Hidden Treasures from the Archives – A Letter from Roberto Rossellini
Read a hand written letter from Italian filmmaker Roberto Rossellini, found in the NFB archives. A truly valuable and exciting discovery!
Author : Marc St-Pierre
Women and Film: A Tribute to the Female Pioneers of the NFB
During the early 1940s, women occupied a marginal—if not non-existent—role in production at the National Film Board of Canada. At the time, the NFB was primarily engaged in producing propaganda...
70 Years of Animation, Part 2 – Norman McLaren
*This post is a translation from French. You can see the original post here. In Part One, I mentioned that while the NFB initially lacked an animation department, by signing...
70 Years of Animation, Part 1 – When Animation Marches Off to War
*This post is a translation from French. You can see the original post here. Since September 2011, the National Film Board of Canada and the Aéroports de Montréal are presenting...