Camera Canada

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Camera Canada
Country of originCanada
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons2
Production
Executive producerThom Benson
Running time60 minutes
Original release
Network CBC Television
Release13 November 1961 (1961-11-13) 
14 January 1963 (1963-01-14)

Camera Canada was a Canadian documentary television series which aired on CBC Television from 1961 to 1963.

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Premise

This was an occasional series of documentaries concerning modern Canadian history, filmed by various producers. It was inspired by the results of various CBC documentaries broadcast in mid-1960.

Scheduling

The series was randomly scheduled approximately once per month between 13 November 1961 and 14 January 1963. Camera Canada episodes were generally hour-long productions which were frequently broadcast on Mondays, usually in place of the normal Festival time slot. [1]

Episodes

Controversy

"Ciao Maria", broadcast in January 1963, portrayed the lives of some selected Italian-Canadians. However, the portrayal of that community drew outrage from Toronto Italian community leaders such as broadcaster Johnny Lombardi and Toronto Roman Catholic priest Emmanuel Faraone. They complained that the documentary provided a distorted, low-brow view of Italians and failed to show the community's positive moral and cultural attributes. [4]

After the end of this series, the CBC produced documentaries in anticipation of the 1967 Canadian Centennial under the Canada 98 , Canada 99 and Canada 100 titles.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Rutherford, Paul (1990). When Television Was Young: Primetime Canada 1952-1967 . University of Toronto Press. p.  406. ISBN   0-8020-5830-2.
  2. "Today's TV Previews". The Gazette. Montreal. 11 December 1961. p. 14. Archived from the original on 10 November 2023. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
  3. Corcelli, John (May 2005). "Camera Canada". Canadian Communications Foundation. Archived from the original on 10 June 2011. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
  4. Rutherford, Paul (1990). When Television Was Young: Primetime Canada 1952-1967 . University of Toronto Press. pp.  421–422. ISBN   0-8020-5830-2.