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'''''Home Movies: The Great Canadian Film Caper''''' was a [[Television in Canada|Canadian]] television documentary [[miniseries]] which aired on [[CBC Television]] in 1966.

==Premise==
John Gould hosted this series which concerned filmmaking in Canada.

==Scheduling==
The hour-long episodes were broadcast on Wednesdays at 9:30 p.m. from 17 August to 7 September 1966.

==Episodes==
# Documentaries were the subject of this first episode, featuring discussion and film excerpts from filmmakers Richard Ballentine (''The Most''), [[Donald Brittain]] (''[[Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. Leonard Cohen]]'') and Beryl Fox (''The Single Woman And The Double Standard'').
# The second episode concerned contemporary Canadian feature cinema, featuring excerpts of ''A tout prendre'' ([[Claude Jutra]]), ''[[The Luck of Ginger Coffey]]'' ([[Irvin Kershner]] director; [[F. R. Crawley|Crawley Films]] company), ''The Mask'' (Julian Roffman), ''[[Nobody Waved Good-bye]]'' ([[Don Owen (filmmaker)|Don Owen]]), ''Sweet Substitute'' ([[Larry Kent (filmmaker)|Larry Kent]]), ''La Vie heurese de Leopold Z'' ([[Gilles Carle]]) and ''Winter Kept Us Warm'' ([[David Secter]]).
# Animation was featured on the third programme with samples of the films "A Is For Architecture" (Gerald Budner, Robert Verrall), "Christmas Cracker" (various [[National Film Board of Canada|National Film Board]] artists) and "My Financial Career" ([[Grant Munro (filmmaker)|Grant Munro]], [[Gerald Potterton]]). Other animators featured include Carlos Marchiori, Louis de Niverville and Michael Snow.
# The final episode outlined the history of Canadian cinema from news footage of 1897 to early 20th-century productions to the National Film Board's [[World War II]] prograganda works. This was accompanied by excerpts from feature films ''Carry On Sergeant'' (1928), The Man From Glengarry and ''The Viking''.

==References==
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==External links==
* {{cite web | url=http://www.film.queensu.ca/CBC/Hob.html | first=Blaine | last=Allan | title=Home Movies: The Great Canadian Film Caper | publisher=[[Queen's University]] | year=1996 | accessdate=7 May 2010}}
* [http://archives.cbc.ca/programs/2564/ ''Home Movies: The Great Canadian Film Caper'' at CBC Digital Archives]

[[Category:CBC network shows]]
[[Category:1966 Canadian television series debuts]]
[[Category:1966 Canadian television series endings]]