Ron Alexander

Two ballet dancers perform a dance enhanced with surreal after-image visuals.

01 de out. de 1968

On Christmas Eve, snowplow driver Leo races to clear the streets of Montreal and complete his holiday shopping in time for midnight Mass. The featu...

19 de nov. de 1965

In the fall of 1964, just over a year before his death, Buster Keaton traveled to Canada to make The Railrodder, a short subject that now enjoys a ...

30 de out. de 1965

A teenage boy rebels against parental authority and must face a harsh reality when he tries to live on his own.

13 de ago. de 1964

This short film portrays the story of singer Paul Anka, who rose from obscurity to become the idol of millions of adolescent fans around the world....

25 de mai. de 1962

A boy's carved boat travels through the Canadian wilderness until it reaches the ocean.

01 de fev. de 1966

A Trip Down Memory Lane is a 1965 experimental collage film by Arthur Lipsett, created by editing together images and sound clips from over fifty y...

28 de ago. de 1966

04 de ago. de 1963

An engineer from Paris flies to Montreal, partly on business, partly in search of parents displaced by World War II, and partly because of the prev...

30 de jul. de 1966

A 16 year old girl recalls the last moments of her summer vacation, spent with friends in the Laurentians north of Montreal. She reminisces about t...

01 de jan. de 1964

Pioneers struggle to establish a town in the harsh unsettled wilderness of northern Quebec during the depression.

01 de jan. de 1959

A young Jesuit missionary reflects on his life and his faith while awaiting his execution at the hands of the Native Americans he came to convert.

20 de mai. de 1965

This documentary shows how an Inuit artist's drawings are transferred to stone, printed and sold. Kenojuak Ashevak became the first woman involved ...

01 de jan. de 1964

A woman's peculiar religious convictions lead her on a self-destructive path.

24 de set. de 1970

The epic story of the opening of the Canadian West and the drought that brought the Depression in the thirties. This is the saga of a family who le...

25 de abr. de 1962

The story of two young women who go to the city to work in a dress factory, and who share a room to ease their expenses and their loneliness. The f...

01 de jan. de 1966

An indecisive young woman with an abnormal devotion to her father can't decide on which of her two boyfriends she should end her relationship with.

21 de jun. de 1967

Toronto is regarded as the third largest jazz centre in North America. This film features a cross-section of jazz bands of that city: the Lenny Bre...

01 de jan. de 1963

12 de ago. de 1967

This short documentary records the celebration and ritual surrounding a snowshoe competition in Sherbrooke in the late 1950s. The film marked the b...

01 de jan. de 1958

This short film is a series of vignettes of life in Saint-Henri, a Montreal working-class district, on the first day of school. From dawn to midnig...

05 de set. de 1962

06 de mar. de 1969

A neurotic man relates his unsuccessful attempt to open a simple savings account at a bank.

01 de out. de 1962

This short documentary (the second of two parts) follows Glenn Gould to New York City. There, we see the renowned Canadian concert pianist kidding ...

01 de jan. de 1959

This feature documentary is a profile of Canadian press tycoon Roy Thomson, whose single-minded attention to business brought him riches, power, an...

01 de jan. de 1966

Based on a short story by Sinclair Ross, this short film recalls rural life on the Prairies in the 1930s. In the film a farmer's young son, sent to...

01 de jan. de 1963

Ex-fisherman Billy Crane in Brampton, Ontario, at an industrial job with regular hours. Here he tells why he left Fogo Island and says he has no re...

Three politically incorrect lesbians talk about being lesbian.

01 de jan. de 1986

This short documentary features Canadian contralto Maureen Forrester as she sings at the Festival Casals, a musical event founded by the great Span...

01 de jan. de 1961

A classic NFB documentary about the Golden Gloves boxing tournament, the Canadian amateur's hope for success in the boxing world. This Gilles Groul...

01 de jan. de 1961

They come in high-powered convertibles, with cameras and curiosity, to look at French Canada and French-Canadians. Their usual objective is Québec ...

31 de mar. de 1962

On Canada's Pacific coast this film finds a young Haida artist, Robert Davidson, shaping miniature totems from argillite, a jet-like stone. The fil...

01 de jan. de 1964

A young, unmarried teenager finds herself pregnant. The film mirrors the state of her mind as she worries about the possible positive and negative ...

01 de jan. de 1964

A slow-motion study by Norman McLaren of the pas-de-deux adagio, one of the most exacting and difficult dances of classical ballet. A ballet origin...

29 de jul. de 1972

A young man of the Kainai Nation (Blood tribe) shows us contemporary life of people as he attends a Sun Dance ceremony with the tribe.

31 de dez. de 1960

A greedy little blue jay carries away whatever his beak can grasp. Berries, birds' eggs (nests and all), and even the sun in the sky go into his se...

01 de jan. de 1969

In this short film, a young man, a girl and a dog attempt to fly with wings more symbolic than practical.

