Hugh O'Connor Movies

This short documentary offers a look at the life forms on the Queen Elizabeth Islands within the Arctic Circle. Even in this frigid zone of icebergs...

A film showing the new world created by the techniques and processes of the plastics industry. Transmuted from coal, oil or wood, synthetic...

A film by Christopher Chapman, known for his lyrical films of countryside and wilderness. He turns his colour camera on the growing city and there...

Animated short documentary produced by the National Film Board of Canada in 1958, directed by Hugh O’Connor, focusing on school and education...

Birth of a Giant (Naissance d'un géant in French) is a 29-minute 1957 Canadian documentary film, directed by Hugh O'Connor and produced by the...

An exciting exploration of the weather and how man may one day learn to control it. For this film a great deal of extraordinary colour footage of the...

Elevation to the position of Vice-President brings prestige responsibility and freedoms of action, but it also means a shifting of loyalties and the...

This film looks at the formation and forecasting of weather systems and at the effect weather has on individuals in three different Canadian...

In 1967 Canadian filmmaker Hugh O'Connor came with a crew to eastern Kentucky to make a film showing people from all walks of life in the United...

From a sun-drenched bathing beach to an awesome “gamma garden,” this film explores how heat, radio waves, x-rays and gamma rays affect...

This film is centered on a mini-drama in which a successful design engineer encounters many problems when he is promoted to a managerial position....

"Labyrinth" is a groundbreaking multi-screen 45-minute presentation produced for Chamber III of the Labyrinth at Expo 67 in Montreal, using 35 mm and...