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Budge : the one true happiness of F.R. "Budge" Crawley /

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Material type: Film

FilmPublication details: [Canada] : Cine Metu, 2002.Description: 1 videodisc (78 min.) : sound, color 4 3/4 inContent type:

two-dimensional moving image

Media type:

video

Carrier type:

videodisc

Other title:

One true happiness of F.R. "Budge" Crawley [videorecording]
Speaking of movies [videorecording]
Title on container: Two Canadian film pioneers [videorecording]: Budge Crawley 1911-1987, Gordon Sparling 1900-1994

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

791.43/023/0922

LOC classification:

PN1998.3 .C73

Contents:

Budge Crawley -- Gordon Sparling.

Summary: Through original and archival footage, film clips, photographs, interviews with friends and foes, and a judicious measure of sheer speculation, Budge The One True Happiness of F.R. "Budge" Crawley probes the singular career of Budge Crawley from his early short films, said to capture "the very quintessence"of Canadian life, to his ultimately unsuccessful attempts to create a private, self-sustaining feature-film industry in Canada. It's the wild ride of a "breakthrough man", whose early films eclipsed the National Film Board on its own documentary turf, who initiated many Canadian film-industry firsts. It's the dispiriting and ultimately crushing succession of near misses and half successes that followed. In the end, it's the tragedy of man who is deaf to the news of his own defeat.Summary: "Speaking of movies" is a lyrical essay about the founding father of the Canadian theatrical film industry, Gordon Sparling. Long before the National Film Board was even an idea Sparling had already learned to master filmmaking in all its qirky ways. His 10-minute, "Canadian cameos" were virtually the only creative films reflecting the Canadian experience to the Canadian audiences during the 1930's.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Barcode
Video Recording	Carleton University, AVRC	SP456 - Collections Room	DVD-02544 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	16050191980

Disc also contains bonus second documentary: Speaking of Movies (24 min.) produced 1994.

Budge Crawley -- Gordon Sparling.

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