Last month, I assembled a YouTube playlist to accompany a  piece I wrote for Newfoundland Quarterly called “Aerial Moving Imagery of Newfoundland and Labrador, 1937-1972“. The subject is niche, but made nicher still by the difficulty of accessing many of the films I write about. Some of this material was already on YouTube, but most of the films came from my personal collection of Newfoundland and Labrador film. Realizing how many of these films are  inaccessible, I thought, why stop with the playlist?

For the time being, I am using my YouTube channel to share films from Newfoundland and Labrador that are shareable. For the most part, those are films released before 1949, films made with public funds, and films that are, to the best of my knowledge, orphaned. There are, of course, many more films from Newfoundland and Labrador that do not belong to these categories. What I share here is not exhaustive. It’s meant to fill a gap for researchers, film enthusiasts, and anyone curious about the visual history of Newfoundland and Labrador.

When possible, I am also adding these films to other, contextual playlists. There are three more in addition to “Aerial Moving Imagery”. “Atlantic Films” compiles films from the St. John’s-based film production company that operated between 1952 and 1966. “Lee Wulff’s Newfoundland and Labrador films” feature the government commissioned work of the American born Wulff (1905-1991). And “Labrador Cinema” is a running playlist meant to accompany the book by me and Morgen Mills. In most of these playlists I also include material shared by other producers like the NFB and CBC. More to come in time.

Right now, “new releases,” such as they are, will come every two weeks or so. Contextual material to follow. Subscribe to the channel to follow along.