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Rural Families (3)

  • Alexis Tremblay: Habitant
    Alexis Tremblay: Habitant
    Jane Marsh 1943 37 min
    This short documentary illustrates rural French Canadian life in the early 1940s. The film follows Alexis Tremblay and his family through the busy autumn days as they bring in the harvest and help with bread baking and soap making. Winter sees the children revelling in outdoor sports while the women are busy with their weaving, and, with the coming of spring young and old alike repair to the fields once more to plough the earth in preparation for another season of varied crops. One of the first NFB films to be produced, directed, written and shot by women.
  • Holidays
    Holidays
    Blake James 1978 1 min
    This very short film from the Canada Vignettes series presents a montage of watercolor images depicting the work and occasional play of a farm family.
  • The Hutterites
    The Hutterites
    Colin Low 1964 27 min
    The followers of religious leader Jacob Hutter live in farm communities, devoutly holding to the rules their founder laid down four centuries ago. Through the kindness of a Hutterite colony in Alberta, this film, in black and white, was made inside the community and shows all aspects of the Hutterites' daily life.

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