Guy Glover Movies

  • 1964
    David Thompson: The Great Mapmaker

    David Thompson: The Great Mapmaker

    David Thompson: The Great Mapmaker

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    This short film recreates the story of David Thompson – a man who, over the course of his lifetime, mapped a-million-and-a-half square miles of...

    David Thompson: The Great Mapmaker
  • 1965
    The Road to the West

    The Road to the West

    The Road to the West

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    When was Canada populated by Native Americans from the West? This film relates the discovery of the New World from the time of the Vikings, around...

    The Road to the West
  • 1959
    Lord Elgin: Voice of the People

    Lord Elgin: Voice of the People

    Lord Elgin: Voice of the People

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    This short film tells the story of Lord Elgin, a man’s whose faith in a nation’s right to self-determination was stronger than the threat...

    Lord Elgin: Voice of the People
  • 1977
    The Street

    The Street

    The Street

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    This film deals with a Jewish family in Montreal, Canada as they care for a dying grandmother and the young boy who is impatient to get the room he...

    The Street
  • 1952
    L'Homme aux oiseaux

    L'Homme aux oiseaux

    L'Homme aux oiseaux

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    Staged in old Québec City, this film is about a rebel against the time-clock, whose hobby was snaring birds but whose dream was to escape the...

    L'Homme aux oiseaux
  • 1975
    The Housewife

    The Housewife

    The Housewife

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    A study, in film animation, of a day in the life of a housewife, described without words, with a minimum of detail but with a perception all the more...

    The Housewife
  • 1959
    The Promised Land

    The Promised Land

    The Promised Land

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    Pioneers struggle to establish a town in the harsh unsettled wilderness of northern Quebec during the depression.

    The Promised Land
  • 1957
    It's a Crime

    It's a Crime

    It's a Crime

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    A suave safecracker offers his reflections on wintertime unemployment in Canada.

    It's a Crime
  • 1967
    Illegal Abortion

    Illegal Abortion

    Illegal Abortion

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    A dramatization that illustrates the situation of a young couple, particularly of the young woman, faced with an unwanted pregnancy and desiring an...

    Illegal Abortion
  • 1950
    The Fight: Science Against Cancer

    The Fight: Science Against Cancer

    The Fight: Science Against Cancer

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    This Oscar-nominated short explores the genesis of cancerous cells and the mid-20th century state of research into the fight against cancer. The film...

    The Fight: Science Against Cancer
  • 1961
    Joseph Howe: The Tribune of Nova Scotia

    Joseph Howe: The Tribune of Nova Scotia

    Joseph Howe: The Tribune of Nova Scotia

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    This short drama is a portrait of Nova Scotian journalist and politician Joseph Howe (1804-1873) and his battle for freedom of press. When, in 1835,...

    Joseph Howe: The Tribune of Nova Scotia
  • 1977
    Poets on Film No. 2

    Poets on Film No. 2

    Poets on Film No. 2

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    This short film brings together animated interpretations of 4 poems by great Canadian wordsmiths: “From the Hazel Bough” by Earle Birney,...

    Poets on Film No. 2
  • 1964
    Huit témoins

    Huit témoins

    Huit témoins

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    Filmed in 1964, this feature-length documentary by Jacques Godbout explores the world of delinquency through the stories of eight young people who...

    Huit témoins
  • 1951
    De père en fils

    De père en fils

    De père en fils

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    De père en fils
  • 1952
    O Canada

    O Canada

    O Canada

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    This very short stereoscopic film by Evelyn Lambart uses drawings to suggest movement across Canada’s ever-changing countryside.

    O Canada
  • 1953
    Herring Hunt

    Herring Hunt

    Herring Hunt

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    Herring Hunt is a 1953 French-English language documentary about the operations of a herring boat off the coast of British Columbia, directed by...

    Herring Hunt
  • 1952
    Canada's Atom Goes to Work

    Canada's Atom Goes to Work

    Canada's Atom Goes to Work

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    Canada, rich in uranium, is harnessing atomic science for peacetime living. This film provides a progress report on nuclear research conducted at the...

    Canada's Atom Goes to Work
  • 1962
    Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine

    Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine

    Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine

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    This short film offers a glimpse into the life of Louis Hippolyte Lafontaine, the Chief Justice who died prematurely but left French Canada a legacy...

    Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine
  • 1966
    The Drag

    The Drag

    The Drag

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    The film offers a comical look at dangers of addiction and the difficulties of quitting through the story of a chain smoker.

    The Drag
  • 1966
    The Quiet Racket

    The Quiet Racket

    The Quiet Racket

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    This short film tells the amusing tale of a man who feels the common urge to escape the city's noise for the weekend. Made without words, but with a...

    The Quiet Racket