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Billinge Scar No. 5

Date produced: 1925

Filmmaker(s):

Birtwistle

Description:

"Scenes at Billinge Scar (near Blackburn), the Birtwistle family home, including some rather dark interior shots" (NWFA Online Database).


Blackout on Maple Street

Date produced: 1970

Filmmaker(s):

Charles E. Phillips

Description:

"Film is about what happens when a two-minute power failure causes a blackout. Cameras caught before and after scenes in four houses, titled 'Daughter's Date,' 'The Ladder,' 'Cat and Dog,' and 'Women.' " Archives of Ontario.


Bless This House

Date produced: 1950

Filmmaker(s):

Grace Lindner

Description:

"A brief film designed as a trailer for home use rarely possesses the quality of general audience appeal. Grace Lindner may be justly proud of having achieved this elusive element in Bless This House. The film is a hymn of love, an ode in praise of home, the family, mutual understanding and other ingredients of the good life. That the theme is an emotional one is admitted. That it might have become painfully saccharine is granted. That it did not is due to the sensitive and restrained manner in which the filmer has presented her familiar scenes. Fred Waring's recording of the title song furnished the theme and is used as an integral part of the film." Movie Makers, Dec. 1950, 466.


Bohemian Baloney

Date produced: 1944

Filmmaker(s):

Werner Henze

Description:

"Werner Henze has shown in Bohemian Baloney that artists can make fun of themselves and their profession. An artist and his wife had planned to have a quiet evening at the movies when a telephone call warns of a visit by a wealthy prospective buyer of pictures and her meek husband. How the young couple suddenly transform their own characters and their tasteful and immaculate living room into a scene of "arty" surroundings is gaily depicted with just the right amount of farce. The compositions and lighting are excellent and there are gay, unexpected twists throughout, particularly when a self portrait of the artist comes to life." Movie Makers, Dec. 1944, 495.


Boys and the Bees

Date produced: 1950

Filmmaker(s):

Charles Woodley

Description:

"Home movie made by Charles Devenish Woodley, showing the beekeeping operation at his home." Library and Archives Canada.


Boys At the CNE or Where’s Lorne

Date produced: 1951

Filmmaker(s):

Charles Woodley

Description:

"Film about three little boys, played by Doug, Bill and Lorne Woodley, the sons of Charles Devenish Woodley, visiting the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto on a sunny day." Library and Archives Canada.


Broadstairs and Margate Items

Date produced: 1938

Filmmaker(s):

Enid Briggs

Description:

"This fascinating film from the early 1930s is all the more remarkable because it was made by a woman filmmaker, Enid Briggs. First we meet the Mullett family in Hythe before seeing early footage of the Romney. Hythe and Dymchurch Railway. Then we see family and friends on the pier at Deal, on a steamer to Margate and at play on the sands at Joss Bay. This is followed by horse-riding scenes around Broadstairs, on quiet streets still unaffected by cars. We also get a glimpse of a coastal tram" (BFI Player online).


Building the Archway at Greenbank

Date produced: 1920

Filmmaker(s):

Thomas William Harris

Description:

"Family members look on as mill men build an archway in the garden at Greenbank, Keswick. General outdoor scenes with flowerbeds and a swing." (NWFA Online Database)


Canoe Country

Date produced: 1952

Filmmaker(s):

Charles Woodley

Description:

"Film about canoeing, featuring members of the Charles Devenish Woodley family." Library and Archives Canada.


Catnap

Date produced: 1960

Filmmaker(s):

Jack Pashkovsky

Description:

"Mother is tired and catnaps while junior is at play. Soon junior takes his teddy bear and goes exploring the park, highway, and railroad. There are automobiles and trains to spark anxious moments. When Mother awakens, the young man has returned from his venture. A dream, perhaps" PSA Journal, Nov. 1960, 41.


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