Fonds consists of prints and elements for films produced by Ralph C. Ellis and Stephen Ellis, as well as prints and related material for films they distributed.
Fonds includes the following Series: Series 01: Ralph Ellis Estate Series 02: Stellis Media Inc. Series 03: Stephen Ellis
Series includes material related to Now That April’s Here, a 1958 Canadian feature-film directed by William Davidson (later producer of Adventures in Rainbow Country and Matt & Jenny). The project was an early attempt to start a feature-film industry in Toronto independent of the CBC and NFB. Based on work by Morley Callaghan, shot on the streets of Toronto, and narrated by Raymond Massey. Criticized in Variety for its “amateur acting standards and limited prospect,” the film was a financial failure.
Series also contains material related to the following unproduced KEG projects: Mayor of Utt Rusty The Red Squirrel Living Wild
Series includes the following Sub-Series: 03.01 Wild Canada 03.02 Profiles of Nature 03.03 Matt & Jenny 03.04 Adventures in Rainbow County 03.05 Fishing In Northern Ontario 03.06 The Baby Human 03.07 Mother Nature 03.08 Wild Guess 03.09 Tales of the Unexpected 03.10 Ingmar Bergman Features 03.11 Distribution Features 03.12 World of Survival = Survival 03.13 Sports Miniatures 03.14 Thin Ice / Survival 03.15 Laurence Olivier Presents: The Best Play of the Year 19-- 03.16 Dan Gibson’s Nature Family 03.17 The Man Who Loved Birds 03.18 Images of Galapagos 03.19 The Tube
Series contains materials related to Wings In The Wilderness (1975). 90-minute feature. Directed by Robert Ryan. Executive Producer Ralph C. Ellis. Narrated by Lorne Greene. Winner of Best Sound Recording in a Non-theatrical Film at the 1975 Canadian Film Awards. Original synopsis from Ellis Enterprises is available electronically. The same story was used previously as the basis for the 1971 CBC television special Dan Gibson’s Nature Family.
Series includes the following Sub-Series: 02.01 Audubon Wildlife Theatre 02.02 Wildlife Cinema 02.03 Ecology
Statement of the 3rd Asian Solidarity Forum on "Military Sexual Slavery by Japan" by Nelia Sancho (Representative of LILA-PILIPINA). Under the theme of <About the Japanese Government's "Charity Money" Fundraising Plan>, we oppose the Japanese government's private fundraising and demand an official apology, fact-finding, and history education from the Japanese government.
Sub-series consists of materials related to a series of 26 five-minute short films on skiing, Sports Miniatures, produced by Gerald Kedey’s Motion Picture Centre and sold by KEG Productions. The series was KEG’s first television production. Dan Gibson filmed the series on skis. Features noted Canadian alpine skier Ernie McCulloch (1926-1987).
Titles in the sub-series include: Mostly Experts Magic of McCullough Skiing In Orbit The Slalom
