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Crafty Cow

Series consists of records documenting the administrative, creative, financial, legal, production, and publicity and marketing activities of this project. The project was a potential children's animated series starring a bovine detective, introduced in Imagex's The Real Howard Spitz. It was a major initiative for imX. This series contains agreements, an assignment of copyright, biographies, consent documents, correspondence, financial development applications, notes, a one-sheet, research, scripts, schedules, sample images, video and audio recordings, and a website proposal.

AquaNet

Series consists of records created and collected by Richard Apostle in the course of his aquaculture research conducted under the auspices of AquaNet: Network of Centres of Excellence in Aquaculture, which was an NSERC-funded grant of 10.9 million dollars for which Richard Apostle was a co-investigator through the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. The two projects on which he worked were “The Institutional and Social Structure of Aquaculture: A Comparative Study,” with Gene Barrett and John Phyne, and “The Social Construction of Environmental Risk and Benefits: Risk to Whom? Benefits to Whom?”, with Ralph Matthews, Susan Elliot, Brian Elliot and John Phyne.

Record types in this series include grant-related correspondence, applications, budgets and reports; research correspondence; presentations and papers in manuscript and published form; and secondary research materials.

Public relations material

Series contains material relating to the various exhibitions and events sponsored by the Khyber Arts Society. Included in the series are posters, pamphlets and programs.

Stargazing

Series consists of records documenting the administrative, creative, financial, and legal activities of this project. This potential feature film was set in rural Alberta in the 1960s. It was about a mysterious woman who bears a striking resemblance to Marilyn Monroe who arrives in town and then disappears mere days before Monroe is found dead in California. The script was written by Conni Massing and Geoff LeBoutillier. This series contains agreements, applications, biographies, a budget, cast lists, correspondence, director's notes, a one-sheet, plans, schedules, scripts, a slate package, and a treatment.

Posters

Series contains publicity posters from several Theatre Arts Guild productions.

Clippings regarding the LGBT community

Series consists of clippings collected by Ross Boutilier concerning the LGBT community in the news. Subjects covered include same-sex marriage, homosexuality and religion, HIV/AIDS, Canadian politics, LGBT legal challenges, local arts news, and international celebrity news.

Awards and distinctions

Series contains honours and distinctions awarded to Janet Conners in recognition of her involvement in the Royal Commission of Inquiry on the Blood System in Canada [the Krever Inquiry], and her subsequent advocacy work for persons living with HIV/AIDS. Materials include honorary degrees, awards, fellowships, and other distinctions, as well as associated programs, invitations, and forms.

Celtic Mass for the Sea

Series consists of records documenting the administrative, creative, financial, legal, and publicity and marketing activities of this project. The project was a potential Canada/Scotland co-production that was to be an hour-long television program based on the Scottish premier of Celtic Mass for the Sea, written by Scott MacMillan and Jennyfer Brickenden. This series contains agreements, applications, correspondence, proposals, a production schedule and budget, research, press releases, and press clippings. Also included is an audio recording of Celtic Mass for the Sea.

Margaret's Museum

Series consists of records documenting the administrative, creative, financial, legal, production, and publicity and marketing activities of this project. This feature film, based on the short story by Sheldon Currie entitled "The Glace Bay Miners' Museum," focuses on coal miners and their families in 1940s Cape Breton. The 114-minute drama was co-produced by Imagex, directed by Mort Ransen, written by Sheldon Currie, and starred Helena Bonham Carter, Clive Russell, and Kate Nelligan. It was nominated for eleven Genies in 1995, winning the awards for Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Screenplay, and Best Supporting Actress. The film was also awarded best picture awards at the annual San Sebastian Festival in Spain, the Vancouver International Film Festival, and the Atlantic Film Festival. All records were kept as an example of the imX production process. The series contains accounting and payroll records, agreements, applications, biographies, budgets, call sheets, correspondence, cost reports, a credit and contact list, crew lists, a dialogue list, location scout stills, location sketches, music cue sheets, press kits, press releases, production documents, production stills, posters, production reports, research notes, schedules, scripts, a supplier contact list, a synopsis, and video recordings.

