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Candid Eye

Candid Eye
Genre documentary
Directed by Terence Macartney-Filgate
Narrated by Stanley Jackson
Country of origin Canada
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 1
No. of episodes 7
Production
Executive producer(s) Tom Daly
Producer(s) Wolf Koenig
Roman Kroitor
Running time 30 minutes
Production company(s) National Film Board of Canada
Release
Original network CBC Television
Original release 26 October – 7 December 1958
Chronology
Followed by Documentary '60

Candid Eye is a Canadian documentary television series which aired on CBC Television in 1958.

This series aired various National Film Board of Canada (NFB) documentaries such as Blood and Fire (about the Salvation Army), The Back-Breaking Leaf (about southern Ontario tobacco farming), The Days Before Christmas (filmed in Montreal) and Police (about Toronto's police force). The series was filmed with technically advanced portable cameras. Footage relied on observation, with interviews kept to a minimum.

The executive producer of the series for the NFB was Tom Daly.

This half-hour series was broadcast on Sundays at 5:30 p.m. (Eastern) from 26 October to 7 December 1958.

Influenced by the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson, the Candid Eye series was one of the NFB's very first experiments in Cinéma vérité and has been credited as helping to inspire the cinema verite documentary movement.


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