← On the Spot

Season 1

11 episodes · 1953

  1. 1The Winnipeg Story

    01 Jan 1953 · 15 min

  2. 2Winnipeg Ballet

    01 Jan 1953 · 15 min

    Fred Davis goes backstage at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

  3. 3Oil

    01 Jan 1953 · 15 min

  4. 4Transpacific Flight

    01 Jan 1953 · 15 min

    This short documentary invites us aboard a transpacific flight. Host Fred Davis, on his way to shoot stories in Japan and Korea, interviews the pilot, navigator and flight attendants.

  5. 5It's Raining Soldiers!

    01 Jan 1953 · 15 min

  6. 6Football Story

    01 Jan 1953 · 15 min

    This short documentary from the On the Spot series - “National Film Board’s up-to-the-minute report of what’s happening somewhere in Canada” – invites us to visit the Edmonton Eskimos football team on their home ground. Host Fred Davis introduce us to some of the team’s key players and interviews its 28-year-old coach, Darrell Royal, a firm believer in the use of moving pictures in the coaching of modern football.

  7. 7Hotel Story

    01 Jan 1953 · 13 min

  8. 8The Zoo in Stanley Park

    01 Jan 1953 · 15 min

    In this documentary short, a superintendent at Vancouver's Stanley Park Zoo discusses issues related to feeding and acclimatization of birds and animals from other zones.

  9. 9The Mounties' Crime Lab

    01 Jan 1953 · 15 min

  10. 11Radar Station

    01 Jan 1953 · 15 min

    Radar Station is a 1953 Canadian short documentary film produced by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) as part of the On The Spot series made specifically for television. The documentary involved an account of a visit to a radar station while it is involved in a simulated air attack, and is based on first-person interviews of the staff at the radar station.