The Promised Land (miniseries)
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| alt_name = Les Brûlés
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| genre = historical drama
| creator =
| developer =
| writer = Bernard Devlin
| director = Bernard Devlin
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| composer = Félix Leclerc
| country = Canada
| language = English
| channel = Radio-Canada
CBC Television
| first_aired = {{Start date|1957|11|15|df=y}}
| last_aired = {{End date|1957}}
| num_seasons = 1
| num_episodes = 8 (French version)
4 (English version)
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| executive_producer =
| producer = Victor Jobin
Léonard Forest
Guy Glover
| editor = Raymond Le Boursier
David Mayerovitch
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| runtime = 30 minutes
| company = National Film Board of Canada
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The Promised Land ({{langx|fr|Les Brûlés}}) is a Canadian historical drama television miniseries by the National Film Board of Canada. It was first broadcast in 1957 on Radio-Canada, then dubbed into English and adapted for broadcast by CBC Television as a four-part series in 1962. The NFB now classifies it as a feature film.{{cite web |title=The Promised Land |url=http://onf-nfb.gc.ca/en/our-collection/?idfilm=10574 |website=onf-nfb.gc.ca |publisher=National Film Board of Canada |access-date=18 February 2023}}
Premise
The series was adapted from the Hervé Biron novel Nuages sur les brûlés concerning the 1930s settlement of Quebec's Abitibi district and the workers who toiled to develop the area during the Great Depression.{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=b8ItAAAAIBAJ&sjid=d54FAAAAIBAJ&pg=7025%2C2712074 | title=(photo) | date=15 September 1962 | newspaper=Montreal Gazette | location=Montreal | page=10 | accessdate=22 April 2012 }} Episodes included music and appearances by folk musician Félix Leclerc. It was broadcast on Radio-Canada as an eight-part series for the network's Panoramique anthology.{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=NoY0AAAAIBAJ&sjid=dKgFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5144%2C2831286 | title=Today's TV previews | newspaper=Montreal Gazette | location=Montreal | page=13 | date=15 November 1957 | accessdate=26 April 2012 }}
The $144,000 production was also released as a 114-minute feature film in 1959 as a condensed version of the television footage.{{cite web | url=http://cinemaquebecois.telequebec.tv/#/Films/122/Clips/394/Default.aspx | title=Les brûlés | publisher=Télé-Québec | accessdate=26 April 2012 | language=French }}{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mJm3jOfv_D8C&pg=PA44 | title=So Close to the State/s: The Emergence of Canadian Feature Film Policy | first=Michael | last=Dorland | publisher=University of Toronto Press | year=1998 | page=44 | isbn=978-0-8020-8043-1 | accessdate=26 April 2012 }}
Scheduling
Les brûlés was first broadcast on Radio-Canada on Fridays at 9 p.m. starting 15 November 1957. The Promised Land adaptation was broadcast as half-hour episodes Sundays at 10:30 p.m. (Eastern) from 16 September to 7 October 1962 on CBC Television.
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|0344631}}
- [http://www.onf-nfb.gc.ca/eng/collection/film/?id=10574 The Promised Land at the National Film Board of Canada]
- {{cite web|url=http://www.film.queensu.ca/CBC/Per.html |first=Blaine |last=Allan |title=The Promised Land |publisher=Queen's University |year=1996 |accessdate=7 May 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100617013844/http://www.film.queensu.ca/CBC/Per.html |archivedate=17 June 2010 }}
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Category:CBC Television original programming
Category:Ici Radio-Canada Télé original programming
Category:National Film Board of Canada series
Category:1957 Canadian television series debuts
Category:1957 Canadian television series endings
Category:1950s Canadian drama television series
Category:Works about human migration
Category:Television series about the history of Canada
Category:Television shows based on Canadian novels
Category:Films set in Abitibi-Témiscamingue
Category:Films produced by Guy Glover