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MillimeterThe Museum of Television & Radio Presents "O Canada! A Salute to Canadian Broadcasting Corporation"
Sep 19, 2002 12:00 PM
Screenings and radio listening series to feature drama, comedy, documentaries, public affairs and news programming, including works by David Cronenberg, Atom Egoyan, Ken Finkleman, Frédéric Back, Don McKellar, Rick Mercer, Kids in the Hall, Lorne Michaels, and more
New York and Los Angeles from October 18, 2002 to February 2, 2003 New York Opening Seminar October 17.
New York, NY and Los Angeles, CA-The Museum of Television & Radio will salute the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, now celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of television in Canada, with a fourteen-week screening series highlighting exceptional French and English radio and television programs created by or featuring many of Canada’s most important artists. O Canada! A Salute to Canadian Broadcasting Corporation will run from October 18, 2002 through February 2, 2003 in both New York and Los Angeles. An opening seminar, CBC/Radio-Canada: A Tradition of Excellence, will be held at the New York Museum on October 17. For complete schedule of screenings, visit the Museum’s website at www.mtr.org or call the Museum in New York at (212) 621-6800, or in Los Angeles at (310) 786-1000.
Some interesting facts you may not know about Canadian public broadcasting:
* Documentarian Beryl Fox's "Mills of the Gods: Viet Nam" was seminal in its time, in that it was the first to develop a documentary by shooting first, letting the subject and their stories dictate what gets shot, and weaving the story in the edit room after all material was gathered. It seems “normal” now, but prior to her precedent-setting style, documentaries were shot from scripts which were followed exactly to the word.
* African-American musicians flocked north in the 1950s and early 1960s because of limited television opportunities at home, including Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Nat “King” Cole, Marian Anderson, Sammy Davis, Jr. (in his first television special ever), and Sarah Vaughan, who performs—and holds hands with—white CBC host Wally Koster.
The Museum will present over forty programs exploring the diversity of CBC/Radio-Canada’s history. The series will feature a variety of programs from several different genres. Dramas include The Boys of St. Vincent, David Cronenberg's The Italian Machine, Atom Egoyan's In This Corner, and Ken Finkleman's breakthrough series The Newsroom. Seminal news programming such as This Hour Has Seven Days set precedents that are followed to this day. Variety programs dared to feature Sammy Davis, Jr., for the first time in his career, as well as Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn, and Gilles Vigneault.
Comedies such as Rick Mercer's Talking to AmericansThe Wayne and Shuster Hour, , and the recent Kids in the Hall documentary Same Guys, New Dresses demonstrate the much-emulated Canadian sense of humor in hilarious characterization. Teen shows such as Degrassi High still have cult followings twenty years after their first broadcast. French-language works such as Le Sel de la Semaine: Entrevue avec Jack Kerouac, and documentaries featuring Joan Baez, Leonard Cohen, and Serge Gainsbourg, as well as Beryl Fox's Mills of the Gods: Viet Nam, expose their subjects through insightful production. The Museum will also present a sneak preview of experimental filmmaker Guy Maddin's Dracula: Pages From a Virgin's Diary. (scheduled to open theatrically at Film Forum in Spring 2003.)
A wide range of Canadian radio programming will also be featured in the Radio Listening Rooms, under the themes "The CBC and 9/11"; "Science, Culture, and More"; "Arts and Entertainment": "Radio-Canada (French-Language Radio)"; and "News and Public Affairs."
The opening seminar in New York, CBC/Radio-Canada: A Tradition of Excellence, will bring together some of Canada's most distinguished producers, directors, writers, and performers for a discussion of their work, in addition to the Corporation's role in their development as artists. Panelists include Director Ken Finkleman; Daniel Gourd, Acting Executive Vice-President of Television, Radio-Canada; Slawko Klymkiw, Executive Director, Network Programming, CBC-TV; Peter Mansbridge, Chief Correspondent, CBC Television News; Harry Rasky, director, The Song of Leonard Cohen, Stratosphere, Homage to Chagall; and Mark Starowicz, Executive Producer, Network Programming, CBC Television, Canada: A People's History, and creator of the popular Radio call-out As It Happens.
About MT&R
The Museum of Television & Radio, with locations in New York and
Los Angeles, is a nonprofit organization founded by William S. Paley to
collect and preserve television and radio programs and advertisements
and to make them available to the public. Since opening in 1976, the
Museum has organized exhibitions, screening and listening series,
seminars, and education classes to showcase its collection of over
110,000 television and radio programs and advertisements. In 2001 the
Museum initiated a process to acquire Internet programming for the
collection. Programs in the Museum's permanent collection are selected
for their artistic, cultural, and historic significance. Further
information is available at www.mtr.org.
About CBC
CBC/Radio-Canada is Canada’s independent public broadcaster.
Since its inception in 1936, CBC/Radio-Canada has grown to become one
of Canada’s largest cultural institutions, providing Canadians
from coast to coast with traditional and new media services in French
and English, as well as in eight aboriginal languages in the North. It
is also the nation’s source for information, sports and
entertainment programs that are proudly and distinctly Canadian.
Further information is available at www.cbc.ca and www.radio-canada.ca.
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