The Poetry Show

Series contains audio reels from the CKDU radio program, Poetry Show. This half-hour program aired Wednesday nights at 8:30 pm and featured poets from Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Three Storey, Ocean View

Series contains records that document the development and production of Three Storey, Ocean View, a play by Catherine Banks. First produced in 2000 by Mulgrave Road Theatre in Guysborough, Nova Scotia, the play was a silver medalist in du Maurier National Play Competition and was published in 2003 by the Playwrights' Guild of Canada.

Administrative records of the Board of Governors of the Technical University of Nova Scotia

Series consists of the records of the Board of Governors of NSTC and TUNS, as well as DalTech, in the following sub-series: Board membership files, 1968-1998; Board of Governors meeting minutes, 1907-1998; Committees' records, 1961-1998; and Executive Committee records, 1947-1998. Files from the appointment and retirement of presidents, vice-presidents and chancellors, as well as other 'appointment' issues are also in this series. Any files with personnel information have restricted access. Series also contains Board correspondence and memoranda, handbooks, policies, terms of reference, etc. Board Membership files include appointment orders-in-council, membership files for individual board members, and lists of members and their terms. A complete set of the minutes for Board of Governors Meetings is available in both bound volumes and microfilm. The final meetings of the DalTech Board were also recorded on audiocassette for Dalhousie Board posterity. There is an index to some of the meeting minutes. The Executive Committee's records include minutes of meetings (bound volumes and microfilm), with an index, as well as some memoranda. The following Committees have records in the Committees sub-series: Building and Grounds Committee; Planning Committee; Logo Committee; Audit Committee; Administrative Committee; Finance Committee; Investment Committee; Personnel Committee; Policy and Planning Committee; Committee on University Affairs; Campus Development Committee; Research Policy Committee; and the Public Relations Committee.

Technical University of Nova Scotia. Board of Governors.

Posters

Series contains posters for concerts by the Halifax Camerata Singers, including those performed with various guest artists and ensembles, including several collaborations with Symphony Nova Scotia. Most of the concerts took place in Halifax, Nova Scotia, with some elsewhere in Nova Scotia, and in Prince Edward Island and Alberta.

Christmas Story

Series consists of records documenting the preliminary legal activities of this potential project. This series includes a co-production agreement.

Doc McLelland

Series consists of records documenting the creative activities of this project. The project was a potential television series about a doctor in rural Cape Breton. This series contains a series outline and input.

Atlantic Film Festival

  • UA-47, Box 2
  • Series
  • September 21, 1992 - September 25, 1992

    • Part of CKDU Radio fonds

Series contains a 5 part feature on the 1992 Atlantic Film Festival.

Living After Diagnosis

Series contains audio reels from the CKDU radio 88.1 program Living After Diagnosis. This program is a multi-part series on living with AIDS, which aired once a month on CKDU radio.

Leather community materials

Series contains materials collected by Al Stewart as part of his involvement with the Halifax-based TightRope leather brotherhood, which was established in the early 1990s, incorporated in 1997, and disbanded in 2007. Series also contains materials related to the Mr. Atlantic Canada Leather [MACLeather] organization, which operated between 1999-2010, and the leather community more broadly. Materials include TightRope administrative and financial records, correspondence, and promotional materials; event cards, flyers, posters, programs, and certificates of participation for TightRope events, MACLeather contests, and leather events across Canada and the United States; photographs of TightRope meet-ups, MACLeather contests, and other leather community events; web print-outs; issues of the Phalia newsletter published by Spearhead leather and denim club in Toronto; erotic gear catalogues; and one copy of the 2002 Men of Pumpjack calendar.

Posters

Series consists of a posters related to the Nova Scotia Mass Choir and various performances, including the annual Martin Luther King concert, album releases, and other performances.

Video recordings

Series contains video recordings of the Nova Scotia Mass Choir from 1992 to 2010.

Recordings include rehearsals for the annual Martin Luther King concert, performances, trips, awards shows, and two series of the Hallelujah television program.

