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Shameless Propaganda - DVD/Propagande téméraire - DVD
Description
Some have called the documentary Canada’s national art form. If it is, the
foundations of that art were laid by the National Film Board of Canada in the
first six years of its existence, 1939–45, under the inspired vision and
watchful eye of John Grierson, its first Commissioner.
Released in the year of the NFB’s 75th birthday, Shameless
Propaganda is filmmaker Robert Lower’s take on the greatest and
most compelling propaganda effort in our history. Lower has watched the films
produced by the NFB up until 1945—all 500 of them—and distilled the essence of
their message to Canadians. Using only these films and still photos from that
era, Lower recreates the picture of Canada they gave us and looks in it for
the Canada we know today. What he finds is by turns enlightening,
entertaining, and unexpectedly disturbing.
2014, 71 min 57 s
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