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Candid Eye (1958)

October. 26,1958

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Candid Eye

Shot unscripted and unrehearsed, this NFB documentary series for television is a seminal offering in the history of doc filmmaking. Aired on CBC in 1958.

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Candid Eye

1958

Shot unscripted and unrehearsed, this NFB documentary series for television is a seminal offering in the history of doc filmmaking. Aired on CBC in 1958.

Seasons & Episode

Seasons 1 : 1958

14 Episode

Episode 1 - Blood and Fire

October. 26,1958

This short documentary by Terence Macartney-Filgate focuses on the men and women who dedicated their lives and service to the Salvation Army.

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Outcome

Margo's Got Money Troubles

Formula 1: Drive to Survive

For All Mankind

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters

Your Friends & Neighbors

CODA

The Gorge

Eternity

Episode 2 - A Foreign Language

November. 02,1958

This short documentary focuses on a Montreal public school where thousands of immigrant children learn English for the first time.

Episode 3 - Country Threshing

November. 09,1958

A day spent harvesting and threshing grain on a dairy farm, using methods already becoming old-fashioned in 1958.

Episode 4 - Pilgrimage

November. 16,1958

Chronicles the annual pilgrimage to St. Joseph's Oratory, a Montreal landmark where a humble faith-healing staff member of the church gained international renown for his apparent ability to perform miracles.

Episode 5 - Memory of Summer

November. 23,1958

An attempt to recapture the magic of childhood as the cameras follow children at play.

Episode 6 - Police

November. 30,1958

The misbehaving public performs for the camera in a half-hour miscellany of misdeeds. In a behind-the-scenes look at the hour-by-hour operation of a large metropolitan police force, this film presents a fair sampling of what keeps Toronto's police officers busy twenty-four hours a day.

Episode 7 - The Days Before Christmas

December. 07,1958

A look at how mid-20th century Montreal celebrated Christmas.

Episode 8 - Glenn Gould: Off the Record

December. 31,1969

Episode 9 - Glenn Gould: On the Record

December. 31,1969

Episode 10 - Emergency Ward

December. 31,1969

This 1959 documentary short is a frank portrait of the daily operations inside the Montreal General Hospital's emergency ward.

Episode 11 - The Back-Breaking Leaf

December. 31,1969

Here is a graphic picture of the tobacco harvest in southwestern Ontario. At the end of July, transient field workers move in for a brief bonanza when the plant is ripe. The tobacco harvesters call it "the back-breaking leaf."

Episode 12 - The End of the Line

December. 31,1969

A film about the railway transition from steam locomotives to diesel engines.

Episode 13 - The Cars in Your Life

December. 31,1969

From a used-car lot to the public highways, slow-motion and stylized photography provide a provocative, revealing look at a people's obsession with cars.

Episode 14 - Festival in Puerto Rico

December. 31,1969

Canadian contralto Maureen Forrester is to perform at the fourth annual Casals Festival (so named after cellist Pau Casals) in June, 1959 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, the performance specifically of "A Hymn for the Madonna" by Domenico Scarlatti, the manuscript for which has just been rediscovered, this to be only the second performance of such since this rediscovery.

Shot unscripted and unrehearsed, this NFB documentary series for television is a seminal offering in the history of doc filmmaking. Aired on CBC in 1958.