a postcard featuring a 1978 clipping of a letter to the editor that Winnipeg Film Group programmer Dave Barber wrote titled "Leave bacon alone."

A hand holding up the set of five postcards. The only one fully visible features the cover of the book, which has a picture of Dave Barber and the title Scrapbook: From the Archives of Dave Barber.

Montreal friends! The new set of 5 postcards is ready to go for the launch of SCRAPBOOK: FROM THE ARCHIVES OF DAVE BARBER on Mon, Apr 13 at @cinemathequeqc.bsky.social from 5-7pm.

The featured postcard is Dave's famed 1978 letter to the editor, "Leave bacon alone"!

🍸 5 à 7 du Winnipeg Film Group, le 13 avril à 17h dans notre café-bar! Lancement du livre "Scrapbook: From the Archives of Dave Barber", en présence des co-éditeurs Clint Enns et @aaburke.bsky.social ainsi que de Leslie Supnet, directrice du WFG!

The Shayne Dame

These Ruthless Men Had A Hollywood Starlet At Their Mercy!

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Covers, Carried Away, Painting, Paperback, Roger Owns, Steve Harragan

Designed to Be Red: Native American & Indigenous Poster Works | Poster House Native designers are not often shown as authors of their own ideas or images, controlling neither how and when their stories are depicted, nor through what channels and mediums. Instead…

Since travel to the US is out of the question these days, I do hope that there will be a catalogue of this exhibit at the Poster House. posterhouse.org/exhibition/d...

Cover of Svensk Bilprovning "Weak Points of Cars 1978" with the title set against a red background.

Maigret cover with photos by Chris Marker (director of Sans Soleil)

The cover of the CHMC’s 1957 Small House Designs booklet. It has a drawing of a small house of the period on the cover and the background is yellow.

I’ve been looking through this 1957 edition a lot and am always amazed by the simplicity and beauty of these designs. Such an incredible national postwar initiative.

I’ve found all the Safdie films super tedious, but giving Kevin O’Leary any screen time seems particularly reprehensible.

Contents | Canadian Journal of Film and Media Studies 34, 2 From award-winning amateur filmmakers to leading Canada’s busiest commercial film company by the mid-twentieth century, F.R. “Budge” Crawley and his wife Judith were responsible for an eclectic body of work. Yet tourism promotion films remained a ...

New issue of Canadian Journal of Film & Media Studies recently dropped. Issue is devoted to Crawley Films, Canada’s largest sponsored film company in mid-20th century. With essays by Charles R. Acland and Liz Czach (issue editors) + seven other brilliant scholars!
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Oh yeah, no problem! I will email it to you. Lots of NFB stuff, and I stray a little outside the NFB to show students what was being made commercially in Canada as well.

Alanis Obomsawin the activist In 1966 <em>Telescope</em> profiles an Abenaki singer and activist who brought a swimming pool to her Quebec reserve.

So good! A staple in my class on the NFB. I dunno if you want to stray beyond what Obomsawin has directed, but this profile of her the Ron Kelly made for the CBC in 1966 is really fantastic, and it is what brought her to the attention of the NFB: www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

A new adventure - Illuminations John Wyver writes: With Magic Rays of Light: The Early Years of Television in Britain still with the printers, and on course for publication by Bloomsbury on 8 January, my thoughts have turned to new ...

A new adventure

In which I touch on my thoughts about a follow-up to Magic Rays of Light, on the notion of "useful television", and on a pioneering application of television in an operating theatre at Guy's Hospital in 1949. Click here to read:

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This weekend was filled with all kinds of nonsense and bother, but I did manage to make this fake 70s educational film featuring my cats.

Joining the Bong squad

CBSA, PMO say they were not involved in MP announcing ban on Belfast band Kneecap OTTAWA - The Canada Border Services Agency and the Prime Minister's Office say they were not involved in an Ontario Liberal MP's announcement that members of the Belfast band Kneecap

Vincent Gasparro needs to resign. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/ontario/cbsa...

K-LONE: sorry i thought you were someone else Read Philip Sherburne’s review of the album.

I really like the new K-Lone LP: pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

‘The French people want to save us’: help pours in for glassmaker Duralex The brand, which evokes nostalgia and pride, hit its €5m fundraising target within hours and orders have soared

I want to read a history of Duralex. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Could a box of 8mm amateur film reels change Irish film history? Despite Flora Kerrigan's youth at the time of her filmmaking, her work demonstrates someone ahead of her time and at the forefront of a transformative period in Irish society

We love a good #amateurcinema story!

"Could a box of 8mm amateur film reels change Irish film history?” via @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social

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Here’s some very cool ephemera with extremely niche appeal: American Magazine insert advertising S. S. Van Dine’s THE SCARAB MURDER CASE

My book came out in 2019, so I am sure I will be fine. 😬

This is such a great film. Highly recommend.

Now available online!

A CENTURY IN 16MM: THE REMAKING OF CINEMA (eds. Gregory A. Waller + Haidee Wasson) from @oxfordacademic.bsky.social. Featuring 23 essays on diverse uses and applications of the small gauge format worldwide!

Available in print in early 2026.

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Defending the WAC: Our Rights, Their Wrongs: The WAC Campaign To Date by John Wyver Just about exactly a year ago, on 19 November 2024, I e-mailed a group of colleagues expressing concern about the Terms of Use researchers had to sign up to it secure access to the immeasurably rich…

The WAC campaign to date

More from me with details of progress (or lack thereof) in the campaign against the shutting down of access at the Written Archives Centre, and a summary of quite why this policy shift is, simply and straightforwardly, wrong.

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New Order released Movement on this day in 1981. Peter Saville's beautiful cover was based on Fortunato Depero's Futurismo design from 1932

This new Lynne Sachs picture sounds like my kind of film. festival.idfa.nl/en/film/50b2...

Yes, absolutely. But it must have been so hard to decide. Pomeroy's animation program at the 50th anniversary was the absolute best. Comprehensive survey of WFG animation!

Not sure why the IDFA in Amsterdam is showing a late 1970s NFB film on government bureaucracy, but I love that they are: festival.idfa.nl/en/compositi...

I, of course, meant boasting here. Stupid autocorrect.

New constellation of academic stars headed to U of T In a “big win for Canada,” the University of Toronto is further strengthening its academic ranks with three top researchers from U.S. universities whose work ranges from the search for new planets to ...

This is the stupidest and most embarrassing way to phrase this. Universities really just want to be sports owners or something now, boarding about signings and transfers. www.utoronto.ca/news/new-con...

Heart of the World: 50 years of the Winnipeg Film Group TIFF is a charitable cultural organization with a mission to transform the way people see the world, through film.

Toronto friends! Mark your calendars for this TIFF Lightbox screening on December 3rd of some magical films from the Winnipeg Film Group: tiff.net/events/heart...