Open AccessConversations with Gerald Pratley (3)
Author(s) -
Allan King
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
kinema
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2562-5764
pISSN - 1192-6252
DOI - 10.15353/kinema.vi.992
Subject(s) - mediocrity principle , enthusiasm , sister , art history , conversation , corporation , adventure , media studies , performance art , art , history , law , political science , sociology , philosophy , theology , physics , communication , astrobiology
FIVE FILMMAKERS IN CONVERSATION WITH GERALD PRATLEY (Part 3) The NFB's 60th Anniversary has been celebrated leaving behind little of its contemporary production to raise the spirits and create enthusiasm among the Board's many long-time admirers and supporters. Founded in 1939 by the accomplished John Grierson, it has now, like its crown sister, The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), drifted far from where it was once anchored and away from what it was as a public service, lost on a sea of indifference and mediocrity. Kinema asked four filmmakers long associated with the NFB, documentary film, and CBC, to look back over what has been taking place during past years leading to today's disappointing and empty era. They are Gerald Graham, Grant McLean, Terence Macartney-Filgate, Donald Haig and Allan King. They talked to our associate editor and film historian, Gerald Pratley. In this issue, we publish the last of the...