Season One
14 episodes · 1958
The first and only season of Candid Eye was a collection of documentaries filmed by the National Film Board of Canada spanning from 1958 to 1961.
1Blood and Fire
This short documentary by Terence Macartney-Filgate focuses on the men and women who dedicated their lives and service to the Salvation Army.
2A Foreign Language
This short documentary focuses on a Montreal public school where thousands of immigrant children learn English for the first time.
3Country Threshing
A day spent harvesting and threshing grain on a dairy farm, using methods already becoming old-fashioned in 1958.
4Pilgrimage
Chronicles the annual pilgrimage to St. Joseph's Oratory, a Montreal landmark where a humble faith-healing staff member of the church gained international renown for his apparent ability to perform miracles.
5Memory of Summer
An attempt to recapture the magic of childhood as the cameras follow children at play.
6Police
The misbehaving public performs for the camera in a half-hour miscellany of misdeeds. In a behind-the-scenes look at the hour-by-hour operation of a large metropolitan police force, this film presents a fair sampling of what keeps Toronto's police officers busy twenty-four hours a day.
7The Days Before Christmas
A look at how mid-20th century Montreal celebrated Christmas.
10Emergency Ward
This 1959 documentary short is a frank portrait of the daily operations inside the Montreal General Hospital's emergency ward.
11The Back-Breaking Leaf
Here is a graphic picture of the tobacco harvest in southwestern Ontario. At the end of July, transient field workers move in for a brief bonanza when the plant is ripe. The tobacco harvesters call it "the back-breaking leaf."
12The End of the Line
A film about the railway transition from steam locomotives to diesel engines.
13The Cars in Your Life
From a used-car lot to the public highways, slow-motion and stylized photography provide a provocative, revealing look at a people's obsession with cars.
14Festival in Puerto Rico
Canadian contralto Maureen Forrester is to perform at the fourth annual Casals Festival (so named after cellist Pau Casals) in June, 1959 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, the performance specifically of "A Hymn for the Madonna" by Domenico Scarlatti, the manuscript for which has just been rediscovered, this to be only the second performance of such since this rediscovery.