Evelyn Cherry

Around the Village Green

Marion Taylor, Evelyn Cherry

John Watt

Contrasts traditional and modern village life, as changes occur with better transport and as country estates are sold off for housing.

A Job in a Million

Evelyn Cherry

A Cockney lad trains to be a messenger boy.

Weather Forecast

Evelyn Cherry

Short documentary about weather forecasting, emphasising the importance of the GPO's telecommunications systems.

Calendar of the Year

Evelyn Cherry

Wings of Mercy

Evelyn Cherry, Lawrence Cherry

Tommy Tweed

This short film takes a look at Saskatchewan’s air ambulance service, organized and operated by experienced flyers who provide speedy hospitalization and treatment to the ill and injured. Within 15 minutes of receiving a desperate phone call for help from a remote area, a plane is on its way, guided to the patient with the help of landmarks such as a coal bin or a thin column of smoke on a northern lakeshore.

Windbreaks on the Prairies

Evelyn Cherry

Tommy Tweed

This short film serves as a cautionary tale to farmers who recklessly cut down trees on their land. When prairie farmers engaged in this practice to facilitate plowing, they discovered that the trees had served as windbreaks protecting top soil from erosion. The Dominion Department of Agriculture's experimental station at Indian Head, Saskatchewan, cultivated acres of young trees for distribution to farmers.

55000 for Breakfast

Evelyn Cherry, Lawrence Cherry

Jacques Scott

This short documentary profiles a 1949 meeting of the International Federation of Agricultural Producers in Guelph, Ontario. The IFAP plans to help solve the dire problem of world hunger—a problem sharpened by the birth of 55,000 more human beings, arriving "for breakfast," each day. Delegates emphasize the plight of the many nations who face starvation while others have a surplus of food. The conference challenges the world to succeed at implementing a proposed plan for the fair distribution of food.

When All the People Play

Evelyn Cherry

This short 1948 documentary focuses on the people of Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, and their efforts to create a recreation center. People from every section of the community contributed their services to planning and establishing this center, which then offered activities as varied as softball and library services.