Friendly Interchange

Directed by Alma Duncan

Canada, 1959 (animation, 10 minutes, colour, English)

Film Description:
"Animated from chalk drawings by artist Alma Duncan and filmed by photographer Audrey MacLaren, the short film is about the exchange of goods over the American/Canadian border and the relationship forged and fostered by two trading nations sharing one very long border."
-- Library and Archives Canada (source)

Film Credits (partial):
Produced by:	Audrey McLaren, Alma Duncan
Music:	Frederick Karam
Production Company:	Dunclaren Productions

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Quotes about Friendly Interchange

"In 1951, funded by the steel industry, Dunclaren Productions produced their last film entitled Friendly Interchange. [...] chronicling the trade relationship between Canada and the United States of America between the 18th century and the Cold War period [...]. Alma Duncan included 150 colourful drawings representing the Steep Rock Iron Mine."
-- Jaclyn Meloche (source)

"It took the two women [Alma Duncan and Audrey McLaren] a year to make the 10-minute film [Friendly Interchange], which has 14,500 still pictures they drew and photographed separately."
-- Montreal Gazette (source)

Bibliography for Friendly Interchange

Articles from Newspapers, Magazines, or News Websites

Montreal Gazette. "Ottawa film wins acclaim." Montreal Gazette, March 12, 1964.

Brief Sections of Dissertations

Meloche, Jaclyn. "Braiding the Boundaries: A Dialogical Study of Alma Duncan's Art from the 1940s and 1950s." M.A. diss., Carleton University, 2004. (pp. 75-77)