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'The Paper People' is a Canadian dramatic television film, directed by David Gardner and released in 1967.["The Paper People: pretentious, sickeningly arty-- and boring". 'The Globe and Mail', December 7, 1967.] The first television film ever produced entirely in-house by CBC Television without an outside coproducer,["Paper People: a step up". 'The Globe and Mail', October 7, 1967.] the film centres on Jamie Taylor (Marc Strange), an artist working on a project in which he builds papier-mch models of people and then films the models being set on fire, and Janet Webb (Marigold Charlesworth), a journalist profiling Jamie in a documentary.[ The cast also included Lucy Warner, Kate Reid, Brett Somers and Robin Ward.
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The film was shot in the summer of 1967, in Toronto and Oakville, Ontario.[[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29755758/ "Start on CBC colour feature film"]. 'Ottawa Citizen', August 26, 1967.]
The film aired on December 13, 1967 as an episode of the anthology series 'Festival'.[ It received mixed reviews, with Sheila Keiran of 'The Globe and Mail' panning it as pretentious, arty and boring,][ while Lorne Parton of 'The Province' called it one of the better films to be released in any format, television or theatrical, that year.]["CBC's Paper People pleases". 'The Province', December 16, 1967.] The broadcast sparked some controversy, however, with some commentators stating that the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation should not be investing in films that would clearly only appeal to a limited audience.[[https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/tric/article/view/7274/8333#31 "The Perfection of Gesture: Timothy Findley and Canadian Theatre"]. 'Theatre Research in Canada', Volume 12, Number 1 (Spring 1991).]
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