Talk:National Film Board of Canada

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Contents 1 References 2 "Boards of Canada" reference 3 Call me thick but... 3.1 And the Oscar goes to... 4 Animation 5 Studio D 6 The vignettes controversy

[edit] References

This is a list of references that can be used to improve the article. Mindmatrix 5 July 2005 18:27 (UTC)

National Film Board - In vivo: a window on Diversity

Mindmatrix, you've done a great job on cleaning up the references/footnotes, I think. There's a valuable NFB page on the 65th anniversary actitivities that I think could be added as a reference to my new entry at the end of the history section, but I can't figure out how to do it in the same style. The link is: http://www.nfb.ca/webextension/65ans/?lg=en&PHPSESSID=06290cd05ba8139bc5468de2dc531d43 ThanksShawn in Montreal 19:26, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Boards of Canada" reference

This is a bit of trivia that has nothing to do with film-making and I question that it is really of any interest to anyone looking for information about the NFB. It simply clutters up the article. But I'm not so hard-core as to delete it myself.

YOU'RE WRONG. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.40.205.114 (talk) 18:06, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Call me thick but...

It has a french and an english section, with a linked history that is not devoided of specificities (italics mine). Can anyone tell me what the last part of this sentence means? --Dhodges 23:40, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

I would guess that a French-speaking person wrote that, but didn't translate properly from French. I'll remove it. Mindmatrix 01:11, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] And the Oscar goes to...

Worth mentioning the first Oscar for documentary went to an NFB production? Trekphiler08:01, 21 May 2007 (UTC) (OK, so I'm biased ...)

Well, I'm biased too but I think it merits a mention. I'm adding one. Shawn in Montreal 18:17, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Animation

Does anyone recall a weekly festival of international animation that was produced by the NFB? It was broadcast on PBS in the 1970s, at least in the Boston market, on WGBH of Boston. Dogru144 20:38, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Studio D

There's been a lot of activity on articles for Studio D productions. Perhaps this is a good time to expand the section on Studio D which was one of the NFB's most acclaimed and historically significant studios? Shawn in Montreal (talk) 14:30, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The vignettes controversy

I think that perhaps the Canada Vignettes subsection of the "Controversy" section is misplaced. There is nothing contained therein that is an example of a controversy. Only a statement that some appeared during commercial breaks, and that they were popular. Any ideas of where this would be better placed? Or perhaps someone out there actually knows of some controversy surrounding these. Physcher (talk) 15:59, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

I originally wrote the Vignettes section, but I didn't place it under "Controversy". This seems to be a side-effect of other edits that deleted various non-encyclopedic information. I've promoted the header so the section doesn't fall within the Controversy section. Mindmatrix 16:34, 6 March 2008 (UTC)