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The Cat Came Back and The Big Snit: cartoon form does not settle audience suitability
The Cat Came Back and The Big Snit are animated shorts with comic premises that need more context than the word cartoon.
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Film and programme choices
Kanehsatake: keep the event date, film release and repost date separate
Alanis Obomsawin's Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance documents the 1990 conflict and was released in 1993.
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Angry Inuk has different catalogue durations: identify the edition before planning the film
The NFB's catalogue lists a 2016 Angry Inuk feature at 1 hour 22 minutes 11 seconds and a separate 2016 entry at 44 minutes.
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Reel Injun: add representation context when discussing western film images
Reel Injun examines cinema's portrayal of North American Indigenous people.
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Documentary reconstruction or archive footage: how to tell
A documentary can combine an interview recorded recently, a photograph made during the event and a scene performed later.
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Colourised footage is a transformed historical record
Colour in a history programme can come from original colour photography or from a later colourisation process.
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