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Porpoise Oil and the Movie Makers and Amateur Cinema League

File contains Leighton's manuscript for an article about making his film "Porpoise Oil"; correspondence with the editors of Movie Makers; a copy of the Movie Makers issue in which his film was given an honorable mention; and a medallion awarded for his film being chosen for screening at the First International Photographic Exhibition.
Correspondence between Movie Makers magazine and Alexander Leighton

Correspondence between Movie Makers magazine and Alexander Leighton

File contains a series of letters between Arthur Gale and Alexander Leighton regarding his film "Porpoise Oil." The correspondence includes an announcement of its inclusion as an Honorable Mention by Movie Makers staff in the selection of the Ten Best Non-theatrical Films of 1937, as well as letters about an article Gale commissioned from Leighton about the making of his film. There is also correspondence from 1941 with James Moore at The Amateur Cinema League regarding Alexander Leighton's possible submission of his film about Navajo life, "Work for your Own," for a contest in the Special Class.

Explaining art

Item is a set of two videos that documents a multi-media performance. In the performance, Clive Robertson dresses as Joseph Beuys while reading the news.

Robertson, Clive, 1946-

Guysborough county

Item is a video created by Barry Burley in 1979. The video looks at the problems of the people of Guysborough County, Nova Scotia. Video was screened at Centre for Art Tapes in 1979.

Burley, Barry

Neal Livingston

Neal Livingston

Item is a poster for film screening of interim sketches of a year of posterity, budworks, the beach of the ditch and Aura-gone, held on May 10, 1979, at Eye Level Gallery.

Coming out strong

Item is a video work created by Dawna Proudman, Rozanne LePine, Tradewinds Film Co-op (Ottawa) in 1982. The Centre for Art Tapes screened the work as part of International Women's Week programming in 1982. The video documents the production of a play which is a socially conscious study of black immigrant women working in domestic situations. The director and producer teach these non-actors how to emote, react, etc. There are also brief clips of the actual play.

Proudman, Dawna

Cabaret up front

Item is a video work created in 1984 of a night performance at Dartmouth’s Treasure Cove Lounge. Camera by Liz MacDougall, sound David Barteaux and editing by Dan Lander. Documented with a single shot, not always the most ideal conditions, and roughlyedited, the overall look of the event is nonetheless quite good.

MacDougall, Liz

Video workshop

Item is a video work created by Alan Fox in 1984 at the Centre for Art Tapes. It is Part 2 of a video workshop showing many aspects of the studio.

Dub poets : Clifton Joseph

Item is a video of performance recorded by Centre for Art Tapes of Clifton Joseph member of the group Dub Poets, backed by members of Halifax thriving reggae and rasta community.

Joseph, Clifton

Halifax Independent Producers series (4 of 5)

Item consist of two video works created in 1984 : Tall Ships by Dan Lander; Drift by David Clark. Video was produced through the Centre for Art Tapes. Videos part of Halifax Independent Producers series (4 of 5). Tall Ships investigates the role of TV media on the way we perceive everyday occurrences. Drift is an experimental tape full of cliches.

Lander, Dan

Cabaret up front

Item is a video work created in 1984 of a night performance at Dartmouth’s Treasure Cove Lounge. Camera by Liz MacDougall, sound David Barteaux and editing by Dan Lander. Documented with a single shot, not always the most ideal conditions, and roughly edited, the overall look of the event is nonetheless quite good.

Lander, Dan

Dinner

Item is a video work created by Dean Brousseau in 1984. Dinner is an experimental documentary using a universal family event as its focus.Framed in snap-shot style, the video seems to arbitrarily “crop off” the participants, saving anonymity. This tape allows the viewer to concentrate on details of inpromptu etiquette and casual conversation around the dinner table, until, in the end, as with any family event, the camera is brought out to take pictures. On the cue “okay, smile!” the photographs taken are tossed one by one into the video frame, revealing at last the dinner participants in fuzzy Polaroids.

Brousseau, Dean

Growing together

Item is a video created by Regent’s Park Sole Mothers Association. The video documents a meeting of the Regent’s Park Sole Mothers Association, a group of largely low income women trying to create a sense of community spirit in their area of Toronto.

Videotex for Artists Halifax

Item consists of five video works : Debert Debunkers: By Invitation Only, 1984-85 by Liz MacDougall (2min., 10sec.);
John Turner Goes to Hollywood, April 27th, 1985, by Doug Barron (4 min., 8 sec.);
Monoltage, by Mark Clifford (6 min.,18 sec.);
Vernacular Designs, Laura MacDonald and Paula Fairfield, (3 min., 20 sec.);
Performance from the Arts and Culture Assembly, January 27th, 1985, Cathy Quinn (3 min., 31 sec.).

