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The Days Before Christmas

Name: The Days Before Christmas
Duration: 29 min

Terence Macartney-Filgate , Stanley Jackson et Wolf Koenig

1958 | 29 min

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This short documentary depicts Christmas time in Montreal. The milling crowds, department store Santas, Brink's messengers, kindergarten angels and boisterous nightclubs all combine to make a vivid portrait of the holidays.

What exactly goes on in a large Canadian city in the last few days before Christmas? Using this premise, an NFB film crew (featuring cameraman Michel Brault) was dispatched throughout Montreal just before Christmas 1957 to film what was happening, including the shopping frenzy and general merry making. The film would eventually be broadcast as part of the Candid Eye television series a year later and would be singled out as one of the best examples of direct cinema ever made at the NFB. The BBC would broadcast the film on Christmas Day 1959.
Albert Ohayon
De la sélection : The 1950s: Television and the Move to Montreal

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Générique

réalisateur

Terence Macartney-Filgate

Stanley Jackson

Wolf Koenig
producteur

Roman Kroitor

Wolf Koenig
producteur exécutif

Tom Daly
photographie

Michel Brault

Georges Dufaux
son

Jack Locke

George Croll

Kay Shannon
montage

Roman Kroitor

René Laporte

Wolf Koenig
montage sonore

Kathleen Shannon

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Does anyone else think the male chorister at the 14:30 mark might be Mayor Drapeau? I watch this every year for the nostalgia factor-- I was nine in 1958, and it's absolutely the way I remember everything. As farmer77 said, it's a real treasure.
None, 10 Déc 2022
I sure enjoyed spending a half hour in 1958. The dear lady at 17:08 looks so much like my Great Aunt Ferne, I wonder if she was in Montreal in December of 1958. Thanks for promoting a true Christmas spirit with this excellent film.
brenda.damen, 19 Déc 2019
Thanks for the great memories! I am the second choir boy on the left hand side. Lorne W. West was an amazing Organist and Choirmaster. In fact our choir was one of the best in Canada in 1958!
None, 9 Fév 2019
What a great glimpse into our past so well captured by the NFB! A national treasure!
farmer77, 20 Déc 2018
An excellent film to watch in anticipation of any holiday. However, I prefer the version without the commentary.
sixam, 17 Avr 2014