Canadian Movies - Kanada Eiga

Japanese: カナダ映画 - かなだえいが
Canadian Movies - Kanada Eiga

…The motto, “Distance is not an obstacle to culture,” is a defining feature of modern Canadian culture.
[movie]
The most notable feature of Canadian cinema is that, while it has almost no history of feature films, it is the world's most active producer of documentaries. The history of Canadian documentaries began in 1900 when the Canadian Pacific Railway Company established a film division and began making tourist films about Canada (the 1965 short film "Keaton's Trackman," starring Buster Keaton, is a parody of one of those tourist films).

*Some of the terms used in reference to "Canadian films" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…〈距離を文化の障害としない〉との合言葉こそ,現代のカナダ文化の特徴を示している。【大原 祐子】
[映画]
 カナダ映画の最も顕著な特色は,長編劇映画の歴史がほとんどないのに対して,記録映画の製作が世界で最も盛んであるということである。1900年にカナディアン・パシフィック鉄道会社が映画部を設置してカナダの観光映画を製作し始めたときからカナダの記録映画の歴史が始まる(1965年のバスター・キートン主演の短編《キートンの線路工夫》はその観光映画のパロディになっている)。…

※「カナダ映画」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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