Book Launches:

One Man's Documentary:
A Memoir of the Early Years of the National Film Board
Written by Graham McInnes
Notes and Introduction by Gene Walz

McInnes was one of the first people hired by John Grierson; as a scriptwriter, producer, and director, he has over forty NFB films to his credit. Son of famous British novelist Angela Thirkell and brother of notorious 1960s novelist Colin MacInnes, Graham wrote four other memoirs, two highly-acclaimed novels and two books on Canadian art. He died in Paris as the first Canadian ambassador to UNESCO before he could completely finish the manuscript. The book is a lively, insider's look at the Film Board, one that dispells the notion that the NFB was a boring, bureaucratic, earnest place. Seth Feldman says that "it's like picking up a 1940s issue of The New Yorker."

To order visit: The University of Manitoba Press.

*If ordering from outside Manitoba, you can also find it on Amazon Canada.