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Stanley Jackson (filmmaker)

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Record label
  
Joha Records, INC.

Albums
  
Entre el Bien & El Mal

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Movies
  
The Days Before Christmas, My Financial Career, The Man Who Wouldn't, Cornet at Night, The Hutterites

Similar
  
Tom Daly, Wolf Koenig, Terence Macartney‑Filgate, Colin Low, Roman Kroitor

Stanley Jackson (born 1914, Winnipeg - d. 4 July 1981, Toronto) was a film director, commentary writer and narrator with the National Film Board of Canada (NFB).

Jackson was a schoolteacher in Toronto and Winnipeg before joining the NFB during World War II. He was the commentary writer and narrator on almost 80 NFB documentaries, creating a characteristic narration style for NFB works of the period. He was described as "irreplaceable" in the field of documentary film commentary writing by Unit B colleague Colin Low. Ironically, Jackson is also credited with helping to break the NFB narration style he helped to create, on Low and producer Tom Daly's 1954 film, Corral:

Gathered around the moviola, the crew watched the film; it was silent, save for the music. "Where's the commentary?" someone asked halfway through. They kept watching. When it was over, Jackson asked them frankly, "What would a commentary do for that?" Low and Daly couldn't help but agree. Corral became the first NFB film without a voiceover track.

Songs

Best ShotEntre el Bien & El Mal · 2015
Mas CanEntre el Bien & El Mal · 2015
Whole Night2016

References

Stanley Jackson (filmmaker) Wikipedia