"Exploits of a boy and girl scrumping fruit and annoying a gardener and an angler. Sickness is the reward for gluttony and the doctor dispenses castor oil to the miscreant." (EAFA Database)
A film documenting various excursions during a holiday in the Lake District of the UK.
A film about the introduction of trousers instead of skirts for women who work for the postal service. Jean Cameron was the postal service woman who requested the trousers, which became known as 'Camerons.'
"A film about Cadgwith, a small village in the UK. The film was started in 1939 but the intervention of war prevented completion." (EAFA Database)
"Documentary on smoke pollution and the effects it has on people's health." (EAFA Database)
"A black comedy giving a burlesque take on fascism and clearly aimed at Hitler's first six years in power. Dissatisfaction with Westminster's policies prompts a takeover by the Celts and the installation of a vacuous nonentity as dictator. The full panoply of Nazi regalia and methods are satirized before the dictator's fall." (EAFA Database)
"The true story of a French woman, Madame Baudhuin, who was presented to King George V in 1927 in recognition of her heroism in the Great War. Following a battle in Flanders on 26th August 1914, near Le Cateau, Mme. Baudhuin hid a British soldier, John Herbert Cruickshanks. Despite his discovery and their imprisonment they are saved by the rapid advance of British troops. (EAFA Database)
A 'Musical Direction' credit for Eric Freeman, suggests a specially-composed accompaniment, but no recordings were passed to the IAC (EAFA Database).
"Well, Pioneer Daze is all about building the first railroad between Winnipeg and Vancouver. It has no more regard for history than Cecil B. DeMille, but it is not nearly so grandiose about it, which is something to be thankful for." (Winnipeg Free Press)
"It was a prize winner produced by a group of employees of Brigden's Ltd., and gives their version of the building of the C.P.R." (Ottawa Journal)
Also referred to as "Pioneers Days, or Plates Wanted Thursday." (Ottawa Journal)
Total Pages: 299
Amateur Cinema