Tom Daly

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Tom Daly , actually Thomas Cullen Daly , (born April 25, 1918 in Toronto , Canada , † September 18, 2011 in Westmount near Montreal ) was a Canadian film producer , film editor and film director .

Life

Daly graduated from the University of Toronto in Classical Philology and English Literature in 1940 and joined the National Film Board of Canada as a production assistant that same year . Here he learned film editing with the British documentary filmmakers Stuart Legg and John Grierson . Among other things, he was involved as an assistant editor in Legg's Oscar-winning short documentary Churchill's Island . During World War II , Daly was responsible for editing films in the Canada Carries On series and The World in Action series. The latter was also fed from the NFB's stock shot library, which Daly had founded.

In 1945 Daly produced his first film and in 1951 became executive producer of Unit B of the NFB, which lasted until 1964. The directors working here included Wolf Koenig , Colin Low and Gerald Potterton . Eight films in Unit B were nominated for an Oscar during Daly's time , and Unit B was "a world-famous source of innovative films that have since become classics of documentary films". Between 1958 and 1961, Daly also served as executive producer of the 14-part documentary film series Candid Eye .

After the dissolution of Unit B in the wake of the discontinuation of the unit system at the NFB, Daly was involved as editor in the experimental film Labyrinth , which caused a sensation at Expo 67 and was also partially edited for television as In the Labyrinth .

Daly retired in 1984. By then he had produced over 300 films. He died in 2011 after a long illness at Chateau Westmount near Montreal. The NFB recognized him as "the most important person who has ever worked in the English-speaking department of the NFB"

Filmography (selection)

  • 1944: Battle of Europe
  • 1946: Canada - World Trader
  • 1948: Canadian International Trade Fair
  • 1950: How to Build an Igloo
  • 1951: Caribou Hunters
  • 1951: Pen Point Percussion
  • 1952: The Romance of Transportation in Canada
  • 1952: Age of the Beaver
  • 1953: Winter in Canada
  • 1954: Paul Tomkowicz: Street Railway Switchman
  • 1954: Corral
  • 1957: City of Gold
  • 1958: The Living Stone
  • 1960: The Sky Above Us (Universe)
  • 1961: Circle of the Sun
  • 1961: Very Nice, Very Nice
  • 1962: Lonely Boy
  • 1963: Christmas crackers
  • 1964: My Financial Career
  • 1964: Eskimo artist Kenojuak ( Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak , short documentary)
  • 1966: Helicopter Canada
  • 1979: In the Labyrinth
  • 1980: The Last Days of Living
  • 1982: FR Scott: Rhyme and Reason
  • 1982: Standing Alone
  • 1984: The Road to Patriation

Awards (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "A world-famous source of innovative films that have become documentary classics", Tom Daly ( English, French ) In: The Canadian Encyclopedia .
  2. ↑ NFB pioneer Tom Daly dies at age 93 . In: The Canadian Press , September 21, 2011.
  3. ^ "The most important figure ever to work in the English-language branch of the NFB". Cf. Daly, Tom on onf-nfb.gc.ca ( memento of the original from October 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.onf-nfb.gc.ca
personal data
SURNAME Daly, Tom
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Daly, Thomas Cullen (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian film producer, film editor and film director
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Toronto
DATE OF DEATH September 18, 2011
Place of death Westmount near Montréal