Toronto offices for the National Film Board of Canada
The National Film Board of Canada (or NFB) is a Canadian public film-making organization organized to both fund and produce films that educate Canadians and promote Canada around the world. Its French-language wing is known as the Office national du film or ONF. The NFB is best known for its documentaries and animatedshort films.
Formed in 1939 and initially run by John Grierson (a specialist in the psychology of propaganda), to create propaganda to garner support for the Second World War. When Norman McLaren joined the organization in 1941, the NFB began production of animation. The NFB proved to be an organization that would give Canada a presence in the film world. The animation section eventually gained distinction, particularly with the pioneering work of Norman McLaren, an internationally recognized experimental filmmaker. The NFB was a pioneer in several novel techniques such as pinscreen animation, but most of the Oscars and many other awards it won were done in traditional cel animation.
While the National Film Board of Canada's Head Office is located in Ottawa, its Operational Headquarters is in Saint-Laurent, now a borough of Montreal, Quebec.
The NFB's Toronto offices have viewing stations in the lobby, where visitors can watch up to 90 minutes of NFB productions, at private digital viewing stations.
NFB contacts newly blind persons to help them with adjustment problems, provides information on services available from governmental and private agencies and on applicable laws and regulations, provides scholarships, and assists blind persons who are the victims of discrimination or whose rights have been denied.
NFB prepares pamphlets and uses public appearances to educate the public to the fact that the blind are normal individuals who can compete on terms of equality with others.
NFB publishes books and pamphlets on various areas of blindness, such as blindness and disorders of the eye, employment, handbooks for college students, a resource guide for parents and educators, and others.
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