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Beverly Shaffer Fonds

fonds1935-20071070

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Where

Boston, ONCorrect the locationNearby on the big map
Held by
Jewish Public Library Archives via Jewish Public Library Archives
Creator
Shaffer, Beverly, 1945-
Dates
1935-2007 (indexed as 1935–2007)
Level
fonds
Extent
Contains 2.31m of textual records, 1,832 graphic materials (355 photographs, 1,237 slides, and 240 strips of negatives), 125 moving images (53 videotapes, 42 reels, and 30 DVDs), 21 sound recordings (audiocassette tapes), and 17 objects.
Scope & content
The fonds contains materials relating to Beverly Shaffer's filmmaking career spanning from her earlier education through to her retirement, the bulk of which reflect her time as a salaried director with the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), where Shaffer directed documentary films tackling issues like family relationships, women's rights, disability, and abuse. The bulk of the fonds comprises research, correspondence, and other materials like scripts and budgets for potential film projects. Materials from shoots underway--including correspondence, schedules, and other related records--as well as post-production records including press releases and educational materials, can also be found in the fonds. Numerous awards within the fonds, including certificates (textual) and physical awards (objects), reflect Shaffer's successes in film festivals around the world from the 1970s through the 2000s. Notably, a subseries is dedicated to her Oscar win at the 1978 Academy Awards for the Children of Canada series instalment "I'll Find a Way"--including many photographs, newspaper articles, letters of congratulations, and even sound recordings of coworkers' reactions to the win. The fonds contains copies of most of Shaffer's films, mostly as reels and videotapes but including several DVDs. This includes the Children of Jerusalem and Children of Canada series, as well as many other documentary short films directed by Shaffer and footage of several interviews. Numerous photographs of cast and crew during and after filming--in the form of prints, slides, and negatives--can also be found in the fonds.
Places
Jerusalem; Boston; Montreal
Location
  • Boston, ON · city · confidence 90% · city:geonames · found as “Boston”
  • Montréal, QC · city · confidence 90% · city:geonames · found as “Montreal”
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Subjects
National Film Board of Canada; WGBH Educational Foundation; Filmmaking; Feminism; Social issues; Social justice; Film festivals
Genre / form
Textual record; Moving images; Graphic material; Sound recording; Object
Language
ara, arm, chi, dut, English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, por, Russian, Spanish, Yiddish, Polish
Harvested
2026-10-19T03:27:42Z · source datestamp n/a · ead
Original metadata as harvested (ead)