Radford Crawley
Frank Radford Crawley was a filmmaker born in Ottawa in 1911. As head of his company, Crawley Films, he made hundreds of films over a 40 years career. His vitality and enthusiasm, combined with his enterprising nature, allowed him to turn his hobby of filmmaking into a career. The film Île d'Orléans (1938), which he shot on his honeymoon, won the Hiram Percy Maxim Award for best amateur film in 1939. The war outbreak created an urgent need for instructional films and John Grierson hired Crawley's company to shoot many of them. After the war, Crawley Films survived by making films for the government and corporate clients. The Loon's Necklace (1948) won the film of the year award at the first Canadian Film Awards in 1949. Newfoundland Scene (1950), The Power Within (1953), The Legend of the Raven (1958) and The Entertainers (1967) also won numerous awards.
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Quebec - Path of Conquest
_Quebec - Path of Conquest_ is a short propaganda film from 1942, made in order to encourage French Canadians - traditionally rather reluctant - to support compulsory military service. The film depicts the mobilization of French Canadians, who voluntarily enlisted and sent tanks, planes, ammunition, guns and food on cargo ships to the war fronts of Russia, England and North Africa.
Quebec - Path of Conquest
_Quebec - Path of Conquest_ is a short propaganda film from 1942, made in order to encourage French Canadians - traditionally rather reluctant - to support compulsory military service. The film depicts the mobilization of French Canadians, who voluntarily enlisted and sent tanks, planes, ammunition, guns and food on cargo ships to the war fronts of Russia, England and North Africa.
