Film Record: Canada’s Garden Province

Still from Canada's Garden Province in Movie Makers, June 1942, 239.

Date produced: 1942

Filmmaker(s):

Harley H. Bixler

Languages:

English

Length:

800 ft

Format:

16mm

Colour:

Kodachrome

Sound Notes:

Silent

Awards/Recognition:

ACL Ten Best 1942 - Honorable Mention General Class

Description:

"Harley H. Bixler has made a competent travel study of Prince Edward Isle in his film, Canada's Garden Province. Rural and urban scenes, water and landscapes strike a balance in this thorough coverage of an enchanting scenic spot. One feature of Mr. Bixler's style is his ability to exclude irrelevant material and to include only those shots that are necessary to his descriptive narrative. Good judgment in the rotation of long and medium shots and closeups gives the movie interest and variety that lifts it above the usual run of travel pictures. Impeccable cinematography and a genuine appreciation of the atmosphere and mood of the surroundings are other distinguishing features." Movie Makers, Dec. 1942, 507.

Resources:

Discussed by Bixler in "Canada's Enchanted Isle" (Movie Makers, June 1942, 239, 261-263). The article describes "what [P.E.I.] offers to the visiting movie maker" (239).

This film was produced for the National Film Board of Canada.

The film was available in the ACL's Club Film Library.

Locations:

• Charlottetown, P.E.I. (Filming)
• Miminegash, P.E.I. (Filming)
• Murray Harbor, P.E.I. (Filming)
• Rustico, P.E.I. (Filming)
• Tignish, P.E.I. (Filming)

Subjects:

• Nature
•           Fishing
•           Bodies of Water
•      Canada

Genre:

• Travelogue

Form:

• Short

Tags:

Screenings:

• Screened by the Cine Group of the Schenectady Photographic Society in 1942: Schenectady, N.Y.
• Screened by the Movie Makers Club of Oklahoma City in 1942: Oklahoma City, OK
• Screened by the Amateur Motion Picture Society of Albany in 1943: Albany, N.Y.

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