Candid Eye


Candid Eye is a Canadian documentary television series which aired on CBC Television in 1958.

Production

This series aired various National Film Board of Canada documentaries such as Blood and Fire, The Back-Breaking Leaf, The Days Before Christmas and Police. The series was filmed with technically advanced portable cameras. Footage relied on observation, with interviews kept to a minimum.
The executive producer of the series for the NFB was Tom Daly.

Scheduling

This half-hour series was broadcast on Sundays at 5:30 p.m. from 26 October to 7 December 1958.

Legacy

Influenced by the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson, the Candid Eye series was one of the NFB's very first experiments in Cinéma vérité and has been credited as helping to inspire the cinema verite documentary movement.