Whistling Smith
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Whistling Smith is a 1975 Canadian short documentary film
about Vancouver
policeman
Sergeant Bernie "Whistling" Smith, directed by Marrin Canell. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short
at the 48th Academy Awards
.
Whistling Smith was produced for the National Film Board’s PacifiCanada
series, which aired on CBC-TV in early 1975. Along with its Oscar nomination, the film won a Canadian Film Award
for Sound Re-Recording.
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
about Vancouver
Vancouver
Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...
policeman
Vancouver Police Department
The Vancouver Police Department is the police force for the City of Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada. It is one of several police departments within the Metro Vancouver Area and is the second largest police force in the province after RCMP "E" Division.VPD was the first Canadian police force...
Sergeant Bernie "Whistling" Smith, directed by Marrin Canell. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short
Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject
This is a list of films by year that have received an Oscar together with the other nominations for best documentary short subject. Following the Academy's practice, the year listed for each film is the year of release: the awards are announced and presented early in the following year.-1940s:*1941...
at the 48th Academy Awards
48th Academy Awards
The 48th Academy Awards were presented March 29, 1976 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, George Segal, Goldie Hawn, and Gene Kelly...
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Whistling Smith was produced for the National Film Board’s PacifiCanada
Pacificanada
Pacificanada is a Canadian documentary television miniseries which aired on CBC Television in 1975.-Premise:This series of National Film Board of Canada productions featured British Columbia life.-Scheduling:...
series, which aired on CBC-TV in early 1975. Along with its Oscar nomination, the film won a Canadian Film Award
Canadian Film Award
The Canadian Film Awards were the leading Canadian cinema awards from 1949 until 1978. These honours were conducted annually except in 1974 when Quebec directors withdrew their participation and prompted a cancellation that year....
for Sound Re-Recording.