01 de jan. de 1966

A jetliner spans the miles, sheering through clouds to open sky and scenic vistas of the provinces below. Glimpses of town and country, of people o...

31 de jan. de 1963

A documentary detailing the live ABC broadcasting of a 1975 college football game from the Los Angeles Memorial Colosseum, between the Ohio State B...

01 de mai. de 1976

A dizzying view of Manhattan in the 1960s, the tallest town in the world, and the men who work cloud-high to keep it growing. They are the Mohawk I...

01 de jan. de 1965

The old spirit of the Yukon returns as Dawson City prepares for its Discovery Day celebrations. Witness a round of nostalgic scenes: a main street ...

01 de jan. de 1961

A man sets a ping-pong ball into motion and it becomes fruitful and multiplies.

29 de jul. de 1965

A light, humorous look at the motor car and the great North American itch for a place on the road. From the comparative peace of Honest Joe's used-...

01 de jan. de 1960

This 1959 documentary short is a frank portrait of the daily operations inside the Montreal General Hospital’s emergency ward.

01 de jan. de 1959

This 1964 documentary returns to the battlefields where over 100,000 Canadian soldiers lost their lives in the First and Second World Wars. The fil...

02 de jan. de 1964

This film looks at the world of children with hearing loss and the importance of early diagnosis. With its straightforward, rigorous cinematic styl...

01 de jan. de 1962

Canadian concert pianist Glenn Gould enjoys a respite at his lakeside cottage. It is an aspect of Gould previously known only to the collie pacing ...

01 de jan. de 1959

This quirky little short by Gilles Carle was filmed on the pierced rock that stands near Quebec’s Gaspé peninsula. It is perhaps the most photograp...

01 de jan. de 1964

A film for teachers, describing the use of the "discovery method" in teaching. All it needs is a teacher whose encouragement is natural and unobtru...

01 de jan. de 1967

01 de jan. de 1959

Troubled youth Eddie McGeer, on a whim, steals a motorcycle and takes it on a short joy ride with his girlfriend Marie before they ditch it when th...

01 de jan. de 1965

In this experimental animated short, Ryan Larkin (Walking) creates a series of figures who move across the screen and disappear into a hole. Eventu...

01 de jan. de 1966

Household effects and farm implements under the hammer. Here is the auctioneer's cajoling patter, the jostling crowd, pungent observations from one...

01 de jan. de 1964

On your marks. Follow cyclists from 13 countries as they cover 2.400 km of Gaspé countryside in 12 days-a course longer than those of Italy, Belgiu...

31 de dez. de 1965

A documentary about the self-taught painter William Kurelek, told through his paintings. There are scenes of village life in the Ukraine and the ea...

01 de jan. de 1967

The unusual short story of a Canadian Judoka Doug Rogers, who developed, in Japan, a talent for Judo that led him into competition for the world ch...

01 de jan. de 1965

This short drama is a portrait of Quebec lawyer and politician Louis-Joseph Papineau (1786-1871). A proud, defiant man, skillful in parliamentary d...

01 de jan. de 1961

Fluxes is Arthur Lipsett's view of the human condition and the mixed-up planet where humans are found. As in his other films (Very Nice, Very Nice;...

01 de jan. de 1968

This short film tells the amusing tale of a man who feels the common urge to escape the city's noise for the weekend. Made without words, but with ...

01 de jan. de 1966

This short documentary profiles Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day parade in Montreal in 1959. The annual parade takes place every June 24th in memory of Sain...

01 de jan. de 1958

This feature documentary about education explores the mid-century state of learning in the classrooms of North America. New approaches to learning ...

01 de jan. de 1966

This short, silent film captures a Sunday afternoon at a community skating rink. Iconic Quebec director Gilles Carle has the camera follow toddlers...

25 de mai. de 1963

A childhood fantasy where dreams carry a boy far to adventure. He arrives in Canada on an ocean liner and is, in turn, a hunter of polar bear, a co...

01 de jan. de 1967

This short film is a humorous look at the tourist industry in Canada. In tongue-in-cheek fashion, it points out the importance of good public relat...

01 de jan. de 1959

This documentary is an informal portrait of the great modern composer Igor Stravinsky. Proudly American, though still very much an Old World figure...

01 de jan. de 1966

A young Japanese-Canadian businessman, now established in Montréal, recalls the time during World War II when the Japanese-Canadian community of Ca...

01 de jan. de 1966

This film observes, in a Montréal public school, the teaching of English to immigrant children. To thousands of children arriving in Canada from Gr...

01 de jan. de 1958

This short documentary shows Canada's top swimmers in training for the 1964 Olympic Games. Under the critical eye of coach Ed Healy, they practice ...

01 de jan. de 1964

This short documentary offers a portrait of life on a cattle ranch, for both its human and animal inhabitants. Featuring sprightly music by folk si...

01 de mai. de 1961