{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2023}} {{Infobox television | image = | genre = Documentary | creator = | developer = | writer = Strowan Robertson<br>Stanley Jackson | director = Terence Macartney-Filgate <br/>Stanley Jackson<br/>Wolf Koenig<br>Roman Kroitor<br>William Greaves<br>Gilles Gascon (asst.) | presenter = | starring = | voices = | narrated = Stanley Jackson | theme_music_composer = | opentheme = | endtheme = | composer = Eldon Rathburn<br>Pete Seeger<br>Sonny Terry | country = | language = English | channel = CBC Television | first_aired = {{Start date|1958|10|26|df=y}} | last_aired = {{End date|1958|12|07|df=y}} | num_seasons = 1 | num_episodes = 8 (to 14) | list_episodes = | executive_producer = Tom Daly | producer = Roman Kroitor<br>Wolf Koenig<br>John Spotton | editor = John Spotton<br>James Beveridge<br>William Greaves<br>Bruce Parsons<br>Édouard Davidovici<br>Roman Kroitor<br>Wolf Koenig<br>René Laporte<br>Tom Daly<br>Lucien Marleau<br>Kathleen Shannon (sound)<br>Stuart Baker (sound)<br>George Croll (sound)<br>Frank Orban (sound)<br>Michael McKennirey (sound)<br>Don Wellington (sound) | location = | cinematography = Michel Brault<br>Georges Dufaux<br>Reginald H. Morris<br>Terence Macartney-Filgate<br>Jean Roy<br>Wolf Koenig | camera = | runtime = 24–30 minutes{{sfn|Evans|1991|p=73}} | company = National Film Board of Canada | related = {{Plainlist| * ''Documentary '60'' * ''Frontiers''<br>''The World in Action'' }} }}
'''''Candid Eye''''' is a Canadian documentary television series which aired on CBC Television in 1958 and was expanded into 1961.
==Production==
Wolf Koenig, Terence Macartney-Filgate, and Stanley Jackson filmed ''The Days Before Christmas'' in December 1957, and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and National Film Board requested six more episodes after seeing it. ''The Days Before Christmas'' was later released in December 1958, while ''Blood and Fire'' aired as the first episode on 26 October 1958.{{sfn|Evans|1991|p=72–73}}<ref name="nfb">{{Cite news |date=24 April 2018 |title=Watch The Candid Eye, Our Seminal Documentary Series |work=National Film Board |url=https://blog.nfb.ca/blog/2018/04/24/candid-eye-series/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221025054536/https://blog.nfb.ca/blog/2018/04/24/candid-eye-series/ |archive-date=25 October 2022}}</ref>
Tom Daly served as the executive producer. Multiple names were suggested for the show, including ''The Roving Eye'', but ''Candid Eye'' was selected, despite fears that it would be confused with ''Candid Camera''.<ref name="nfb" />
''Candid Eye'', influenced by British Free Cinema films<ref>{{cite web |title=Candid Eye |url=https://cfe.tiff.net/canadianfilmencyclopedia/content/films/candid-eye |website=cfe.tiff.net |publisher=Canadian Film Encyclopedia |access-date=6 March 2023}}</ref> and the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson, was one of the NFB's very first experiments in Cinéma vérité. The films were observational, shot on location using the NFB's new mobile, light-weight equipment. Only ''Festival in Puerto Rico'' had a script, and ''Pilgrimage'', ''The Days Before Christmas'', ''Police'', and ''Blood and Fire'' involved large crowds. ''The Back-Breaking Leaf'' and ''Country Threshing'' were shot in fields; ''The Cars in Your Life'', using slow-motion and pop-on-pop-off photography, was shot, in part, on a highway. The series has been credited as helping to inspire the Cinéma vérité documentary movement.<ref name="Aitken">{{cite book|last=Aitken|first=Ian|title=Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JdSNAQAAQBAJ&dq=NFB+cinema+verite&pg=PA168|date=27 October 2005|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1579584450|page=168}}</ref>
The show was successful--''Blood and Fire'' won a Canadian film award and an American television award.<ref>{{cite web |title=Blood and Fire |url=http://onf-nfb.gc.ca/en/our-collection/?idfilm=11764 |website=onf-nfb.gc.ca |publisher=National Film Board of Canada |access-date=6 March 2023}}</ref> (Later, ''The Back-Breaking Leaf'' would win the Eurovision Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival.) Six additional episodes were requested, although they would air under the name ''Documentary '60'' after the CBC asked the NFB to rebrand ''Candid Eye'', ''Frontiers'', and ''The World in Action'' into one show.<ref name="nfb" /> The ''Candid Eye'' is now classified as one 14-film series.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Candid Eye |url=https://www.nfb.ca/series/candid-eye-television-series/ |website=nfb.ca |publisher=National Film Board of Canada |access-date=6 March 2023}}</ref>
