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Decades back MOTION magazine was originated, edited and published by PETER EVANCHUCK with the invaluable assistance of James McLarty, Grant Patterson, Claudia Wittgens, Graeme Box and Anika Turk - MOTION covered exclusively CANADIAN FILM, THEATRE and TV and for almost ten years was and perhaps still is the only publication of its sort. Evanchuck, now in his elder years, intends to gather all issues, scan them and make them avialable to all interested persons - MOTION is a vital part of Canada's History and shouldn't be forgotten, Stay tuned.... more coming sooner than later...

BELOW is a taste of what each issue contains and a short excerpt from these historic articles::

Wednesday 30 January 2013

Thursday 8 December 2011

MOTION MAGAZINE Vol.7 #2 1978

In this issue  :  Michael MacLear's CTV REPORT  :  Director Les Rose's first feature film '3 Card Monte'  :  Filmaker Ciccoriti tells all on 'The Small Picture Show'  :  Notes on Solzhenitsyn Show  :  Soviet Film Week  :  The Toronto Super 8 film Festival  : Robin Spry's 'One Man'  :  Peter Wronski's first feature film 'Fast Company'  :  A Brief note on Gladiators (Montreal vs Toronto)  :  Producing a Penguin  :  A Short Case (tell all for short film makers)  :  Coe Hoederman's 'Dutch Treat'  :  A Canadian in Cannes  :  The Reel Truth Part 1 & 2  :  Book Shelf  :  Show Bits



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MOTION MAGAZINE Vol.7 #1 1978

In this issue:  Genevieve Bujold & Claude Lelouch in Hollywood talk about 'Another Man, Another Chance'  :  Cannes at 31  :  Canadian Actress Carol Lazare  :  Getting the Picture ( low down on camera work)  :  I Maureen, Behind a Title (a new team emerges on the Toronto scene)  :  Some Blood, Some Guts (words from the upper echelons)  :  Still Moving ( discussion with cameraman John Philips)  :  The New Wave ( Heavy weights at Academy Awards were NFB's new Directors)  :  The Missing Link  ( Toronto's new super shooting stage )  :  Money Cooperation ( Film Co-Op's Bill Boyle sums up where the money is )  :  Theater Scene ( The schlock at the Shaw Festival )  :  Show Bits  :  Show Pix ( Highlights in what's happening in pictures )  :  Super 8 ( news about optics & stock )

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MOTION MAGAZINE Vol.6 #4-5 1977

In This Issue  :  Werner Nold ( Editing the Olympic Film )  :  The Electronic Slice ( the new ENG )  :  Style ( The Documentary Film Editor - Piecing Together Truth )  :  Yves Dion ( interview with a film editor )  :  Stan Cole Hot Splicer  :  The Post House ( Editing in Vancouver )  :  Sound Opportunity  ( insight on sound editing )  :  Collision Course ( Notes on Outrageous )  :  Back Talk with Davis Cronenberg  :  Interview with Robin Spry  :  Lunchtime Madness ( A Look at  Bob McLean )  :  Animated Thoughts ( Animation in Canada Today)  :  On The Set of  'Silent Partners'  Garth Drabinsky's second feature film  :  Festival by Ron Mann ( A look at Film Festivals )  :  Entre L'Art ( Neuvieme Festival du Film Etudiant Canadien)  :  Free, Not Easy ( The Evolution of a West Coast Freelancer - Ron Orieux )  :  Finally a Feature from B.C. 'Sip Tracer' by Director Zale Dalen  :  10 Days To Show The  World ( at the 1977 Festival of Festivals )  :  Bilan D'Ottawa  '77 by Martin Delisle ( Festival International du Film D'Ottawa )  :  1977 Canadian Film Awards  :  Theater Scene ( A Year in Review )  :  Metal Messiah ( cover story - Stephen Zoller - writer/co-producer )  :  Super 8 Notes ( Single-System Sound )  :  From Our Readers  :  Show Bits  :  Canadian Film View  :

