List of Canadian films of the 1940s
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This is a list of Canadian films which were released in the 1940s.
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
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| Churchill's Island | Stuart Legg | Narrated by Lorne Greene | National Film Board of Canada (NFB) short | Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject
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| Inside Fighting China | Stuart Legg | Narrated by Lorne Greene | NFB short | Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) nominee
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| Mail Early | Norman McLaren | NFB animated short | Norman McLaren's first film for the NFB[1] | |||
| Warclouds in the Pacific | Stuart Legg | Narrated by Lorne Greene | NFB short | Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) nominee
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| High over the Borders | Raymond Spottiswoode | NFB short | Academy Award for Best Documentary nominee
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| Alexis Tremblay, Habitant | Jane Marsh Beveridge | NFB documentary | Photographed by Judith Crawley[2] | |||
| At the Crossroads (À la croisée des chemins) | Jean-Marie Poitevin & Paul Guèvremont | Paul Guèvremont, Denise Pelletier | Drama | Narrated by René Lévesque, the future premier of Quebec.[3] | ||
| 1945 | ||||||
| Fridolinons | Roger Blais | Gratien Gélinas | Short | |||
| The Music Master (Le Père Chopin) | Fedor Ozep & Georges Freedland | Madeleine Ozeray, Marcel Chabrier, Pierre Durand | Drama | The first of several feature films produced during the 1940s and early 1950s by Renaissance Films of Montreal.[4] | ||
| 1947 | ||||||
| Bush Pilot | Sterling Campbell | Rochelle Hudson, Jack La Rue, Austin Willis, Frank Perry | Melodrama | |||
La Forteresse |
Fedor Ozep | English cast: Helmut Dantine, Mary Anderson, Paul Lukas, John Pratt French cast: Paul Dupuis, Nicole Germain, Jacques Auger, Henri Letondal |
Crime drama | Two films made simultaneously with each other, with different casts acting English and French versions of the same screenplay. | ||
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| Drug Addict | Robert Anderson | NFB short | Canadian Film Awards (CFA) - Documentary[5] | |||
| The Loon's Necklace | Budge Crawley |
Short | The film won the inaugural Canadian Film Award for Film of the Year; AV Preservation Trust Masterwork
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| Sins of the Fathers | Phil Rosen | Austin Willis, Joy Lafleur | Drama | [6] | ||
| Who Will Teach Your Child? | Stanley Jackson | NFB documentary | ||||
| 1949 | ||||||
| Begone Dull Care | Norman McLaren, Evelyn Lambart | Visual music presentation of Oscar Peterson | NFB animated short | At the 1st Berlin International Film Festival it won the Silver Medal (Culture Films and Documentaries) award; AV Preservation Trust Masterwork | ||
| The Grand Bill (Le Gros Bill) | Jean-Yves Bigras, René Delacroix | Ginette Letondal, Juliette Béliveau | Comedy/drama | [7] | ||
| A Man and His Sin (Un Homme et son péché) | Paul Gury | Hector Charland, Nicole Germain, Guy Provost | Drama | Canadian Film Award - Special Award[8]
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| Perpetual Movement (Mouvement perpétuel) | Claude Jutra | Canadian Film Award winner for Best Amateur Film in 1950
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| The Rising Tide | Jean Palardy | NFB documentary | It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject)
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| The Story of Dr. Louise (On ne triche pas la vie) | Paul Vandenberghe, René Delacroix | Madeleine Robinson, Jean Davy, Line Noro | Drama | First Canada-France co-production[9] | ||
| The Village Priest (Le Curé du village) | Richard Jarvis | Ovila Légaré, Lise Roy, Denis Drouin | Drama | |||
References
- ISBN 0-8020-2784-9.
- ISBN 0-8020-3512-4. Retrieved March 30, 2017.
- ISBN 0-8020-3512-4. Retrieved March 30, 2017.
- ISBN 0-19-540581-1.
- PMID 24012438.
- ^ "Variety (August 1948)". 1948.
- ^ "Jean-Yves Bigras - Cinema in Quebec". Archived from the original on 2011-07-06.
- ISBN 0-19-540581-1.
- ^ Docteur Louise http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/canadian-feature-film-database/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=94&DotsIdNumber= Retrieved August 5, 2015.
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