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Old Fashioned Style

"(8 minutes) 16mm colour documentary. One job‚ one man, who has been happy for thirty-five years making peanut butter‚ "the best‚ (no additives)!" [1977/78 SFU Film Workshop Productions program]. Only one element (noted as work print, but no splices so likely final). Miscellaneous note: "Woodward Stores Ltd."

Once Upon A Climb

"A serious discussion of climbing with a contrast of climbing as it used to be with the challenges and possibilities provided by modern equipment. The film uses the vehicle of a morning conversation between two climbers in their tent which is perched on the side of a cliff" [Handwritten notes (author unknown), 21 May 1975, in arrangement & description section of F-232 collection file]

One in a Million

"(12 minutes) 16mm comedy-drama, educational film. One man's addiction to the awesome frustrations of the lottery‚ a mania sweeping Canada in the 70's." [1977/78 SFU Film Workshop Productions program]

Passage

"A delightful cartoon from John Pill. … a bouncy rhythmic 3 minutes of abstract animation that alternates an active collection of purple pills with speeded up shots of running water and billowing clouds, a visual combination that actually manages to leave the viewer euphoric." [Michael Walsh, "Student film mood: Calmness supplants revolution," ca. 1973 article]; "(Filmmaker’s first animated film, shot in Reversal Negative B & W.) The film is based on some verses by KABIR (1398-1518), the poet-saint who lived in the East." [Spring Arts Festival, March 11-April 8, S.F.U. Film Workshop Productions 1973, program]

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