Inkpen, Alan

Liz MacDougall fonds

  • MS-3-53
  • Fonds
  • 1985-2014
Fonds contains a DVD and digital master of the documentary film, Debert Bunker : by invitation only.

MacDougall, Liz

Debert bunker : by invitation only / Liz MacDougall

Item is a 30-minute video produced and directed by Liz MacDougall while she was a member at the Centre for Art Tapes and a student at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.

In this video documentary, set outside a military base in Debert, Nova Scotia on 29 February 1984, five women's Peace groups converge to call attention to an Emergency Measures Organization (EMO) test drill coordinated with multiple NATO bunkers simulating a nuclear attack on North America. For this drill, selected officials (329 men and only 11 women) were invited into Debert’s underground bunker.

At its core, NATO’s goal during a nuclear attack was to maintain continuity of Government with no provision for the protection of the population they govern. Outside the bunker, members of five non-violent feminist activist groups point out, through street theatre, rituals, waving signs and shouting, the deadly irony of this NATO strategy to rehearse for nuclear war.

Inter-cut with scenes of the day-long protest are interviews with representatives from each group comically punctuated with news footage, photographs, live radio, and film clips explaining nuclear defense strategy. Throughout this day of action women debunk the NATO strategy which would have us believe we can survive nuclear war and ultimately demand an end to the nuclear threat and to militarism.

The documentary features interviews with John Bouris, Ginny Green, Kate McKenna, Donna Smyth, Deborah Westerberg, and CBC’s Peter Gzowski interviewing Dr. Mutandis (played by Pat Kipping) live on location at Debert.

Documentary video was originally produced on U-matic 3/4 inch tape. MacDougall digitally remastered the video in 2014.

Video compilation

Item consists of five video works : Debert Debunkers: By Invitation Only, 1984-85 by Liz MacDougall (2min., 10sec.); John Turner Goes to Hollywood, April 27th, 1985, by Doug Barron (4 min., 8 sec.); Monoltage, by Mark Clifford (6 min.,18 sec.); Vernacular Designs, Laura MacDonald and Paula Fairfield, (3 min., 20 sec.); Performance from the Arts and Culture Assembly, January 27th, 1985, Cathy Quinn (3 min., 31 sec.).

MacDougall, Liz

Debert bunker : by invitation only : [digital video] / Liz MacDougall

Debert bunker : by invitation only : [digital video] / Liz MacDougall

Item is a 30-minute video produced and directed by Liz MacDougall while she was a member at the Centre for Art Tapes and a student at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.

In this video documentary, set outside a military base in Debert, Nova Scotia on 29 February 1984, five women's Peace groups converge to call attention to an Emergency Measures Organization (EMO) test drill coordinated with multiple NATO bunkers simulating a nuclear attack on North America. For this drill, selected officials (329 men and only 11 women) were invited into Debert’s underground bunker.

At its core, NATO’s goal during a nuclear attack was to maintain continuity of Government with no provision for the protection of the population they govern. Outside the bunker, members of five non-violent feminist activist groups point out, through street theatre, rituals, waving signs and shouting, the deadly irony of this NATO strategy to rehearse for nuclear war.

Inter-cut with scenes of the day-long protest are interviews with representatives from each group comically punctuated with news footage, photographs, live radio, and film clips explaining nuclear defense strategy. Throughout this day of action women debunk the NATO strategy which would have us believe we can survive nuclear war and ultimately demand an end to the nuclear threat and to militarism.

The documentary features interviews with John Bouris, Ginny Green, Kate McKenna, Donna Smyth, Deborah Westerberg, and CBC’s Peter Gzowski interviewing Dr. Mutandis (played by Pat Kipping) live on location at Debert.

Documentary video was originally produced on U-matic 3/4 inch tape. MacDougall digitally remastered the video in 2014.

imX Communications Inc. fonds

  • MS-3-40
  • Fonds
  • 1985-2009

Fonds consists of records regarding imX’s corporate operations, productions, and other projects between 1985 and 2008. Corporate operations include imX Communications and its subsidiary companies: ImageX, Helix Animation, and North/Northeast Ventures. Film productions include theatrical full-length or short films, including documentaries. Television productions include made-for-television movies and documentaries, stand-alone productions, and series. Animated productions include feature length, television series, and shorts.

