Sunshine and Eclipse (1927-1934)

Sunshine and Eclipse (1927-1934)

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This short documentary is an overview of the events that marked Canada between 1927 and 1934. It shows a confident and prosperous Canada expanding in all directions until the stock market crash of 1929. Despite it all, Canada maintains an optimistic outlook. The period is witness to bargains by mail order, extremes in women's fashions, political seesawing, hockey broadcasts by a very youthful Foster Hewitt, and the word "quintuplets" in every headline.

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Sunshine and Eclipse (1927-1934), , provided by the National Film Board of Canada

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Credits
  • producer
    William Weintraub
  • script
    William Weintraub
  • executive producer
    Nicholas Balla
  • sound
    Michael McKennirey
    Karl Duplessis
    Jean-Pierre Joutel
  • editing
    Margaret Ellis
    George Kaczender
    Nicholas Balla
  • re-recording
    George Croll
    Ted Haley
  • music
    Eldon Rathburn
    Joan Edward
    Malca Gillson

  • happyfeet13

    in a Socials class 40 years ago, I sat dumbfounded @10:48 - there was my great-great grandfather T. Mower Martin painting LIVE! My kids saw the same film, I hope one day my grandkids will too.

    happyfeet13, 25 Aug 2021
  • crazybitch123

    ugh it was aight

    crazybitch123, 30 Oct 2013
  • DanDaMan97x

    I've watched worse...

    DanDaMan97x, 21 May 2013
  • canadianmonster

    the bennet buggy

    canadianmonster, 30 Sep 2012
  • preggo420

    i like this video... i guess.... had to watch it for a school thing

    preggo420, 17 Apr 2012

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