Novanet Members

Series includes files that document the process of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College and the Community College of Cape Breton joining the Novanet consortium.

Posters

Series contains duplicate posters from fonds in the Nova Scotia LGBT Seniors Archive. Materials in series include posters for the Halifax Fetish Ball, Mr. Atlantic Canada Leather [M.A.C. Leather] contests, other LGBT events in Halifax and Montreal, LGBT films, and posters and acetate negatives of posters for events held at Rumours, a bar owned and operated by the Gay and Lesbian Association of Nova Scotia [GALA].

Susan Sherwin's research grants records

Series comprises Susan Sherwin's grant application records, including the National Network on Environments and Women's Health, for which Sherwin was principal investigator. Other applications include bioethics, feminism, philosophy, and Canadian health care research proposals.

New World Stories

Series contains audio reels from the CKDU radio 88.1 program New World Stories. This program features author readings and interviews, and includes David McGimpsey, Mark Leger, Michael Kaufman, and Michael Ondaatje among others. It is hosted by Anne Graham.

Telling it Like it is

Series contains audio reels from the CKDU radio 88.1 program Telling it Like it is. This program was organized by the anti-poverty group, Humans Against Resource Deprivation (HARD), based in metro Halifax.

Publications and clippings regarding the Krever Inquiry, HIV/AIDS, and Conners' activism

Series contains publications and news clippings regarding Janet Conners' involvement in the Royal Commission of Inquiry on the Blood System in Canada [the Krever inquiry], related legal cases, and Conners' subsequent advocacy work for persons living with HIV/AIDS. Series also contains clippings related to Randy Conners' death and advocacy work, HIV/AIDS symptoms and treatments, other blood conditions and diseases, blood treatment facilities, and other notable persons living with HIV/AIDS.

Sound recordings

Series contains sound recordings related to the Nova Scotia Mass Choir from 1992 to 2007.

Recordings include various performances, interviews, studio recordings, and radio broadcasts.

The Masked Genre

Series contains audio reels from the CKDU radio 88.1 program The Masked Genre. This program is a multi-part series focusing on comics, and many of the episodes include references to local Wilkie’s Wonderful World of Comics (located in Lunenburg and Halifax) at beginning.

Shakespeare by the Sea

This series contains records relating to Shakespeare by the Sea. The types of records included here are electronic files, videocassettes, audio cassetes, a report and a script.

Cadillac Girls

Series consists of records documenting the administrative, creative, financial, legal, production, and publicity and marketing activities of this project. This feature film, set in Cape Breton and filmed in various Nova Scotia locations, tells the story of a Maritime woman and her daughter coming home from British Columbia and offers the 1990's response to what happens after Maritimers “go down the road". The 96-minute drama was co-produced by Imagex, directed by Nicholas Kendall, and written by Peter Behrens. The cast starred Jennifer Dale, Mia Kirshner, and Gregory Harrison. The film also featured Adam Beach early in his career. This series contains agreements, biographies, a budget, copyright documents, correspondence, a cost summary, film posters, licenses, negatives, a press kit, production stills, publicity stills, a release copy, schedules, screening copies, scripts and transcripts, the trailer, and video recordings.

Great Butterfly Hunt

Series consists of records documenting the administrative, creative, financial, and legal activities of this project. Also known as Brendan's Dream and The Dream Warrior, this potential children's feature film was written by T.H. Hatte and centres on the Monarch butterfly migration that occurs in Mexico every year. This series contains agreements, applications, a biography, correspondence, research, script notes and a script, and a synopsis and treatment.

imX

Series consists of records documenting the administrative, creative, financial, legal, production, and publicity and marketing activities of this company. All corporate files relating to imX have been retained, including the electronic records of corporate administration and operations of imX copied from hard drives. Electronic materials include textual, graphic, and audio-visual materials in various digital formats. Some of these materials are digital copies of materials in project series that were maintained on drives. Some materials in this series exist in project files printed on paper or copied to disc or tape. This series contains accounting and budget information, agreements, annual financial statements, biographies, business plans, business and legal arrangements and agreements, corporate logos, conference records, correspondence, demos, distribution arrangements and agreements, educational mentorship information, film development information, playback questionnaires, pre-development scripts, promotional materials for various film festivals, press releases, promotional stills, and documentation on web site development and design.

