On All Fronts: World War II and the NFB is the result of the teamwork of many people inside and outside the NFB:

NFB project management

Stéphanie Barker, head, Partnerships
Vicki Lainesse, project manager, online content

Working committee

Don Bidd, librarian
Doris Bien-Aimé, coordinator, thematic Web sites
Nina Hopkins Butlin, librarian
Martin Delisle, project manager
Hélène Di Pinto, coordinator, Memory Fund content
Yvon Larocque, archives technician
Albert Ohayon, collection analyst
Frédéric Ouellet, archives technician
James Roberts, assistant director, Distribution

Web site design

Jean-François Petit, information architecture and interactivity, Idéactif Conseil inc., (“See everything, hear everything” section and screening module for clips in the various sections)
Érika Robert, head of information architecture and interactivity, Studio Take Out interactif inc.

 Web site graphic design

François Turcotte, designer, Turcotte Design

Web site programming and integration

Michel Gratton, programmer-integrator, Infinit Design

Web site integration and advice

Jean-François Côté, technical coordinator (senior integrator-programmer)

Web analyses and usability testing

Anne Jarry, consultant on people living with a visual disability
Richard McNicoll, consultant on people living with a hearing disability

Film selection

Albert Ohayon, collection analyst

Selection of documentary excerpts

Don Bidd, librarian
Nina Hopkins Butlin, librarian
Hélène Di Pinto, coordinator, Memory Fund content
Yvon Larocque, archives technician
Albert Ohayon, collection analyst

Video excerpt grab
Doris Bien-Aimé, coordinator, thematic Web sites
Sébastien Simard-Elliott, customer service agent

NFB research and content

Nina Hopkins Butlin, librarian
Hélène Di Pinto, coordinator, Memory Fund content
Yvon Larocque, archives technician
Philip Lewis, writer
Albert Ohayon, collection analyst

Complementary NFB resource research and identification of keywords

Don Bidd, librarian
Hélène Di Pinto, coordinator, Memory Fund content
Katherine Kasirer, librarian
Christiane Talbot, librarian

Glossary

Don Bidd, librarian
Hélène Di Pinto, coordinator, Memory Fund content

Commissioning editors

Doris Bien-Aimé, coordinator, thematic Web sites
Martin Delisle, project manager

Writers (external)

Terry Copp
Jack L. Granatstein
Randall Hansen
Desmond Morton
Ruth Roach Pierson
Catherine Saouter
Thomas Socknat

Interviews and editing of interviews with experts, vox populi

Themes and vox populi:

Éric Barbeau
Jean-Paul Bataille
Alison Burns
David Gascon
Sandra Gibbs
Maureen Grant
Nicolina Lanni
Martin Lebel

Interviewees

Harry C. Campbell
Jacques Lacoursière

Vox populi:

Montreal
Tara Arnst
Daniel Atangana
Lucien Bélanger
Fatoumata Diané
Lise Guay
Claire Heenan
Pascale Lacombe
Nicolas Leclair-Dufour
Anaïs Pinaton
Shun Rao
Marie Rousseau

Toronto
Brandi Borsten
Dhrity Chakraborty
Avijit Choudhury
Dejan Graovac
Crystine Hershberger
Kevin Myles
Baber Nasir
Steven Todd
Justin Trottier
Emi Yano

Vancouver
Leslie Benisz
René Doucet
Doug Falbo
Tove Fenger
James Flack
Lorraine Fortin
Ian Gladman
Michelle Gobeil
Craig Holzschuh
Miles Meadows
Jean-François Packwood
Robert Teszka
Amy Walsh
Peter Wenk

Educational content

Michael K. Barbour
Jean-Claude Bergeron
Nina Hopkins Butlin, librarian
Hélène Di Pinto, coordinator, Memory Fund content

Linda McDonald
Tom Morton
Patience Pederson
Catherine Philipps
Nancy Robb

Workshop template written by

Stéphanie Barker, head, Partnerships
Ève Duchesne, external consultant, template reviser
Linda Lee, communications officer
Gilles Roy, team leader, customer services

Research, preparation of photographs, images, other archives

Yvon Larocque, archives technician
Claude Lord, senior photo library technician
Vital Milette, sound library technician
Sophie Quevillon, photo library technician

