Candid Eye [SEP] original network
Candid Eye
Candid Eye is a Canadian documentary television series which aired on CBC Television in 1958.
Production.
This series aired various National Film Board of Canada (NFB) documentaries such as "Blood and Fire" (about the Salvation Army), "The Back-Breaking Leaf" (about southern Ontario tobacco farming), "The Days Before Christmas" (filmed in Montreal) and "Police" (about Toronto's police force). The series was filmed with technically advanced portable cameras. Footage relied
way of seeing, it is an art of immediacy and movement, of candid poses and compositions, of the play of light expressed in a bright and varied use of colour.
The public, at first hostile, gradually came to believe that the Impressionists had captured a fresh and original vision, even if the art critics and art establishment disapproved of the new style. By recreating the sensation in the eye that views the subject, rather than delineating the details of the subject, and by creating a welter of techniques and