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Judith Rosemary (Sparks) Crawley (April 21, 1914 – September 16, 1986) was a Canadian film producer, cinematographer, director, and screenwriter. She and her husband Frank Radford "Budge" Crawley co-founded the production company Crawley Films in 1939.
Aug 28, 2019 · At age 72, the woman regarded as the “first lady of Canadian films” was suffering with respiratory illness. Judith Crawley died at home on September 16, 1986. Frank “Budge” Crawley passed ...
- Judith Crawley
- Laura Boulton
- Gudrun Bjerring Parker
- Evelyn Spice Cherry
- Jane Marsh
- Evelyn Lambart
Judith Crawley was hired as a freelancer by John Grierson. She directed Four New Apple Dishes(1940), the first NFB film directed by a woman—and the first Canadian film to be made in colour. Crawley had previous experience behind the camera and as a director, having worked at her own company, Crawley Films, which she and her husband Budge Crawley ha...
In 1941, Grierson turned to another freelancer—American filmmaker Laura Boulton—to make a series of films on Canadian cultural communities. The series was called Peoples of Canada, and its goal was to broaden awareness of Canada’s cultural mosaic, in order to create a feeling of national unity. Boulton held degrees in music and anthropology, and ha...
While Judith Crawley and Laura Boulton came to the NFB as freelancers, Gudrun Bjerring Parker was hired as a permanent employee. Parker had worked as a journalist with the Winnipeg Free Press before coming to the NFB in March 1942. Hired as an assistant editor, Parker quickly showed a desire to make her own films. Grierson told her to go find some ...
Evelyn Spice Cherry was also hired as a permanent NFB employee. Born in Yorkton, Saskatchewan, she graduated in 1929 from the University of Missouri, with a degree in journalism, before going to work as a journalist for the Yorkton Enterprise and the Regina Leader-Post. In 1931, she went to London, England, to make an amateur film and wound up cros...
None of the women we have profiled so far made war propaganda films. That was an honour that—with Grierson’s consent—was reserved only for men. Jane Marshwas the only woman to succeed in breaking this unwritten rule. After joining the NFB in 1941, she quickly convinced Grierson to let her write a screenplay about a small town which, her research sh...
As we have seen, very few women succeeded in making documentary films at the NFB during the war. The same was true in animation, where Evelyn Lambart was the only woman of the era work in animation. Lambart was hired at the NFB in 1942, to create animated geographical maps, primarily for the series The World in Action. These maps served as an essen...
A pioneer director, writer, cinematographer and editor and one of the first women to make films in Canada, Judith Crawley was a remarkable woman who was well known nationally and internationally for her many accomplishments and contributions to the burgeoning Canadian film industry.
Judith Rosemary (Sparks) Crawley (April 21, 1914 – September 16, 1986) was a Canadian film producer, cinematographer, director, and screenwriter. She and her husband Frank Radford "Budge" Crawley co-founded the production company Crawley Films in 1939.
I am an Austrian Hungarian female , worked in Television and Radio and fashion in Austria, had a large hospitality portfolio for over 20 years , passionate about the camera and photography. Live animals. Especially my little mini Schnauzer Kaiser . I traveled the world and have an open mind to explore new adventures.
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