Canada Vignettes: The Performer

Canada Vignettes: The Performer


                                Canada Vignettes: The Performer
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This short film from the Canada Vignettes series features tenor Roger Doucet singing the Canadian national anthem, O Canada, before a hockey game in the Montreal Forum.

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Canada Vignettes: The Performer , Norma Bailey, provided by the National Film Board of Canada

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Credits
  • director
    Norma Bailey
  • editing
    Norma Bailey
  • producer
    Dorothy Courtois
  • executive producer
    Robert Verrall
  • camera
    Wolf Koenig
    Barry Perles
    Don Virgo
  • sound
    Jean-Guy Normandin

  • rongor

    Thank you so much for this vignette. I have vivid memories of Roger in those days. Nobody sang our anthem the way he could, before, then, or since. He became an icon. I have not been back to my home country, Canada, for some 25 years. This brought a tear to my eye.

    rongor, 23 Apr 2013

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