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1700 films, 1000 people, and 150 clubs: a not-so-Amateur Movie Database
AMDB’s research team also works with librarians, data specialists, and archivists to continuously enhance records in addition to expaning the database. Records are enhanced by adding archival film holdings...
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Blood on the Poplars: ALIEN THUNDER (1974) and the Story of Almighty Voice
The W.O. Mitchell Archives at the University of Calgary hosts numerous drafts of the screenplay, extensive correspondence between Mitchell and director Claude Fournier, and even has a glossy, coil-bound...
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Blood on the Poplars: ALIEN THUNDER (1974) and the Story of Almighty Voice
The film is based on real events in the 1890s, when Kitchi-manito-waya (Almighty Voice), a 20-year old Cree man, was arrested for slaughtering a government cow or steer...
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Blood on the Poplars: ALIEN THUNDER (1974) and the Story of Almighty Voice
In October 1895, a decade later, Almighty Voice was arrested. In some accounts, the cow he slaughtered was the property of nearby settlers, in others it was government property;...
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Blood on the Poplars: ALIEN THUNDER (1974) and the Story of Almighty Voice
Though the Canadian prairies have provided the landscapes for a great many American Westerns, domestic Canadian Westerns are a rare breed indeed.5Alien Thunder is a far cry from...
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Blood on the Poplars: ALIEN THUNDER (1974) and the Story of Almighty Voice
Mitchell’s screenplay provided a sweeping portrait of prairie life in the 1890s, featuring a large, diverse cast of characters (early drafts included Doukhobors and Chinese migrant labourers), an early-narrative...
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