Banshees Over Canada (1943)

A look at Britain's and Canada's defensive preparations against an air attack.

Date of release
1943-07-08
TMDB
9.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
19m
Genres
Documentary
Director
James Beveridge

Interesting facts

Banshees Over Canada is a 19-minute 1943 Canadian documentary film, made by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). The film was produced by Sydney Newman and directed by James Beveridge. The film's Canadian French title was Vautours au-dessus du Canada. It was produced as part of the wartime Canada Carries On series.

Production

Typical of the NFB's Canada Carries On series of documentary short films, Banshees Over Canada relied heavily on newsreel footage. The British sequences were from the British Ministry of Information. The later sequences of air-raid and civil defence preparations in Canada were primarily filmed in Vancouver and elsewhere in British Columbia.

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