Talking to Outstanding Survivors of Canada's Wartime Navy.

For the past three years, and with a real sense of urgency, the producers have continued to expand this most important project - to capture the "Sight and Sound" of some of Canada's outstanding naval personalities.

A tribute long overdue, these videos present not merely a record of war experiences but also allows the personalities of these persons to shine through - so that future generations will see who they were - what they did - and what it was like to have served and lived those days!

Every production is liberally laced with wartime movie clips as well as the subjects' own personal photos and memorabillia of the time. Each video runs for between 30 and 60 minutes and is dedicated to one notable individual.

WHAT AND WHY OF SEASONED SAILORS

The object is to present a permanent visual record of Canada's naval participation in World War II showing some still surviving naval veterans together with their account of the experiences they endured.

The series shows who these individuals were...what it was that they did, and how they look and sound today. The concept is not new but now, video tape in lieu of motion picture film, provides an practicable means to achieve this.

Each interview includes photos, movies, letters, sounds & musical artifacts of the period - almost as in the mind's eye - to help convey the viewer back to that time.

Who are most interested? These productions are popular with Veterans Associations, Museums, Cadet Corps, Public Libraries, Naval Reserves, High School Libraries and University history faculties. They are always sought by persons in families connected with the sea and with Canada's maritime heritage and are frequently given as gifts.

Set #1 No. 1 - Vice Adm. Harry G. DeWolfe CBE DSO DSC RCN Vividly recounting battles in HMCS Haida

Set #1 No. 2 - Lt.Cdr. Fred H. Sherwood DSC & Bar RCNVR Served on submarine P556 “Reluctant Dragon” and then on HMS Spiteful

Set #1 No. 3 - Capt C. Patrick Nixon, DSC MID RCN Served on and/or commaded HMCS St. Laurent, HMCS Chaudiere HMCS Crescent.

Set #1 No. 4 - Vice Adm. John C. (Scruff) O’Brien OC CD RCN Served on HMCS Saguenay, HMS Quilliam and with Task Force H.

Set #2 No. 1 - Rear Admiral Jeffry Vanstone Brock DSO DSC CD RCN
Commanded HMS Kirkela, HMS Stonecrop and HMS Bazely

Set #2 No. 2 - Rear Adm Desmond W. Piers DSC CM RCN Served on and/or commanded HMCS Saguenay and HMCS Restigouche and HMCS Algonquin

Set #2 No. 3 - Rear Adm. Robert P. Welland DSC & Bar CD RCN
Served and/or commanded HMS Fame, HMCS St. Laurent, HMCS Assiniboine and HMCS Haida

Set #2 No. 4 - Rear Adm. John A. Charles CMM MID CD RCN Served on HMS Erebus, HMS Vindictive, HMS Berwick, HMS Restigouche and HMS Laforey.

Set #3 No. 1 - Commander Charles Herbert Little CD RCN First Canadian Head of Naval Intelligence. His personal experiences are many and revealing.

Set#3 No. 2 - Leading Seaman Frank Curry RCNVR Served on HMCS Kamsack, HMCS Caraquet and HMCS Georgian

Set #3 No. 3 - Vice Admiral Ralph L. Hennessy DSC CD BA Served on HMCS Assiniboine, HMCS Micmac, Quebec and Algonquin

Set #3 No. 4 - “With Harry DeWolf in Haida” Part II Activity of this gentleman and HMCS Haida deserve more extensive coverage and documentation.

Set #4 No. 1 - Commodore G.C. Edwards MID RCN Selected stories of early WWII laced with colorful experiences and defending coastal convoys.

Set #4 No. 2 - Rear Adm. R.W. Timbrell DSC MID RCN Served on HMS Conway, HMS Erebus, HMS Vindictive, HMS Barham, HMS Hood, HMS Warspite, HMCS Margaree, HMCS Annapolis, HMCS Ottawa (2) and Escort Group 11.

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PRICE FOR EACH VIDEO - $25.00 PLUS $4.00 SHIPPING AND HANDLING PLUS APPROPRIATE TAXES
ENTIRE SERIES - $300.00 PLUS $20.00 SHIPPING AND HANDLING PLUS APPROPRIATE TAXES

THE LOVERS' EXILE is an adaptation of MEIDO NO HIKYAKU a major work of classic Japanese dramatist Monzaemon Chikamatsu (1673-1724).
The story, one of Chikamatsu's domestic tragedies, recounts the love between a penniless clerk and an indentured prostitute. He uses his clients' money in order to free her and the two flee the town, delaying only briefly their tragic fate.

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90 minutes (VHS)(Eng)(Colour)
$60.00 plus shipping/tax.

POTTERS AT WORK
Koshibara Village, Japan, Firing the Kiln: An ancient style brick kiln is being walled up at night in Koishibara Village. Pots are seen standing its red flames, baking. (Filmed at the workshop of Kumao Ohta, Koishibara, Fukuoka, Prefacture, Japan. Onda, a neighbouring village, Digging and preparing the clay: A handmade machine pounds clay powder shovelled under its beak-like head by an old man. It is propelled by the weight of running water at its feet and moves in the inexorable rhythm of all the film's component parts.
The Sakamoto family, Teaching the craft: A man and his son work side by side fashioning pots. The man's wife brings them fresh clay. Words are heard as we realize the son is learning his father's craft. For every pot the son makes, the father has made three or more.
Koishibara, the Ohta family eaarly morning, The pots: Kumao Ohta is working with his sons and apprentices fashioning pots. Endless repetitions of hand movements at the wheels display the control and skill of the workers. Pots are placed in the yard to dry in the sun. An abrupt shower forces the potters indoors.

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28:40 minutes (VHS)(Eng)(Colour)
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THE LEACH POTTERY
In 1952, as the Leach Pottery of St. Ives, Cornwall, England was beginning to acheive international renown, a local arts group, produced a silent film to promote the work of the pottery.
Bernanrd Leach founded the Leach Pottery in 1920, an shortly thereafter wrote his classic, A POTTER'S BOOK.
The film is a charming presentation of the daily activities of the members of the LEACH POTTERY. We witness various stages of creation of some of the Leach pottery's standard ware, and then see Bernard Leach himself designing and completing one of his "willow" jars.
Although there are other professional films of the Leach Pottery, this archival film, now restored and released for the first time on video with the cooperation of the late Janet Darnell Leach, provides an especially the early days of the world renowned LEACH POTTERY.

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32 minutes, (VHS)(Black & White)(Silent)
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