Database structure

Philippe Chartrand, systems analyst
Marc Lavallée, Synchrone analyst-programmer

Data entry

Doris Bien-Aimé, coordinator, thematic Web sites

NFB rights clearance

Dominique Aubry, assistant director, Business Affairs and Legal Services
Pascale Bilodeau, copyright clearance agent
Hélène Dubé, copyright and contract administrator
Peter Kallianiotis, legal counsel
Saskia Latendresse, senior rights clerk
Brent McColl, agent, copyrights clearance
Émilie Nguyen, administrative assistant
Christine Ouellet, paralegal, intellectual property
Christian Pitchen, legal advisor
Linda Smith, manager, staff relations
Caroline Trudeau, copyrights clearance agent

Online film rights

Artist and artisan associations:
American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada (AFM)
Société Professionnelle des Auteurs et Compositeurs du Québec (SPACQ)
Writers Guild of Canada (WGC)

Translation and editing coordinators

Doris Bien-Aimé, coordinator, thematic Web sites
Julie Huguet, head, Publishing Services
Johanne Summerside, coordinator, Publishing Services

Translation

Cecilia Grayson, translator
Sylvie Prieur, translator

Editing

Nancy Barr, editor (English)
Louise Malette, editor (French)

Digitization and encoding of audiovisual content

Claude Brien, head, Technical and Artistic Resources 2
Denis Cerminaro, technology applications technician, digital vault
Glenn Clemente, technician, digital vault
Étienne Dallaire, technician, digital vault
Pierre Ferlatte, head, Coordination and Project Support
Jimmy Fournier, computer engineer
Marysol Moran, technical coordinator
Mathieu Sheehy, computer engineer
André Solat, technician, digital vault
Natalie Tessier, coordinator, digital vault

Transfer of film documents to video

Chantale Gagné, technician-colourist, Telecinema
Richard Lanoue, technician-colourist, Telecinema
Aldo La Ricca, technician-colourist, Telecinema

Materials

Richard Cournoyer, supervisor, vaults and laboratories
Sylvain Desbiens, coordinator, technical resources - reception
Louis Dupuis, coordinator, technical resources - reception
Micheline Faubert, project technical coordinator
Steve Hallé, technical coordinator

Administration

Thérèse Hérard, administrator, partnership projects
Johanne Lessard, financial advisor, recovery services
Lucie Painchaud, chief, Financial Operations

Descriptive audio

Emily Harding, AudioVision Canada, chosen by the NFB to produce descriptive audio for a selection of NFB films.

NFB
André Gagnon, head, Tech and Artistic Resources section 1, quality control (sound)
Pierre Ferlatte, head, Coordination and Project Support
Steve Hallé, technical coordinator
Albert Ohayon, collection analyst, quality control (content)
Sébastien Simard-Elliott, customer service agent, quality control (content)
Hilary Thomson, archival and sound synchro technician, quality control (sound)

French subtitling for five films, twelve film clips and four interview clips

Flora Balzano, translator, subtitles of interview and film clips
Claude Dionne, film subtitles
Christine Lapierre, translator, subtitles of film clips
Hélène Laporte, transcription of interview clips
Zoé-Andrée Major, film subtitles
Alexandre Sirois, editor, editing of subtitled film clips

NFB (preparation of material, films and interviews)

Richard Cournoyer, supervisor, vaults and laboratories
Micheline Faubert, project technical coordinator
Pierre Ferlatte, head, Coordination and Project Support
Denis Gathelier, online editor
Serge Gaudreau, infographist, digital imaging
Suzanne Guévremont, assistant, sales
Françoise Laprise, project technical coordinator
Denise Provost, senior technician, quality control

Preparation of promotional material

Julie Huguet, head, Publishing Services
Martin Lamothe, Ekorce atelier créatif
Linda Lee, communications officer
Grace Marzella, graphic designer

Special thanks

Carl Murray, le Cercle de la Garnison, Quebec City

We would also like to thank the following partners: The Canadian War Museum (

www.warmuseum.ca), the National Gallery of Canada (www.gallery.ca) and Library and Archives Canada (www.collectionscanada.gc.ca). They generously allowed us to use items from their collections (photographs, posters, clips from news bulletins, etc.) for the site.

Support for On All Fronts: World War II and the NFB was provided by the Department of Canadian Heritage through Canadian Culture Online. This co-operation enables the NFB to pursue its mandate to extend access to its films to all Canadians.

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