Citation :
« The young Canadians [at the National Film Board] felt that a quieter, more tentative approach came closer to what they wanted to express in their films. Gudrun Parker, who had been at the Board during the war, led the way with her Listen to the Prairies (1945), a film of observation marked by the slow rhythm of its editing. An indigenous style was about to unfold. »
-- Piers Handling

Source :
HANDLING, Piers. « The National Film Board of Canada: 1939-1959 » , dans Self Portrait: Essays on the Canadian and Quebec Cinemas, sous la direction de Piers Handling et Pierre Véronneau, traduit par Marie-Claude Hecquet et Antoinette Vidal, Ottawa, Canadian Film Institute, 1980. (p. 47)