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Canada Vignettes: The Performer

Name: Canada Vignettes: The Performer
Released: April 25 2012, 10:51
Duration: 3 min

Norma Bailey

1978 | 3 min

Home licence (worldwide); Classroom licence (Canada only)
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This short film from the Canada Vignettes series features tenor Roger Doucet singing the Canadian national anthem, O Canada, before a hockey game in the Montreal Forum.

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Credits

director

Norma Bailey
editing

Norma Bailey
producer

Dorothy Courtois
executive producer

Robert Verrall
camera

Wolf Koenig

Barry Perles

Don Virgo
sound

Jean-Guy Normandin

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Thank you so much for this vignette. I have vivid memories of Roger in those days. Nobody sang our anthem the way he could, before, then, or since. He became an icon. I have not been back to my home country, Canada, for some 25 years. This brought a tear to my eye.
rongor, 23 Apr 2013