald Brittain waiting for the subway in Toronto, the other during a conversation. Also included is the NFB documentary film Donald Brittain filmmaker.

Provenance :

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Brittain, Donald, 1928-1989

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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

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Brittain, Donald, 1928-1989 : Donald Brittain, filmmaker, was born in Ottawa and educated at Queen's University, where he was editor of the Queen's Journal. Returning to Ottawa in 1951, he worked as a reporter and feature writer on the Ottawa Journal before joining the National Film Board in 1954 as a location manager and writer. In 1959 he wrote and directed A Day in the Life of Jonathan Mole, a film about prejudice, and in 1962 wrote and co-produced the thirteen part series Canada At War. Other films he wrote and produced were film portraits of Norman Bethune (Bethune 1964), Leonard Cohen (Ladies and Gentlemen: Mr. Leonard Cohen 1965) and Lord Thomson of Fleet (Never a Backward Step 1967), as well as writing and directing films on the Second World War, Fields of Sacrifice (1963) and Memorandum (1966).

After leaving the NFB in 1968, Brittain worked in Japan on Expo'70's IMAX show Tiger Child, having earlier written Labyrinth for Expo'67 in Montreal. He also worked on Earthwatch for the large screen at Expo'86 in Vancouver. As a freelancer, Brittain produced, for the NFB and CBC, some of his best known films, including Dreamland: A History of Early Canadian Movies 1895-1939 (1974), Volcano: An Inquiry Into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry (1976), Henry Ford's America (1976), Has Anybody Here Seen Canada (1978), The Champions (1978), Paperland - the Bureaucrat Observed (1979), Canada's Sweetheart: the Saga of Hal Banks (1985), and The King Chronicle (1988).

During his lifetime Brittain was acknowledged to be Canada's most important documentary filmmaker and he received scores of awards for his work, including Grand Prizes at Venice, Leipzig and San Francisco, an Emmy and four Academy Award nominations, as well as many ACTRA and Genie Awards. In 1987 he received an honorary degree from York University and in 1988 the Grierson Medal from the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers. He was made a member of the Order of Canada the year he died.

Brittain was married to Barbara Tuer in 1950; she died in 1953. In 1963 he married Brigitte Halbig and they had two children.

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Textual records: (Papier) The finding aid is a file list. MSS1844

Textual records: (Électronique) Finding aid. MSS1844
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000000420.pdf

Sound recordings and moving images: (Électronique) See MISACS for item level descriptions.

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Note générale :

Received in 1990 from Donald Brittain's widow, Brigitte Brittain of Westmount, Quebec.
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National Film Board of Canada

Motion picture authorship - Canada, [1941-1990] Marion André Czerniecki, [1969-1987]

Motion picture producers and directors - Canada, [1941-1990] Ron Blumer, [1969-1987]

Donald Brittain - Family, [1941-1990] Marion McCormick, [1946-1990]

Film festivals, [1946-1990] Christopher Wooten, [1946-1990]

Filmmakers, [1946-1990] Gerald Wexler, [1946-1990]

Politicians, [1946-1990] Nancy Cooper, [1946-1990]

Journalists, [1946-1990] Scott Young, [1946-1990]

Authors, [1946-1990] Georges Dufaux, [1946-1990]

Artists, [1946-1990] Warner Troyer, [1946-1990]

Motion pictures - Canada, 1954-1988 Peter Trueman, [1946-1990]

Alan Crofoot, [1946-1990]

Réshard Gool, [1946-1990]

Lawrence Hyde, [1946-1990]

Sydney Newman, [1946-1990]

Robert Anderson, [1946-1990]

Michael Pitfield, [1946-1990]

Paul ALmond, [1946-1990]

Grant McLean, [1946-1990]

Gerald Pratley, [1946-1990]

Ainsley Kerr, [1946-1990]

John Crosbie, [1946-1990]

Charlotte Whitton, [1946-1990]

Freda Garmaise, [1946-1990]

Ron Weyman, [1946-1990]

Knowlton Nash, [1946-1990]

Garry Lautens, [1946-1990]

Pierre Berton, [1946-1990]

Don Shebib, [1946-1990]

Peter Pearson, [1946-1990]

I. Norman Smith, [1946-1990]

Clyde Gilmour, [1946-1990]

William Stephenson, [1946-1990]

Rock Demers, [1946-1990]

Kirwan Cox, [1946-1990]

Joan Finnigan, [1946-1990]

Michael Spencer, [1946-1990]

William Weintraub, [1946-1990]

Brian Moore, [1946-1990]
Source :

Privé

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118-020016-0
121-020021-X
1657 (1990-07-11)
1990-0360 MISA
1990-493 DAP
1991-0055 MISA
1992-530 DAP
1993-0198 MISA
2336 (1993-06-25)
90-290
90-421
90-433
92-070

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MG31-D222
Pour réserver ou commander des documents

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Documents textuels

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Boîte d'instruments de recherche [FA 1844] 137

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Documents iconographiques (photo)

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Objet

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Médailles 14213--14217

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Documents sonores

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Images en mouvement (film)

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Images en mouvement (vidéo)

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Photographs: terms of use have yet to be determined. Various copyrights.
Plaques: terms of use have yet to be determined.
Sound recordings and moving images: Reproduction and use in any form requires the written permission of the copyright holders.

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