Month of Sundays, A
Aired Sunday afternoons from January 25 to February 15, 1981.
This was a series of program of short films, each program being on a particular theme. It was hosted by Harry Brown. Since the show was 3 hours, several movies could be screened in one sitting. For instance, the first episode had a selection of four movies about war: Bravery In The Field, a drama set in World War I; For King And Country, a documentary about Canada in World War II from the series The Days Before Yesterday; The Last Corvette, about HMCS Sackville, a forty-year-old escort ship; and Six War Years, based on Barry Broadfoot's oral history, originally produced for the CBC series, Performance
The second broadcast concerned women writers in Canada. It included a documentary drama, Lucy Maud Montgomery: The Road To Green Gables; a film about the production of the musical, Anne Of Green Gables; and The Garden And The Cage, a profile of two authors, Gabrielle Roy and Marie-Claire Blais. The third program featured Flight Of The Snows, about the migration of the Canadian snow goose; Man Aloft, a history of aviation, and Whiskey Whiskey Papa, a film about interesting pilots, all on a theme exploring various aspects of flight. The last program focused on the country’s relationship with winter, and included live action from Ottawa's Winterlude festival and the film The Dawson Patrol, about the journey of a NWMP patrol from Fort MacPherson to Dawson City in the winter of 1910.
Written by John Corcelli - November, 2005
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