Candid Eye (1958) - Season One Episodes and Ratings

This short documentary by Terence Macartney-Filgate focuses on the men and women who dedicated their lives and service to the Salvation Army.

This short documentary focuses on a Montreal public school where thousands of immigrant children learn English for the first time.

A day spent harvesting and threshing grain on a dairy farm, using methods already becoming old-fashioned in 1958.

Chronicles the annual pilgrimage to St. Joseph's Oratory, a Montreal landmark where a humble faith-healing staff member of the church gained international renown for his apparent ability to perform miracles.

An attempt to recapture the magic of childhood as the cameras follow children at play.

The misbehaving public performs for the camera in a half-hour miscellany of misdeeds. In a behind-the-scenes look at the hour-by-hour operation of a large metropolitan police force, this film presents a fair sampling of what keeps Toronto's police officers busy twenty-four hours a day.

A look at how mid-20th century Montreal celebrated Christmas.

This 1959 documentary short is a frank portrait of the daily operations inside the Montreal General Hospital's emergency ward.

Here is a graphic picture of the tobacco harvest in southwestern Ontario. At the end of July, transient field workers move in for a brief bonanza when the plant is ripe. The tobacco harvesters call it "the back-breaking leaf."

A film about the railway transition from steam locomotives to diesel engines.

From a used-car lot to the public highways, slow-motion and stylized photography provide a provocative, revealing look at a people's obsession with cars.

Canadian contralto Maureen Forrester is to perform at the fourth annual Casals Festival (so named after cellist Pau Casals) in June, 1959 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, the performance specifically of "A Hymn for the Madonna" by Domenico Scarlatti, the manuscript for which has just been rediscovered, this to be only the second performance of such since this rediscovery.