This fonds comprises ninety-four series which are arranged alphabetically by the name of the corporate entity, production, and project. Textual files contain a wide range of documents including scripts, call sheets and daily production reports, funding applications, cast and crew employment contracts, notes on location scouting, co-production agreements, marketing plans, budgets, music cue sheets, insurance coverage, and correspondence. Electronic mail (4.57 GB) downloaded from the e-mail server at imX corporate headquarters in Halifax contains 32,134 individual messages in 1,054 folders covering all aspects of corporate operations and business transactions. There are also 23,368 electronic files (15.6GB) that support the activities of imX, imageX, and Helix Animation documents in use between 1990 and 2008. Together with the text files, they represent a complete record of the activities of imX Communications and its affiliates.

Most corporate records have been retained in order to provide a full picture of what it is like to run a film production company in Nova Scotia. In addition, the records for three feature film productions, The Divine Ryans, Margaret’s Museum, and Love and Death on Long Island, have also been fully retained. 134 linear feet of textual material was not retained.

imX Communications.

The airlift is phase I

Item is a video work created by Liz MacDougall and Brenda Conroy. The videos contents examines the Southern Ethiopian famine caused by drought. The video documents the implementation of an emergency air lift supply program initiated by the World University Services of Canada. Through interviews with individuals we are presented with an overview of Canadian aid to Ethiopia. The tape demonstrates the effectiveness that concerned people can have through organization, and ends with a plea for more help.

MacDougall, Liz

Poetry in motion / film by Ron Mann

Poetry in motion / film by Ron Mann

Item is a poster for a film screening of "Poetry in Motion" directed by Ron Mann, held on March 25, 1986, at the National Film Board Theatre. The event was part of Audio by Artists Festival 1986.

Canada for Canadians

Item consists of a video recording which was constructed to combat Conservative government propaganda. The video pictures Canada as a strong and proud nation that features interviews with prominent Canadians who state their reservations with the Free Trade Policy, which the Mulroney government has attempted to denigrate all opposition to the policy with the United States.

Canadian Film Centre Productions

Out of the centre

Item consists of a video recording produced by Halifax Cable, directed by Cathy Busby, edited by Steve O'Keefe and cable produced by Jim McInnis. The video features interviews with Joe Blades, Ann Vayall, Steve O'Keefe, Chris Words and Chris Callaghan.

Busby, Cathy, 1958-

Fish or cut bait

Items consist of a video recording depicting a story of people fihgting for their livelihoods and a more sustaining way of life. Through interviews and archival footage, this video documents the historic struggle of Atlantic fishermen. The video was produced at the Centre for Art Tapes in 1989.

Burger, Tom

De pecheur a pecheur

Item consists of two video recordings, one in english "Fisherman to fisherman" and the other in french "De pecheur a pecheur". The video was descirbed by CFAT as: "Until 1976, with the overthrow of the Sandinista regime, the Nicaraguan government paid little attention to their in-shore fisheries. Now fishermen face the challenge of improving their methods and distribution structure. Through creative sharing of knowledge and equipment, Atlantic Canadian fishermen and OXFAM are helping Nicaraguan fishermen improve their industry. Fisherman to Fisherman is a touching and thorough document of the active professional and cultural exchange between two fishermen of these two nations."

Flanagan, Kathleen

Fisherman to fisherman

Item consists of a video recording, "Fisherman to fisherman". The video was descirbed by CFAT as: "Until 1976, with the overthrow of the Sandinista regime, the Nicaraguan government paid little attention to their in-shore fisheries. Now fishermen face the challenge of improving their methods and distribution structure. Through creative sharing of knowledge and equipment, Atlantic Canadian fishermen and OXFAM are helping Nicaraguan fishermen improve their industry. Fisherman to Fisherman is a touching and thorough document of the active professional and cultural exchange between two fishermen of these two nations."

Flanagan, Kathleen

Black women : we're still standing

Item consists of a collaborative video project produced by black Haligonian women for the Halifax-Jamaica Exchange Program. Through archival photographs, film footage and newspaper clippings the history of the black population of Nova Scotia is recounted. Contemporary poverty and discrimination are shown to have a long history beginning with slavery and broken promises.

Jamaica Women's Exchange Project

Gunning the economy

Item consists of a video recording by Kathleen Flanagan entitled "Gunning the Economy". The video offers a brief socio-economic analysis of the structure of arms production and consumption as it relates to Nova Scotia and underdeveloped nations.

The young company

Item consists of an audio recording by Trio Collectif et Cie, featuring on side A, "Cellules", "Tutti", "Par-Contre", and "Turbulences", and on side B, "Labyrinthe", "Lithanie III", and "Irisation". Trio Collectif et Cie features B. Donzel-Gargand, P. Ehrnrooth, and P. Moenne-Loccoz. The audiocassette was recorded live in concert on November 21, 1990 at The Church by D. Barteaux.

Halifax Dance Company

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