Melburn E. Turner

Melburn E. Turner, an independent filmmaker from London, Ontario, who had already made several short sound films, produced, shot and edited this colour feature film himself, for about five thousand dollars and without public funding. In 1952 he made a second feature film, in French, about the explorer Étienne Brûlé, of which an English version also exists. In 1979 he gave the National Archives in Ottawa the only surviving reel of his 1942 film.

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• CinemaHere Will I NestMelburn E. Turner · 1942Cinema