Gordon Burwash

Gordon Burwash

1913-08-03
66 (1980-02-26)
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Gordon Burwash was a writer and producer, known for The Ernie Game (1967), Farewell Oak Street (1953) and Eye Witness No. 66: Hands Across the Sky (1954).

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Gordon Burwash was a writer and producer, known for The Ernie Game (1967), Farewell Oak Street (1953) and Eye Witness No. 66: Hands Across the Sky (1954).

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The Ernie Game 1968 (5)

This fictional feature follows a twenty-something man who is struggling to define his position in the world in early adulthood. He has left their parents' home but still has not made an home of his own. Our protagonist’s alienation is palpable; for him life is a game, not because he chooses to make it so, but because he is unable to make anything more of it. But for those who befriend him and eventually turn him loose again, his game is not enough.
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Farewell Oak Street 1953

This documentary presents a before-and-after picture of people in a large-scale public housing project in Toronto. Due to a housing shortage, they were forced to live in squalid, dingy flats and ramshackle dwellings on a crowded street in Regent Park North; now they have access to new, modern housing developments designed to offer them privacy, light and space.
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The World of One in Five 1967

A fifth of Canadians live at the subsistence level. This is a look at that world, where the street is home, and where poor shelter, poor food, poor schools and poor health are the only certainties of life. Children, old people, the sick and the drifters are caught in it. It is a world filmed throughout Canada so that people who are not part of it can see it, think about it, and maybe help to change it. (NFB site)