MOTION MAGAZINE Vol.6 #3 1977

In This Issue  :  The Unions  :  Confrontation ( Uneasy situation for working foreign actors )  :  The Immigration Delimma  :  A Case In Point ( an overview with Barbara Hamilton )  :  Canadian Actors are 2nd Class Actors  :  Kickbacks & G-Strings ( Equity in Theater )  :  The Pen Is Mightier Than The Sword ( but only after the contract has been signed )  :  IATSE'S Parallax View  :  Waiting Game  :  NABET ( Walking in a Perpetual Shadow )  :  Lloyd Robertson Joins CTV (News Team Over Union Limitations )  :  Should We or Shouldn't We ( An Animators' Union )  :  On Location with 'Days Of Heaven'  : You'll Never Miss It ( Barry Manillow Soundtract )  :  Cinepix, Cannes & Ilsa ( Movies Made in Montreal )  :  A Super 8 Festival  & Super 8 Notes  :  About Co-Productions ( Producer Deanne Judson of 'Ragtime Summer' )  :  The Wizard Workshop ( Mordecai Richler's Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang )  :  How Awful is Awful ( Coming to terms with lousy movies )  :  It's Technical  (Multi-Layer Coating System and What Does it Mean to Cameramen )  :  From Our Readers  :  Classifieds  :  Show Bits


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MOTION MAGAZINE Vol.5 #5 1976

In This Issue :  The 1976 Canadian Film Awards :  Conversation with Vic Beattie  :  C.F.D.C ( The Canadian Filmakers Distribution Center )  :  Faroun and Friend  :  Mickey Stevenson Talks  :  And In This Corner   ( New Cinema Enterprises Corp - Distributor  Linda Beath )  :  Realities  ( Getting Distribution in the States )  :  Distribution of Eliza's Horoscope  :  Beginners Luck  :  Distribute Yourself in Twenty-Five Steps Or Less  :  Second Chance  ( Film Distribution in the West Coast )  :  Critics May Scoff  ( Ivan Reitman's Take on Horror Movies )  :  South Of The Border ( Distribution of Canadian Movies In The USA )  :  Beaver And Eagle ( The Audience & The Box Office )  :  Sudden Furry  :  Quickies A La Canadienne  :  CKVU $1,000,000 Toy ? ( The Vancouver Show )  :  Impressions of Ottawa 76 ( Filmexpo )  :  Survey of Film Schools ( Simon Fraser )  :  Canadian Filmview  :  From Our Readers  :  Classifieds  

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MOTION MAGAZINE Vol.5 #4 1976

In This Issue  :  Cooking Up Initiative ( Celebrity Cooks on CBC )  :  Peter Pearson ( Filmaker - Director - Writer )  :  Recontre Avec Gilles Carle  :  La Tete De Gilles Carle  :  Jan Kadar  ( Making 'Lies My Father Told Me' )  :  Super 8 In The Schools  :  On Location With GoldenRod   :  Native Reaction ( Sam Hardlotte 'Challenge For Change' )  :  Theater Scene ( Peter Shaffer's 'Equus' )  :  Survey Of Film Schools ( Sheridan College )  :  Survey Of Film Schools ( York University )  :  Super 8 Notes  :  Classifieds  

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MOTION MAGAZINE Vol.5 #3 1976


In This Issue  :  Council Of Canadian Filmakers Presents Petition To Parliament  :  Strathford Film Festival '76  :  NFB Remembers ( Donald Brittain - Grant Munro - Yves Leduc - Antonio Vielfaure )  :  Mime ( Jiri Stanislav In Ottawa )  :  The Silhouette Films of Bryant Fryer ( Forgotten Animator )  :  The Years Of Hope by Peter Harcourt  :  Those Were The Days ( Interview With Roy Tash CSC )  :  On Location With 'Why Shoot The Teacher'  :  Walt Disney's Canadian Films  :  Profile ( Gerard Parkes )  :  It's Technical  :  From Our Readers  :  IMAX Phenomenon To Feature  :  Riots To Racing ( Stephen Franklin's 'Knowledge Park' )  :  Canada At The Cannes Film Festival  :  Canadian Filmview  :  Classifieds

