The Merry-Go-Round

Réalisé par Tanya Ballantyne Tree

Canada, 1966 (documentaire, 23 minutes, noir et blanc, anglais)

Image : © Office national du film du Canada

Description du film [en anglais] :
« What are adolescents saying and doing about sex? To enlarge the discussion and to indicate some directions that bear examination, the film invites comments from Ann Landers, advice columnist, Mary Winspear, school principal, and Albert Ellis, psychotherapist. Between times appear Eric and Jenny, two seventeen-year-olds whose behavior illustrates what the discussion is all about. »
-- National Film Board of Canada (source)

Générique (partiel) :
Scénario :	Tanya Tree
Produit par :	John Kemeny
Interprètes principaux :	Francis Calder, Peter Moss
Images :	Martin Duckworth
Montage images :	Roy Ayton
Musique :	Donald Douglas
Société de production :	National Film Board of Canada / Office national du film du Canada

(sources)

Citation sur The Merry-Go-Round [en anglais]

« The film is topped off by a virtuoso machine-gun montage where the three expert voices, both interdictory and sympathetic, literally cancel each other out. This demolition of the NFB voice-of-God expert voice-over—at long last—is the final signal not only of a new sexual morality but also of a shift in documentary modes. »
-- Thomas Waugh (source)

Bibliographie sur The Merry-Go-Round

Brèves parties de livres

LOW, Brian J. NFB Kids: Portrayals of Children by the National Film Board of Canada 1939-89, Waterloo, Ont., Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2002. [en anglais] (pp. 113-114)
WAUGH, Thomas. The Romance of Transgression in Canada: Queering Sexualities, Nations, Cinemas, Montreal, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006. [en anglais] (pp. 53-54; 56-59)

Sites Web sur The Merry-Go-Round

NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA. « NFB -- The Merry-Go-Round », National Film Board of Canada, http://www3.nfb.ca/collection/films/fiche/?id=10560. [en anglais]