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John Spotton (January 1, 1927 - March 3, 1991) was a Canadian filmmaker with the National Film Board of Canada.Spotton was a versatile artist whose variously was a director, producer, cinematographer and editor best known for his role in developing Direct Cinema genre of documentary and in the application of those techniques in narrative fiction films, in particular Nobody Waved Good-bye (1964) for which was cinematographer and editor.An early member of the Canadian Society of Cinematographers (CSC), Spotton briefly working as a cameraman for a private company, joined the NFB in 1949 and worked there for the rest of his life with the exception of a two-year period in the 1970s when he worked with Potterton Productions. He was executive director of the NFB's Ontario Centre from 1982 until 1988.He drowned at the age of sixty-four while on vacation in Cuba. The NFB's John Spotton Theatre in Toronto was named for him.
Date Of Birth 1927-01-01 Died 1991-03-03 Place Of Birth Toronto, Ontario, Canada Profession Cinematographer, Producer, Editor
Cinematographer Title Year Status Character Circus World 1974 Documentary short Kainai 1973 Documentary short Pillar of Wisdom 1970 Documentary short Memorandum 1967 Documentary High Steel 1966 Short documentary Ybarra 1966 Two Men of Montreal 1965 Documentary Buster Keaton Rides Again 1965 Documentary Legault's Place 1965 Short documentary Sanchez 1965 The Hutterites 1964 Documentary short Nobody Waved Good-bye 1964 photography Rivera 1964 The Most 1963 Documentary short Runner 1962 Documentary short The Days of Whiskey Gap 1961 Short Circle of the Sun 1961 Short documentary Railroaders: Revised 1960 Short Fishermen 1959 Short documentary Railroaders 1958 Short documentary Treasure of the Forest 1958 Short documentary Log Drive 1958 Short The Man on the Assembly Line 1958 Short Aural Null 1957 Documentary short Battalion Intelligence Section 1957 Short Canadian Profile 1957 Feathers in the Wind 1957 Short The Jet Beacon Let-Down 1957 Short documentary The Standard Range Approach 1957 Short documentary What Do You Think About... Being Different 1957 Short Designed for Living 1956 Short Alcoholism 1955 Documentary short Community Responsibilities 1955 Short Grain Handling in Canada 1955 Short Leaving It to the Experts 1955 Short Aviation Medicine 1954 Short documentary College in the Wilds 1954 Short documentary Eye Witness No. 67 1954 Short documentary Frontier College 1954 Short documentary Javanese Dancing 1954 Short documentary Salt Cod 1954 Short Story of a Newspaper 1954 Short documentary The Doll Factory 1954 Short documentary Forage Harvesting 1953 Documentary short Royal Canadian Ordonance Corps: Field Operations 1953 Documentary short Security Depends on You 1953 Short documentary Surface Silos 1953 Documentary short The Story of Peter and the Potter 1953 Short Eye Witness No. 39 1952 Documentary short Trade Fair 1952 Short documentary Fighting Forest Fires with Hand Tools 1951 Documentary short Sing with the Commodores No. 1 1951 Short Sing with the Commodores No. 2 1951 Short Sing with the Commodores No. 3 1951 Short
Producer Title Year Status Character Village of Idiots 1999 Short producer Constructing Reality: Exploring Media Issues in Documentary - Shaping Reality 1993 Documentary producer Constructing Reality: Exploring Media Issues in Documentary - The Candid Eye? 1993 Documentary producer Constructing Reality: Exploring Media Issues in Documentary - The Politics of Truth 1993 Documentary producer Constructing Reality: Exploring Media Issues in Documentary - Voices of Experience, Voices for Change Part 1 1993 Documentary producer Constructing Reality: Exploring Media Issues in Documentary - Voices of Experience, Voices for Change Part 2. The Poetry of Motion 1993 Documentary producer Constructing Reality: Exploring Media Issues in Documentary - What Is a Documentary? Ways of Storytelling 1993 Documentary producer Peep and the Big Wide World 1988 Short executive producer No Way! Not Me 1987 Documentary short executive producer Dad's House, Mom's House 1985 Documentary executive producer The Hospital 1985 Short producer The Umpire 1985 Short producer Final Offer 1985 TV Movie documentary executive producer Pitchmen 1985 Documentary executive producer Home Feeling: Struggle for a Community 1984 Documentary producer Prisoners of Debt: Inside the Global Banking Crisis 1984 Documentary producer Meet the Martins 1979 Short producer Viking Visitors to North America 1979 Documentary short producer Of Many People 1970 Documentary short producer Pilgrimage 1958 Short producer
Editor Title Year Status Character Of Many People 1970 Documentary short After Eve 1967 Documentary short Memorandum 1967 Documentary The Forest 1966 Short The Long Haul Men 1966 Short documentary Buster Keaton Rides Again 1965 Documentary The Edge of the Barrens 1964 Documentary short Nobody Waved Good-bye 1964 Lonely Boy 1963 Documentary short The Days of Whiskey Gap 1961 Short I Was a Ninety-pound Weakling 1960 Short documentary City Out of Time 1959 Short documentary The Back-breaking Leaf 1959 Short documentary
Director Title Year Status Character A Pinto for the Prince 1979 Documentary short Have I Ever Lied to You Before? 1976 Documentary Activator One 1969 Documentary Memorandum 1967 Documentary Never a Backward Step 1966 Documentary The Forest 1966 Short Buster Keaton Rides Again 1965 Documentary The Railrodder 1965 Short uncredited
Camera Department Title Year Status Character A Day in June 1958 Short cameraman
Thanks Title Year Status Character Donald Brittain: Filmmaker 1995 Documentary acknowledgment The World Is Watching 1988 Documentary thanks
Won Awards Year Award Ceremony Nomination Movie 1966 Canadian Film Award Canadian Film Awards Best General Information Buster Keaton Rides Again (1965) 1966 Lion of San Marco Venice Film Festival Memorandum (1967) 1966 CIDALC Award Venice Film Festival Buster Keaton Rides Again (1965) 1964 Canadian Film Award Canadian Film Awards Best Black-and-White Cinematography (Non-Feature) The Hutterites (1964)
Nominated Awards Year Award Ceremony Nomination Movie 1967 Flaherty Documentary Award BAFTA Awards Buster Keaton Rides Again (1965)
Known for movies Buster Keaton Rides Again (1965) as Cinematographer
Memorandum (1967) as Cinematographer
Nobody Waved Good-bye (1964) as Cinematographer
High Steel (1966) as Cinematographer