==Episodes== {{Episode table |total_width=|background=#66573E |overall= |title= |director= |writer= |airdate= |episodes= {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 1 |Title = Blood and Fire |DirectedBy = Terence Macartney-Filgate<ref name="directors">{{Cite news |title=The Candid Eye Television Series |work=National Film Board |url=https://www.nfb.ca/series/candid-eye-television-series/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221025054143/https://www.nfb.ca/series/candid-eye-television-series/ |archive-date=25 October 2022}}</ref> |WrittenBy = N/A |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|df=yes|1958|10|26}}<ref name="nfb" /><ref>{{cite web |title=Blood and Fire |url=https://www.nfb.ca/series/candid-eye-television-series/playback/#1 |website=nfb.ca |publisher=National Film Board of Canada |access-date=6 March 2023}}</ref> |ShortSummary = The activities of The Salvation Army. Awards: 2 |LineColor = 66573E }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 2 |Title = A Foreign Language |DirectedBy = Stanley Jackson<ref name="directors" /> |WrittenBy = N/A |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|df=yes|1958|11|02}}{{sfn|Evans|1991|p=72}}<ref name="nfb" /><ref>{{cite web |title=A Foreign Language |url=https://www.nfb.ca/series/candid-eye-television-series/playback/#2 |website=nfb.ca |publisher=National Film Board of Canada |access-date=6 March 2023}}</ref> |ShortSummary = The teaching of English to immigrant children in a Montreal school. |LineColor = 66573E }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 3 |Title = Country Threshing |DirectedBy = Wolf Koenig<ref name="directors" /> |WrittenBy = N/A |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|df=yes|1958|11|09}}<ref name="nfb" /><ref>{{cite web |title=Country Threshing |url=https://www.nfb.ca/series/candid-eye-television-series/playback/#3 |website=nfb.ca |publisher=National Film Board of Canada |access-date=6 March 2023}}</ref> |ShortSummary = The activities of a farm in the Eastern Townships of Quebec |LineColor = 66573E }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 4 |Title = Pilgrimage |DirectedBy = Terence Macartney-Filgate<ref name="directors" /> |WrittenBy = N/A |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|df=yes|1958|11|16}}<ref name="nfb" /><ref>{{cite web |title=Pilgrimage |url=https://www.nfb.ca/series/candid-eye-television-series/playback/#4 |website=nfb.ca |publisher=National Film Board of Canada |access-date=6 March 2023}}</ref> |ShortSummary = Invalid and disabled pilgrims flock to Saint Joseph's Oratory. |LineColor = 66573E }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 5 |Title = Memory of Summer |DirectedBy = Stanley Jackson<ref name="directors" /> |WrittenBy = N/A |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|df=yes|1958|11|23}}<ref name="nfb" /><ref>{{cite web |title=Memory of Summer |url=https://www.nfb.ca/series/candid-eye-television-series/playback/#5 |website=nfb.ca |publisher=National Film Board of Canada |access-date=6 March 2023}}</ref> |ShortSummary = Depictions of the magic of childhood include playing and singing. |LineColor = 66573E }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 6 |Title = Police |DirectedBy = Terence Macartney-Filgate<ref name="directors" /> |WrittenBy = N/A |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|df=yes|1958|11|30}}<ref name="nfb" /><ref>{{cite web |title=Police |url=https://www.nfb.ca/series/candid-eye-television-series/playback/#6 |website=nfb.ca |publisher=National Film Board of Canada |access-date=6 March 2023}}</ref> |ShortSummary = The daily routine of Toronto Police Service officers. |LineColor = 66573E }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 7 |Title = The Days Before Christmas |DirectedBy = Wolf Koenig<br/>Terence Macartney-Filgate<br/> Stanley Jackson |WrittenBy = N/A |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|df=yes|1958|12|07}}{{sfn|Evans|1991|p=72}}<ref>{{cite web |title=The Days Before Christmas |url=https://www.nfb.ca/series/candid-eye-television-series/playback/#7 |website=nfb.ca |publisher=National Film Board of Canada |access-date=6 March 2023}}</ref> |ShortSummary = The sights and sounds of preparations for Christmas in Montreal. |LineColor = 66573E }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 8 |Title = Glenn Gould - Off the Record |DirectedBy = Wolf Koenig <br/>Roman Kroitor |WrittenBy = Stanley Jackson (commentary) |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1959}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Glenn Gould - Off the Record |url=https://www.nfb.ca/series/candid-eye-television-series/playback/#8 |website=nfb.ca |publisher=National Film Board of Canada |access-date=6 March 