Useful Cinema, Film Genres, and Screen Networks: The Story of Canadian Films Limited (1919–1920)
Year: 2011
Type: article
Abstract: Early in 1919, an entrepreneur named John D. Tennant organized a new fi lm production company in Montreal imaginatively named Canadian Films Limited. 1 Tennant's outfi t stayed in business for less than two years, during which it produced only a handful of rarely seen short fi lms, all of which are now lost.In short, it was not terribly important.Chance has it, however, that Canadian Films's papers (after having been randomly split into two collections for unknown reasons) have found their way into the archival collections of the Municipal Archives of Montreal and Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec, where they are now accessible to researchers.These two collections, made up of more than one thousand pages of correspondence, minutes, scripts, and invoices detailing Canadian Films's day-to-day operations, enable us to carry out a detailed case study shedding
Author: Louis Pelletier
Language: English
Topic: Cinema History and Criticism
Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2040229647