At a special Academy Awards ceremony in March 1997, a pair of retired National Research Council scientists from Ottawa, Nestor Burtnyk and Marceli Wein, were called to the podium by actor Helen Hunt ...

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In the summer of 1985, a team of young Montreal filmmakers presented their latest creation at a San Francisco festival. The moving six-minute clip, titled Tony de Peltrie, depicts a melancholic ...

With a “To infinity … and beyond!” Toy Story captured the hearts of kids and adults alike when it reached theaters in 1995. But when the movie began production on January 19, 1993, its makers didn’t ...

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