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Canadian children not to waste food by imagining they were having a 'friend' — a child refugee — over for a meal with them. McInnes was dubious because he thought this notion would encourage children to eat more instead of less but his "misgivings were without foundation," he later wrote. "She shot the film as planned. Despite the equivocal logic it was an instant and continuing success with children — and with adults."
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In 1944 Parker became the head of the NFB Educational Unit, continuing her focus on children. In the mid-1950s, Parker worked with
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The film educated viewers about maintaining nutrition with wartime shortages and featured a great deal of footage of children. She later worked with Graham McInnes on a film called "A Friend for Supper." According to McInnes the slogan "a friend for supper," was Parker's idea, a way of encouraging
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Canadian documentary over the period." Hammill argues that after the war "Gudrun's seminal work in an observational style was an influence on a whole generation of filmmakers who made it a Canadian genre."
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a young boy must deal with the derision of his classmates after he takes an interest in the local butterfly society. According to
Canadian Studies scholar Judith Hammill, "the subtext has all kinds of implications about the social formation of masculinity."
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was a critical success and earned the NFB an Oscar nomination for best documentary feature. It was also named Film of the Year at the
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