Quote:
"The young Canadians [at the National Film Board] felt that a quieter, more tentative approach came closer to what they wanted to express in their films. Gudrun Parker, who had been at the Board during the war, led the way with her Listen to the Prairies (1945), a film of observation marked by the slow rhythm of its editing. An indigenous style was about to unfold."
-- Piers Handling

Source:
Handling, Piers. "The National Film Board of Canada: 1939-1959." In Self Portrait: Essays on the Canadian and Quebec Cinemas, edited by Piers Handling and Pierre Véronneau. Translated by Marie-Claude Hecquet and Antoinette Vidal. Ottawa: Canadian Film Institute, 1980. [in French] (p. 47)