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MOTION MAGAZINE Vol.5 #2 1976

In This Issue  :  Prelude To Cannes  :  The Pioneer Spirit ( Canada's Nielsen-Ferns Ltd. )  :  Take The Money And Run  :  The Understudy ( First Feature From Paul Shapiro )  :  Budge Crawley ( The Man Who Skied Down Everest Academy Award Winner )  :  Canadian Filmview  :  Knee Deep In Canada ( Interview With Tom Shandel )  :  Limping Home - 4th Canadian Film Symposium  :  Sound Design  :  The Far Shore ( Joyce Weiland Talks About Her Feature Film )  :  A View Of Us ( Ernest Borgnine )  :  It's Technical  :  Super 8 Notes  :  A Mirror For Canadians ( Interview With Andre Lamy )  :  Survey Of Film Schools ( Queen's University )  :  Motion Magazine's First Film Awards For Young Filmakers  :  Show Bits  :   The Actra Affair  :  From Our Readers 

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MOTION MAGAZINE Vol.5 #1 1976

In This Issue  :  Quinn Labs Mirrophonic Sound  :  Norman McLaren's Secret Thoughts  :  The Virgin Islands International Film Festival  :  The Roller Coaster Ride ( Ross McLean's Contribution to Broadcasting )  :  Promote Or Perish  :  Breathing Heavy ( Interview With Don Shebib )  :  Second Fiddle ( Interview With Peter Pearson )  :  Cold Journey ( Le Conflit D'Un Jeune Ameridien )  :  Home Movies  :  The Past, The Present And The Future ( Eliza's Horoscope's Editor Marguerite Corriveau )  :  Cinderella Story ( Fran & Gunter Henning Documentaries in Manitoba )  :  Clay Borris is Putting Cabbagetown on Film ( Toronto's 25 yr Old Filmaker )  :  Lies My Father Told Me ( Canadian Culture At It's Best )  :  Taking Chances ( Al Brown's Documentary on Sculptor Elizabeth Williamson )  :  Survey of Film Schools ( Algonquin College )  :  Book Shelf  :  Canadian Film Views  :  A View of Us ( American Actor Cliff Robertson on Canada )  :  Vancouver  :  From Our Readers  :  It's Technical  :  Super 8 Notes  :  Show Bits  :  A Modern Scripture ( Interview With Director Gordon Sheppard )  :  Classifieds

articles by:  Denise Romberg, James McLarty, Claudia Wittgens, Michael Ryval, Robert Hookey, P.M.Evanchuck, Martin Delisle, Rory Runnells, Betty Jane Wylie, James Forester, Myron Kowalchuk, Michael Rhodes, Nat Shuster, Edward Farrar, Les Wedman, Beverly Ensom


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MOTION MAGAZINE Jan- March 1975

In This Issue  :  Janis The Way She Was ( Producer Budge Crawley talks about the making of 'Janis' )  :  In Conversation with Larry D. Mann  :  Michel Brault ( Interview & Filmography )  :  Pacificanada ( The Elusive Canadian Culture )  :  Book Shelf  :  It's Technical  :  Canadian Film At Filmexpo ( Ottawa's 3rd Film Festival )  :  Canada In Belgium ( 5th International Experimental Film Festival )  :  Filming Isn't Writing ( Brault's Cinema Direct )  :  L'Aventure Du Cinema Direct et Les Ordres  :  Spry & Brault ( Deux Facons De Montrer La Crise D'Octobre 1970 )  :  Robin Spry ( Filmography & The October Crisis )  :  Vancouver Scene  :  Calgary Round-Up  :  Canadian Filmview  :  A Better Fate ( Loving Our Theater )  :  Ottawa Mentions  :  Show Bits  :  Classifieds

