Candid Eye

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

Candid Eye
Genredocumentary
Directed byTerence Macartney-Filgate
Narrated byStanley Jackson
Country of originCanada
Original language(s)English
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes7
Production
Executive producer(s)Tom Daly
Producer(s)Wolf Koenig
Roman Kroitor
Running time30 minutes
Production company(s)National Film Board of Canada
Release
Original networkCBC Television
Original release26 October –
7 December 1958
Chronology
Followed byDocumentary '60

Production

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.[1]

The executive producer of the series for the NFB was Tom Daly.[2]

Scheduling

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

Legacy

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.[3]

References
  1. Corcelli, John (February 2005). "Candid Eye". Canadian Communications Foundation. Retrieved 6 September 2018.
  2. Brownstein, Bill (5 October 2011). "Looking back on the work of Tom Daly". Vancouver Sun. Retrieved 6 October 2011.
  3. Aitken, Ian (27 October 2005). Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film. Routledge. p. 168. ISBN 978-1579584450.


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