Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Canadian Cinema, Ephemeral Cinema -- 1 Early Quebec Actualities and the Ephemeral Meaning of Moving Images in the Transitional Era -- 2 Canada's Lost Frontier Epic: The Stillborn Saga of Policing the Plains -- 3 Uncovering Canada's Amateur Film Tradition: Leslie Thatcher's Films and Contexts -- 4 "Mental Prophylaxis": Crawley Films, McGraw-Hill Educational Films, and Orphan Cinema -- 5 A Thrill Every Minute!": Travel-Adventure Film Lectures in the Post-War Era -- 6 "Versions, Revisions, and Adaptations": Film Production in Two Languages at the National Film Board -- 7 Breaking New Ground: Canada's First Found-Footage Films -- 8 Unfinished Films and Posthumous Cinema: Charles Gagnon's R69 and Joyce Wieland's Wendy and Joyce -- 9 Tiger Child: IMAX and Donald Brittain Times Nine -- 10 Ephemeral Godard: Video, History, and Quebec -- 11 Out Here: Feeling Bad, Feeling Gay in Michel Audy's Luc ou la part des choses and Crever à vingt ans -- 12 Against Ephemerality: The CBC's Archival Turn, 1989-96 -- 13 Seeing Then, Hearing Now: Audiovisual Counterpoint at the Intersection of Dual Production Contexts in Larry Kent's Hastings Street -- 14 Preserving Ephemeral Aboriginal Films and Videos: The Archival Practices of Vtape and ISUMATV -- 15 Preserving/Burning: Karl Lemieux's Film Performances -- 16 Films Collecting Dust and Dusty Film Collages: Ephemerality at Work -- 17 Sampling Heritage: The NFB's Digital Archive -- 18 Memory, Magnetic Tape, and Death by Popcorn: The Tragedy of the Winnipeg Jets -- Illustrations -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.