articles by:  Jan ice Atnikov, Anne M. Evanchuck, Nancy Borsa, Michael Rhodes, Tom Hilliard, Ian McBride, Richard Plantagenet, Anthony Maulucci, Jean Pierre Begin, Martin Delisle, P.M.Evanchuck, Marta Farevaag, Mary M.Oman, Nat Shuster, Lynn Slotkin, Tony Lofaro


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MOTION MAGAZINE Jan - Feb 1974

In This Issue :  The First Human Face On Canadian TV ( Percy Saltzman Host Of Canada AM )  :  The 3rd International Festival of Cinema in 16mm  :  Showbits  :  Directions ( The Directors Guild )  :  Introduction to Portrait of Some French Canadian Filmmakers  :  Time's On My Side ( A Look at Luce Guilbeault )  :  Soundman ( Film Director and Sound Engineer Marcel Carriere )  :  Life As A Dream - Film As Reality ( Young Quebec Filmmaker Mireille Dansereau )  :  The Pilons - Canada's Answer to Matinee Idols ( Brother Actors Danielle & Donald Pilon )  :  The Sense Of Comedy ( Talk With Director Denis Heroux )  :  Labreque - An Image ( Interview With Director& Cameraman Jean-Claude Labreque )  :  The Champagne of Script Assistants ( Canada's Most Competent Script Assistant )  :  Life Times Nine ( Teen Short Film Festival )  :  Claude Jutra - Filmmaker ( Interview with Director Claude Jutra )  :  I Want It All ( Interview With Genevieve Bujold )  :  Vancouver Film Scene  :  Cine Bookshelf  :  It's Technical  :  Canadian Filmviews  :  From Our Readers  :  More Energy Please ( The Energy Crisis In Theater )  Ottawa Experiment ( Univeristy of Ottawa's Experiment in Theater )  :  Theater Scene ( Vancouver )  :  A View Of Us ( Keir Dullea's Take on Working in Film In Canada )

articles by:  Peter Melnychuk , Alexander Hausvater, Evelyn McCartney, P. M.Evanchuck, James McLarty, Claudia Wittgens, Joseph Heald, David Beard, Nat Shuster, Robin Dorrell, Gareth Sirotnik


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MOTION MAGAZINE Vol.4 #4 1974

In This Issue  :  Presence Canadienne a Filmexpo  :  Film Expo in Ottawa  :  Film Awards '75  :  From '49 Til Now ( Listing Of All Film Awards )  :  It's Technical  :  From Our Readers  :  Do's And Do Not's ( Jobs In Film )  :  Student Films  : Texas Goes Canadian ( Canadian Film Immersion at the Southern Methodist University's Film School )  :  Teaching Video To Children  :  TV In Gaspe ( Television As An Education Tool )  : Big Al ( Al Waxman The King Of Kensington )  :  So You've Graduated  :  Film Schools ( Ryerson )  :  Cannes  :  Keeping The Faith ( After Film School )  :  Training Ground  :  Classifieds 



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MOTION MAGAZINE Vol.4 #3 1974

In This Issue :  Canadian Legend  ( Bill Mason )  :  Man For All Seasons ( Actor Peter Bierman )  :  Love Is All ( A Look At Michel Tremblay's Work )  :  The First Feature Film ( Madeleine De Vercheres )  :  From The Ashes ( Television And John Hirsch )  :  The International Canadian Film Festival ( Results From Ottawa )  :  Pre-Production ( Planning and Procedures )  :  New York ( Romantic & Glamorous Hollywood Design - An Exhibit )  :  What's Up Doc? ( Time With John Horton )  :  Business Hands ( P-F Productions )  :  Show Bits  :  Book Shelf  :  From Our Readers  :  It's Technical  :  Classifieds 

