Lest We Forget (1935)

Directed by

Frank Badgley, W.W. Murray

Genre

documentary film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 52m

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary covers Canada's involvement in the First World War. It uses newsreel footage, graphics, and staged scenes to tell the story.

informativepatrioticfast-pacednostalgichistoricalearnestformal

What happens

Lest We Forget (1935) was the first feature-length documentary film with sound to be made in Canada. Written, directed and edited by Frank Badgley, who was then the Director of the Canadian Government Motion Picture Bureau, and W.W. Murray, with music by Edmund Sanborn and narrated by Rupert Caplan. A compilation, 10-reel film (using newsreel footage, graphics and staged sequences) recounting Canada’s role in the First World War, it is fast-paced and has a verbose narration but was well received by critics and audiences at the time. The Bureau was the precursor to the National Film Board of Canada. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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