Document is a Canadian documentary television series that aired once a month on CBC Television from 1962 to 1969. This innovative series featured various documentaries, employing both direct cinema and traditional documentary techniques.[1][2] The series, appearing on occasional random days and times, was given a monthly schedule in 1965 as a mid-year replacement for This Hour Has Seven Days.
| Document | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Documentary |
| Country of origin | Canada |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 7 |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Patrick Watson Douglas Leiterman Richard Nielsen (1968-1969) |
| Original release | |
| Network | CBC Television |
| Release | September 16, 1962 – May 27, 1969 |
The Toronto Telegram's Chester Bloom expressed criticism of bias over the broadcast of "The Servant of All" episode of September 16, 1962. Bloom's politics sided with the Progressive Conservative party.[3]
Production
editThe first executive producers for this series were Patrick Watson and Douglas Leiterman, whose intention was to air a documentary approximately each month to provide a detailed treatment of a subject. By the second season, Leiterman became executive producer on This Hour Has Seven Days and focused his attention on that series; Watson became a host of Document at that time.[4] Richard Nielsen became executive producer during the final episodes.
Episodes
edit| No. | Title [1] | Producers | Original air date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "The Servant of All" | Beryl Fox and Douglas Leiterman | September 16, 1962 | |
|
Selecting a Prime Minister | ||||
| 2 | "Joshua, a Nigerian Portrait" | Allan King | March 6, 1963 | |
| 3 | "The Pull to the South" | TBA | March 21, 1963 | |
|
Should Canada become "The 51st State"? | ||||
| 4 | "The Balance of Terror" | Beryl Fox and Douglas Leiterman | July 28, 1963 | |
| 5 | "The Peacemakers" | Allan King | November 26, 1963 | |
| 6 | "The Quiet Takeover" | Douglas Leiterman | December 15, 1963 | |
|
computers | ||||
| 7 | "The Chief" | Beryl Fox and Douglas Leiterman | March 25, 1964 (rebroadcast January 31, 1965) | |
| 8 | "Bjorn's Inferno" | Allan King | April 20, 1964 | |
|
poet Bjorn Halverson | ||||
| 9 | "The Image Makers" | TBA | May 20, 1964 | |
|
American and Canadian public relations | ||||
| 10 | "The Single Woman and the Double Standard" | Beryl Fox | December 13, 1964 | |
| 11 | "Richard and Lillian: Two Portraits" | TBA | December 27, 1964 | |
| 12 | "Strike: Man Against Computers" | Larry Zolf | March 28, 1965 | |
| 13 | "At the Moment of Impact" | Jim Carney | November 7, 1965 | |
| 14 | "The Mills of the Gods: Viet Nam" | Beryl Fox | December 5, 1965 | |
| 15 | "Joan Baez" | TBA | December 26, 1965 | |
| 16 | "A Sense of Captivity" | Ross McLean | January 23, 1966 | |
| 17 | "The Story of Sandy" | TBA | February 27, 1966 | |
| 18 | "How to Go Out of Your Mind" | TBA | April 24, 1966 | |
|
the Millbrook experiments involving LSD | ||||
| 19 | "No Balm in Gilead" | TBA | September 22, 1968 | |
| 20 | "Resurrection City" | Robert Hoyt (director) | November 17, 1968 | |
| 21 | "Occupation" | TBA | February 23, 1969 | |
| 22 | "Violence" | James Shaw and John David Hamilton | April 13, 1969 | |
| 23 | "If I Don't Agree, Must I Go Away?" | Peter Pearson | May 27, 1969 | |
References
edit- ^ a b Morris, Peter (1984). The Film Companion. Toronto: Irwin Publishing. pp. 88–89. ISBN 0-7725-1505-0.
- ^ Corcelli, John (April 2002). "Document". Canadian Communications Foundation. Retrieved May 7, 2010.
- ^ Rutherford, Paul (1990). When Television Was Young: Primetime Canada 1952-1967. University of Toronto Press. p. 428. ISBN 0-8020-5830-2.
- ^ Rutherford, Paul (1990). When Television Was Young: Primetime Canada 1952-1967. University of Toronto Press. pp. 408–409. ISBN 0-8020-5830-2.