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  1. Question, A (2004 Film)

    Director
    Soo-Won Lee
    Producer
    Soo-Won Lee
    Distribution
    No archive copy or distributor found (4/2007).

    Short. A reading of Hamlet’s ‘to be or not to be’ soliloquy by many individuals representing a broad cross-section of society.

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  2. Elizabeth Rex (2001 Audio)

    Distribution
    Out of distribution (11/2008)

    Audio recording of Timothy Findlay’s play. Queen Elizabeth condemns her lover, the Earl of Essex, to death for treason. On the eve of his death in 1601, a tormented Elizabeth seeks distraction and calls...

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  3. Lunatic, The Lover and the Poet, The (2000 Audio, Multimedia, Radio)

    Director
    Barbara Worthy
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sound recording out of distribution (1/2008)

    A recording of Brian Bedford’s one-man show exploring the emotion and psychology behind Shakespeare the man, as well as Shakespeare the playwright. The show was conceived as an actor’s celebration of...

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  4. Tragedy of King Lear, The (1999 Audio, Radio)

    aka: King Lear

    Director
    John Juliani
    Producer
    John Juliani
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Out of distribution (1/2008)

    A radio broadcast for CBC. Directed for stage by John Juliani and adapted by Michael Cook, with John Colicos as Lear.

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  5. Polygrahie, Le (1994 Film)

    aka: Polygraph Lie Detector, The

    Director
    Robert Lepage
    Producer
    Bruno Jobin
    Distribution
    No archive copy or distributor found (11/2007)

    Feature film based on the play by Lepage and Brassard and described by the author as a ‘metaphysical detective story’. The story revolves around the unsolved murder of a woman several years previously. A...

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  6. Working for Piece Work Wages (1987 Video)

    Director
    Phyliss Waught
    Subject
    History; Sociology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videoassette. Standard formats. col. 35 min.

    Most of the 10,000 workers in the Toronto garment industry are migrant women and most of these work for low piece work wages, accompanied by high production quotas and poor working conditions. These women...

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  7. Trees of Plenty (1986 Film, Video)

    Director
    Neil McKee
    Subject
    Agriculture; Development studies; Environmental science
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    In Nepal, the Central American rain forests of Costa Rica and in Nigeria, slash-and-burn farming methods are showing long-term harmful effects. Where trees have been cleared the top soil becomes eroded and...

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  8. Hecklers, The (1985 Film)

    Director
    Ian McLaren
    Producer
    Wolf Koenig; Ian McLaren
    Subject
    Art; History; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Animation film viewing Canada’s history as seen by political cartoonists. Includes the cartoons of more than fifty Canadian artists, commentary by contemporary cartoonists including Duncan Macpherson,...

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  9. Trees of Hope (1985 Film, Video)

    Director
    Neil McKee
    Subject
    Agriculture; Development studies; Environmental science
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Documents the rapid deforestation of Africa and analyses various solutions such as shifting to solar energy and improving traditional stores. Shot in Niger, Mali, Sengal and Nigeria, it shows how people are...

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  10. Basque Whalers of Labrador, The (1984 Film)

    Producer
    Paul Cadieux; Thomas Cadieux
    Subject
    Archaeology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    In Red Bay, Labrador, in 1978, a Basque whaling ship dating from the 16th century was discovered in water only dozens of feet deep. The discovery meant that Basque fisherman had whaled off the coasts of...

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