2023}}</ref> |ShortSummary = The concert pianist relaxes, and discusses composition, at his lakeside cottage. |LineColor = 66573E }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 9 |Title = Glenn Gould - On the Record |DirectedBy = Wolf Koenig <br/>Roman Kroitor |WrittenBy = Stanley Jackson (commentary) |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1959}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Glenn Gould - On the Record |url=https://www.nfb.ca/series/candid-eye-television-series/playback/#9 |website=nfb.ca |publisher=National Film Board of Canada |access-date=6 March 2023}}</ref> |ShortSummary = Gould is in New York, where he is filmed recording Bach's ''Italian Concerto''. |LineColor = 66573E }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 10 |Title = Emergency Ward |DirectedBy = William Greaves |WrittenBy = Stanley Jackson (commentary) |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1959}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Emergency Ward |url=https://www.nfb.ca/series/candid-eye-television-series/playback/#10 |website=nfb.ca |publisher=National Film Board of Canada |access-date=6 March 2023}}</ref> |ShortSummary = A day in the life of the emergency ward at Montreal General Hospital. |LineColor = 66573E }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 11 |Title = The Back-Breaking Leaf |DirectedBy = Terence Macartney-Filgate |WrittenBy = Stanley Jackson (commentary) |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1959}}<ref>{{cite web |title=The Back-Breaking Leaf |url=https://www.nfb.ca/series/candid-eye-television-series/playback/#11 |website=nfb.ca |publisher=National Film Board of Canada |access-date=6 March 2023}}</ref> |ShortSummary = A sympathetic depiction of the manual tobacco harvest in southwestern Ontario. Awards: 3, including the Eurovision Grand Prix at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival. |LineColor = 66573E }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 12 |Title = End of the Line |DirectedBy = Terence Macartney-Filgate |WrittenBy = N/A |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1959}}<ref>{{cite web |title=End of the Line |url=https://www.nfb.ca/series/candid-eye-television-series/playback/#12 |website=nfb.ca |publisher=National Film Board of Canada |access-date=6 March 2023}}</ref> |ShortSummary = A nostalgic look at the steam locomotive, with music by Pete Seeger and Sonny Terry. |LineColor = 66573E }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 13 |Title = The Cars in Your Life |DirectedBy = Terence Macartney-Filgate |WrittenBy = Stanley Jackson (commentary) |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1960}}<ref>{{cite web |title=The Cars in Your Life |url=https://www.nfb.ca/series/candid-eye-television-series/playback/#14 |website=nfb.ca |publisher=National Film Board of Canada |access-date=6 March 2023}}</ref> |ShortSummary = A humorous look at 'motormania'. Awards: 1 |LineColor = 66573E }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 14 |Title = Festival in Puerto Rico |DirectedBy = Wolf Koenig <br/>Roman Kroitor |WrittenBy = Strowan Robertson |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1961}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Festival in Puerto Rico |url=https://www.nfb.ca/series/candid-eye-television-series/playback/#13 |website=nfb.ca |publisher=National Film Board of Canada |access-date=6 March 2023}}</ref> |ShortSummary = Canadian contralto Maureen Forrester performs at the Casals Festival. |LineColor = 66573E }} }}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Works cited== * {{cite book|last=Evans |first=Gary |title=In the National Interest: A Chronicle of the National Film Board of Canada from 1949 to 1989 |publisher=University of Toronto Press |date=1991 |url=https://archive.org/details/innationalintere0000evan |isbn=0802027849}}
==External links== * {{Cite web | url=http://www.film.queensu.ca/CBC/CBC.html | first=Blaine | last=Allan | title=Candid Eye | publisher=Queen's University | year=1996 | accessdate=7 May 2010 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924012734/http://www.film.queensu.ca/CBC/CBC.html | archivedate=24 September 2015 }} * [http://www.onf-nfb.gc.ca/eng/collection/resultat.php?ids=171739&nom=Candid%20Eye&type=liste-serie ''Candid Eye'' at the National Film Board of Canada]
Category:CBC Television original programming Category:1950s Canadian documentary television series Category:1958 Canadian television series debuts Category:1958 Canadian television series endings Category:Black-and-white Canadian television shows Category:National Film Board of Canada documentary series Category:English-language Canadian television shows