Beryl Fox (partial data)
Country: Canada
Born: 1931
Films directed by Beryl Fox
Quotes by Beryl Fox
"I grew up in a Winnipeg slum. Rats inhabited the plumbing and the cockroaches considered themselves joint tenants. Me, I gazed at the moon and dreamed of being significant. Significance, I assumed, was public recognition, awards and honours, and zero cockroaches. Since then I've achieved a number of my girlhood dreams. For instance, I've been warned by the Pentagon that if I ever returned as a journalist to a battle zone under their control, that I could get accidentally shot by friendly fire. That's public recognition enough for me."
-- Beryl Fox
(source)
"I know that what we've been told we [women] are by movies is a scam. We all know that. We have to create the opportunities to show otherwise. Nobody is going to give that opportunity. You can't do it alone. Having women partners is such a good way to go about it. This is such baloney about women not bonding. We work beautifully together."
-- Beryl Fox
(source)
"Nobody would let me direct a television drama. [...] You know, after being the 'pet' of the CBC for many years, nobody would hire me because I was too old, I was 42, 43, and they had training courses for young drama directors, but I could not get in."
-- Beryl Fox
(source)
"The greatest difficulty I had as a woman filmmaker was learning to take command."
-- Beryl Fox
(source)
Quotes about Beryl Fox
"For years one of Canada's most innovative and politically committed documentary filmmakers, Beryl Fox made seminal contributions to the development of television current affairs in the 1960s. She joined the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as a script assistant and researcher, and co-directed her first film in 1962. [...] Although she left the CBC in 1966, she continued to make documentaries for television throughout the seventies, until she began to produce feature fiction films for theatrical markets. Her work is consistently marked by clearly populist sympathies, commitment to social change, and strong liberal feminism."
-- Kay Armatage
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"Miss [Beryl] Fox is an unexpected maker of hard news documentaries. She's a neat young blonde, with only a glint in her eye, a set to her jaw, and the film on the reel to suggest she can do it."
-- Bruce Lawson
(source)
"[Beryl Fox is] one of the most innovative documentary filmmakers, who made seminal contributions to the development of CBC [Canadian Broadcasting Corporation] documentary in the sixties [...]."
-- Peter Morris
(source)
For QUOTES about a specific film by Beryl Fox, please see: The Chief
Summer in Mississippi
The Mills of the Gods: Viet Nam
Youth: In Search of Morality
Last Reflections on a War: Bernard Fall
Notes about Beryl Fox
- Born in Winnipeg.
- Studied History at the University of Toronto (B.A., 1951).
(sources)
Bibliography for
Beryl
Fox
Section 1: Publications by Beryl Fox
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Fox, Beryl. "Bringing It All Back Home."
["From Beryl Fox's October 28, 1983 convocation address to the University of Western Ontario graduating class."]
In Here's Looking at Us: Celebrating Fifty Years of CBC-TV, edited by Stephen Cole, 105. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2002.
Section 2: Publications about Beryl Fox
Brief Sections of Books
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Smith, Sharon. Women Who Make Movies. New York: Hopkinson and Blake, 1975.
(pp. 95-97)
Articles from Newspapers, Magazines, or News Websites
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Corbeil, Carole. "Fox surfaces in films to push woman-power." Interview with Beryl Fox. Globe and Mail, August 19, 1981.
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Hynam, Penelope. "Interview: Beryl Fox with a cameo appearance by Claude Jutra." Interview with Beryl Fox, Claude Jutra. Cinema Canada, April 1981.
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Variety. "'7-Days' crew looking for other jobs as CBC delays renewal nod." Variety, June 22, 1966.
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Variety. "'7 Days' resignations leave CBC with holes in its pubaffairs sked." Variety, July 20, 1966.
Web Sites
Section 3: Publications about the Films of Beryl Fox
Articles from Newspapers, Magazines, or News Websites
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Variety. "The Mood of the South." Review of One More River (A Report on the Mood of the South Nine Years After the Supreme Court Ordered Integration with All Deliberate Speed). Variety, May 8, 1963.
Book Chapters
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Rosenthal, Alan. "The Mills of the Gods: Vietnam."
Interview with Beryl Fox.
In The Documentary Conscience: A Casebook in Film Making, 227-231. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980.
Brief Sections of Books
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Koch, Eric. Inside Seven Days: The Show That Shook the Nation. Scarborough, Ont.: Prentice-Hall Canada, 1986.
(pp. 100-101)
Articles from Newspapers, Magazines, or News Websites
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Canadian Press. "Beryl Fox production wins top film award." Globe and Mail, May 7, 1966.
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Gould, Jack. "Canada brings style to news." New York Times, January 30, 1966.
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Lawson, Bruce. "Woman film director records war's horror." Globe and Mail, December 4, 1965.
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Variety. "The Mills of the Gods." Review of The Mills of the Gods: Viet Nam. Variety, December 22, 1965.
Articles from Newspapers, Magazines, or News Websites
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Adilman, Sid. "Bedroom scene with cast of 3 stirs new tempest in Canada." Variety, May 11, 1966.
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Globe and Mail. "No charges laid in case of girl filmed by CBC." Globe and Mail, May 12, 1966.
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Globe and Mail. "Yes, girl filmed in bed with two youths, Fox says." Globe and Mail, May 3, 1966.
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Toronto Star. "Youth and sex film candid, meandering." Review of Youth: In Search of Morality. Toronto Star, May 30, 1966.
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Variety. "CBC prod.'s boudoir caper sparks flock of libel suits; Cops shy away." Variety, May 18, 1966.
Saigon
(1967) (also known as:
"Saigon: Portrait of a City")
Articles from Newspapers, Magazines, or News Websites
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Globe and Mail. "To film documentary: Beryl Fox to Vietnam for CBS." Globe and Mail, September 2, 1966.
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Variety. "Canada's Beryl Fox to Vietnam for CBS." Variety, September 7, 1966.
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Variety. "Saigon." Review of Saigon. Variety, March 22, 1967.
Articles from Newspapers, Magazines, or News Websites
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Millin, Leslie. "In glorious color: Horror of the Vietnam war." Review of Last Reflections on a War: Bernard Fall. Globe and Mail, March 4, 1968.
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Variety. "PBL Sets Bernard Fall 'Last Reflections on War'." Variety, March 6, 1968.
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