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Graham McInnes

Graham McInnes was arts columnist for Saturday Night magazine and a commentator on CBC radio before joining the NFB in 1939. After leaving the NFB in 1945, he joined the foreign service and eventually became Canada's first ambassador to UNESCO. He was the author of two novels and three volumes of memoirs. Graham McInnes died in 1970.

One Man’s Documentary

A Memoir of the Early Years of the National Film Board

Graham McInnes (Author), Gene Walz (Editor)

McInnes’s memoir of these “days of high excitement” is an insider’s look at the NFB from 1939 to 1945, a vivid “origin” story of Canada’s emerging world-class film studio that provides the NFB with the kind of full-bodied vitality usually associated with the great Hollywood studios in their golden years.