Title
|
Director
|
Cast
|
Genre
|
Notes
|
1950
|
Forbidden Journey |
Richard J. Jarvis |
Jan Rubeš,
Susan Douglas,
John Colicos |
Drama |
|
Lights of My City (Les Lumières de ma ville) |
Jean-Yves Bigras |
Huguette Oligny,
Monique Leyrac |
Drama |
[1]
|
Séraphin |
Paul Gury |
Hector Charland,
Nicole Germain,
Guy Provost |
Drama |
[2]
|
1951
|
Around Is Around & Now Is the Time |
Norman McLaren |
|
NFB experimental shorts |
An early experimentation in 3D by
Norman McLaren and
Evelyn Lambart; CFA - Special award
[3]
|
The Fight: Science against Cancer |
Morten Parker |
|
NFB animated short |
Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject);
Canadian Film Award - Special Award
[4]
|
Neighbours |
Norman McLaren |
Grant Munro,
Jean Paul Ladouceur |
NFB short made by
pixilation technique |
Academy Award
Short Subject (One-reel) nominee and
Best Documentary (Short Subject) winner;
AV Preservation Trust Masterwork
|
Newfoundland Scene |
F. R. Crawley |
Frank Peddie |
Documentary |
|
Royal Journey |
David Bairstow,
Gudrun Parker,
Roger Blais |
|
NFB documentary |
|
1952
|
The Bird Fancier (L'Homme aux oiseaux) |
Bernard Devlin,
Jean Palardy |
|
Drama |
|
Étienne Brûlé, gibier de potence |
Melburn Turner |
Paul Dupuis,
Jacques Auger,
Ginette Letondal |
Drama |
The film was shot in both French and English, and is credited as being the first Canadian feature in colour.
[5]
|
Little Aurore's Tragedy (La petite Aurore, l’enfant martyre) |
Jean-Yves Bigras |
Yvonne Laflamme,
Lucie Mitchell |
Drama |
[6]
|
The Nightingale and the Bells (Le Rossignol et les cloches) |
René Delacroix |
Gérard Barbeau,
Nicole Germain,
Jean Coutu,
Juliette Béliveau |
Drama |
|
Opera School |
Gudrun Parker |
Marguerite Gignac |
Docudrama |
|
The Romance of Transportation in Canada |
Colin Low |
|
NFB animated short |
The received a special
BAFTA Award, the
Short Film Palme d'Or for animation at
Cannes Film Festival, as well as an
Academy Award for Animated Short Film nomination.
|
1953
|
Farewell Oak Street |
Grant McLean |
Kate Reid,
Eric Clavering |
Docudrama |
Canadian Film Award – Theatrical Short
[7]
|
Herring Hunt |
Julian Biggs |
|
NFB short |
Academy Award nominee
[8]
|
A Mother's Heart (Cœur de maman) |
René Delacroix |
Jeanne Demons,
Paul Desmarteaux,
Jean-Paul Dugas,
Paul Guèvremont |
Drama |
|
Tit-Coq |
René Delacroix &
Gratien Gélinas |
Gratien Gélinas,
Clément Latour,
Monique Miller,
Denise Pelletier,
Paul Dupuis |
Drama based on the play by Gélinas |
|
1954
|
Corral |
Colin Low |
|
NFB short |
|
The Seasons |
Christopher Chapman |
|
Short documentary |
|
The Stratford Adventure |
Morten Parker |
Narrated by
John Drainie |
NFB documentary |
This was named Film of the Year at the
Canadian Film Awards and nominated for an
Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature
|
1955
|
Blinkity Blank |
Norman McLaren |
|
NFB animated short |
It received the
Short Film Palme d'Or at the
1955 Cannes Film Festival
|
1956
|
Gold |
Colin Low |
|
Documentary short |
|
Rythmetic |
Norman McLaren &
Evelyn Lambart |
|
NFB animated short |
|
Skidrow |
Allan King |
|
CBC documentary |
Canadian Film Awards – TV Information
[9]
|
Le Village enchanté |
Marcel Racicot &
Réal Racicot |
|
Animated |
Canada's first animated feature.
[10]
|
1957
|
A Chairy Tale |
Norman McLaren &
Claude Jutra |
Claude Jutra |
NFB short
Pixilation |
Nominated for an
Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Live Action)
|
City of Gold |
Colin Low &
Wolf Koenig |
|
Klondike Gold Rush;
Documentary |
Winner of the
Palme d'or for best short film at the
1957 Cannes Film Festival and nominated for an
Academy Award Best Short Subject, Live Action Subjects
|
Legend of the Raven |
Judith Crawley |
|
Documentary |
Canadian Film Awards – Arts and Experimental
[11]
|
Oedipus Rex |
Tyrone Guthrie |
Douglas Campbell,
Eleanor Stuart,
William Hutt,
Douglas Rain |
|
Classic drama from the original Stratford Festival stage version based on a translation by
W. B. Yeats
[12]
|
1958
|
Les brûlés |
Bernard Devlin |
Jean Lajeunesse,
J. Léo Gagnon,
Félix Leclerc |
Drama |
|
A Dangerous Age |
Sidney J. Furie |
Ben Piazza,
Anne Pearson,
Kate Reid,
Austin Willis,
Barbara Hamilton |
Drama |
|
Flaming Frontier |
Sam Newfield |
Bruce Bennett,
Jim Davis,
Cec Linder,
Larry Solway |
Western |
A low-budget B-Western shot in Los Angeles and Calgary and made with Canadian financing.
[13]
|
Ivy League Killers |
William Davidson |
Don Borisenko,
Don Francks,
Barbara Bricker |
Drama |
|
The Living Stone |
John Feeney |
|
NFB documentary |
Nominated for an
Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.
|
Money Minters |
Ted De Wit |
|
Documentary |
|
Now That April's Here |
William Davidson,
Norman Klenman |
Don Borisenko,
Judy Welch,
John Drainie,
Katherine Blake,
Tony Grey,
Walter Massey |
Drama |
[14]
|
The Quest |
Stanley Jackson |
Leo Ciceri, Dennis Stanway,
Norman Ettlinger |
Short drama |
|
Les Raquetteurs |
Michel Brault,
Gilles Groulx |
|
NFB documentary |
|
The Tall Country |
Osmond Borradaile |
|
Documentary |
|
Wolf Dog |
Sam Newfield |
Ben Piazza,
Austin Willis |
Drama |
|
1959
|
The Back-Breaking Leaf |
Terence Macartney-Filgate |
|
NFB documentary |
Part of the groundbreaking NFB
Candid Eye series shown on the
CBC-TV (1958–61);
Cannes Film Festival – Palme d'Or for Television Documentary
[15]
|
The Bloody Brood |
Julian Roffman |
Jack Betts,
Barbara Lord,
Peter Falk,
Robert Christie |
Drama |
|
A Cool Sound from Hell |
Sidney J. Furie |
Anthony Ray,
Carolyn D’Annibale,
Madeline Kronby |
Drama |
|
Glenn Gould: On/Off the Record |
Wolf Koenig,
Roman Kroitor |
|
NFB documentary |
Part of the
Candid Eye series
[16]
[17]
|