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Economic Development (9)

  • Canada the Land
    Canada the Land
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    Rex Tasker  &  Jean-Claude Labrecque 1971 7 min
    Filmed for the most part from a low-flying aircraft, this documentary short presents a breathtaking view of Canada from coast to coast. Showing the varied terrain, from craggy coast to towering glacier, the film illustrates Canada’s pristine wilderness as well as today's industrial and urban realities.

    Canada the Land was specially commissioned for the Canada Pavilion at the Osaka World Fair in 1970.
  • Dance
    Dance
    Lise-Hélène Larin 1979 2 min
    In this short film from the Canada Vignettes series, a map of Canada morphs into human forms that share the country's natural resources to the rhythm of a dance.
  • Canada's Awakening North
    Canada's Awakening North
    Ronald Dick 1951 32 min
    This short documentary from 1951 offers an appraisal of the social and economic development of the Mackenzie District, Northwest Territories. Get a look at the topography, resources, development, and settlement of this most-northerly Canadian frontier. Rather than depicting it as “harsh, stubborn, and silent” land, the film presents it as being filled with varied activity and opportunity.
  • The Films of Fogo Island
    The Films of Fogo Island
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    Derek Norman  &  Jeff Webb 2019 43 min
    In 1967, NFB and MUN made a series of 27 films on Fogo Island that pioneered using film as a tool in community economic development.
  • Here Is Canada
    Here Is Canada
    Tony Ianzelo 1972 28 min
    Viewers outside Canada, and Canadians themselves, here have the pleasure of looking at, understanding, and discovering the many facets of this vast land, presented in choice film footage that is at once informative, visually appealing, and absorbing.
  • The Land
    The Land
    Rex Tasker  &  Jean-Claude Labrecque 1969 8 min
    This film presents a breath-taking view of Canada from coast to coast. Besides showing the varied terrain, from craggy coast to towering glacier, the film illustrates something of the development of the land from its virgin state to today's intense and complex industrial exploitation. Filmed for the most part from a low-flying aircraft, there is evidence of space everywhere: in the caribou streaming across the snowy tundra, in the serried ranges of the Pacific mountains, in the distant horizons of lakes and seas, and in the spacious grain fields of the prairies. Equal to the grandiose natural scenes are the projects of Canadian industry, such as Quebec's great Manicouagan power dam, and the endless ribbon of the Trans-Canada Highway. This view of the land is surprising in its diversity.
  • Trans-Canada Express
    Trans-Canada Express
    Stanley Hawes 1944 9 min
    This short documentary from the Canada Carries On series celebrates the contribution of Canada’s railroads to the war effort. The film includes a sequence from Buster Keaton's 1926 silent comedy The General, as well as a re-enactment of Lord Strathcona driving the final spike into the Canadian Pacific Railway Line.
  • This Is Our Canada
    This Is Our Canada
    Stanley Jackson 1945 20 min
    A brief look at the history of Canada followed by a demonstration of the growth and strengths which Canada developed under the pressure of World War II. Included are glimpses of the resources, industries, people and lifestyles.
  • Trans-Canada Journey
    Trans-Canada Journey
    Graham Parker 1962 28 min
    A jetliner spans the miles, sheering through clouds to open sky and scenic vistas of the provinces below. Glimpses of town and country, of people of many ethnic origins, of a resourceful and industrious nation--impressions it would take days and weeks to gather at first hand--are brought to you in this vivid 1800-kilometer panorama.