Real Howard Spitz, The/Writer's Block

Series consists of records documenting the administrative, creative, financial, legal, production, and publicity and marketing activities of this project. An Imagex co-production with the UK’s Metrodome, this children's feature film is about a down-and-out crime writer who hits it big with his "Crafty Cow" series about a bovine detective. Filmed in and around Halifax and in Los Angeles, the 97-minute children's film was directed by Vadim Jean, written by Jurgen Wolff, and starred Kelsey Grammer, Amanda Donohoe, Genevieve Tessier, and Joseph Rutten. This series contains ACTRA work reports, agreements, applications, audit records, biographical information, budget and other financial information, call sheets, cast and crew lists, correspondence, a credit list, daily production reports, film festival publicity materials, a film inventory, immigration records, insurance documents, location stills, negatives, notes, production stills, publicity materials and prints, schedules, scripts and script revisions, set drawings, shipping information, a synopsis, and video recordings.

Undercurrent Recordings

Series contains materials relating to the production and distribution of recordings by Upstream’s recording label, Undercurrent Recordings. Records include budgets, audio recordings, promotional materials, and minutes of meetings regarding production. Most of the records pertain to the Upstream Ensemble's first CD, "Open Waters," with the exception of two proposals and correspondence concerning other CD projects, the Steve Tittle Project and the Mark Duggan Project.

Community, State and Market on the North Atlantic Rim

Series comprises created and collected by Richard Apostle in the course of his study of the crisis in the fishing industries in Northern Norway and Atlantic Canada, which was funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and resulted in the publication of Richard Apostle et al., Community, State and Market on the North Atlantic Rim: Challenges to Modernity in the Fisheries. Record types include grant applications, reports and correspondence; publishing and editorial correspondence; secondary research materials; taped research interviews; manuscripts; and a copy of the published book.

Trial at Fortitude Bay

Series consists of records documenting the administrative, creative, financial, legal, production, and publicity and marketing activities of this project. The project is an award-winning television drama set in a contemporary Inuit community about a trial of a young Inuit man accused of rape. It focuses on the conflicting cultures and senses of justice. The 92-minute film was shot in Iqaluit, Baffin Island, and Winnipeg. It was co-produced by imX, written by Keith Ross Leckie, directed by Vic Sarin, and starred Henry Czerny and Lolita Davidovich. This series contains agreements, articles of incorporation, correspondence, financial statements, press releases, publicity stills, reports, scripts, the storyboard, and video recordings.

From these Roots

Series contains audio reels from the CKDU radio program, From these Roots. The series was part of CKDU's public affairs program The Evening Affair. From these Roots includes features and interviews with African-Canadians, primarily from Nova Scotia.

Programs developed and administered by the Women in Media Foundation

Series contains material relating to the promotion, development, and administration of the programs and workshops that were run by the Women in Media Foundation. Materials include completed evaluation forms from programs, curriculum material, script and teaching material, camp essays, and final reports. Series also contains applications, campers lists, release forms, and promotional materials.

The following is a list of programs that Women in Media Foundation was involved in: Girl's TV Camp (later named Girls TV and New Media Camp), Women's Technical Internship, Diversity Workshop, Girl's Enterprise workshop, the Travelling Girls Documentary workshop, lesson plans and teaching materials for teachers, WTNdowment scholarship, CyberSafe program, Girl's Mini-Media workshop, Train the Trainer workshop, and Media Literacy workshop.

Programming materials may also be inter-filed within other series.

Pierre Boulez : The Rite of Spring

Series consists of records documenting the creative, financial, legal, and production activities of this project. This potential program for CBC television documenting Pierre Boulez at the Scotia Festival of Music in 1991 performing the Rite of Spring was never broadcast because rights for the music were not procured. The series contains research documents, a budget, a production agreement, and video recordings.
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