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MOTION MAGAZINE Sept - Oct 1974

In This Issue  :  Vancouver ( ' The Inbreaker ' Opens )  :  Super 8 Feature ( 'The Colossal Agent' )  :  Film And Truth ( 'Montreal Main' and Frank Vitale )  :  ' 125 Rooms ' ( Patrick Loubert's First Feature Film )  :  Synthesis  :  The Film Director As Rex   :  We Pause Now For This Important Announcement  :  Super What? ( The Director Is The Super Star )  :  Extras ( Technique In Handling Extras )  :  Dreamer ( ' A Theater Production Is Like A Collective Dream ')   :  Making 'ME' ( Martin Kinch's Feature Film )  :  Canadian Film Day At The 10th Annual Stratford Film Festival  :  From Our Readers  :  It's Technical  :  Howe To Rock At The NFB ( Director John Howe's Comedy 'Why Rock The Boat ? )  :  On Acting ( 3 Actresses - Patricia Gage, Elizabeth Shepherd and Micheline Lanctot )  :  Canadian Film View  :  Theater Scene  :  A View Of Us ( John Voight's Take On Working In Canada )  :   Book Shelf  :  Fighting Back With The NAC ( Director Jean Roberts Explains )  :  The Forgotten Feature ( The Ontario Motion Picture Bureau's ' Cinderella Of The Farms ' )  


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MOTION MAGAZINE Nov - Dec 1974

In This Issue  :  A View Of Us ( Sam Groom's Take On Working In Canada )  :  FilmExpo ( Film Festival Held At The Town Cinama in Ottawa )  :  The Canadian Writer  :  From Stage To Screen ( Talk With Andrew Angus Dalrymple and Jack Gray )  :  Cloud 'NINE' ( The Writer On Set - Nuisance Or Necessity? )  :  The Writer As Walrus  :  The Collective Writer  :  TV Workshop ( CBC TV Drama  Writer's Workshop )  :  True To Oneself  ( Producer/Writer William Weintraub )  :  Getting There ( Feature Film In Winipeg )  :  Show Bits  :  3 Canadian Views ( Peter Madden, Bryan Wade and Gary Engler )  :  Working Solitary ( West Coast Playwrights )  :  Ottawa Writers  :  It's Technical  :  From Our Readers  :  Book Shelf  : Canadian Filmview  :  10th Annual Strathford Film Festival  :  The International Canadian Amateur Film Festival 


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MOTION MAGAZINE Sept - Oct 1973

In This Issue  :  My Friends Will Tell You I'm Shy ( Interview With Pierre Burton - PART 1 )  :  Yes Virginia They're are Canadians ( List of Famous Canadians Working In TV & Movies )  :  The Outspoken Hector Ross  :  The Adventures of Stuntman ( Perspective From Shelby Gregory )  :  Calgary Wrangler ( Making 'BIG' Pictures In Alberta )  :  Montreal Film Scene  :  On Location - Alert Bay, B.C - With The 'InBreaker '  )  :  A Very Sound Man ( Sound Engineer Bill O'Neil From Quinn Labs )  :  A Total Of One ( Bob Huber's Revue Theater )  :  A View Of Us ( Leonard Frey's View of Working In Canada )  :  Animation Is Alive And Well At Sheridan  :  A National Dream ( CBC's Epic Drama )  :  A Mutual Affair ( Gordon Lightstone Talks About C0-Productions )  :  Would The Real Leonard Maltin Please Stand Up  :  Festivals ( A Brief Report On Canada's Participation In Various World Film Festivals )  :  From Our Readers  :  Canadian Filmview  :  Cine Bookshelf  :  It's Technical  :  Show Bits  :  A History of The Canadian Film Awards ( 1949 - 72 )  :  Montreal Season ( Looking at English Theater )  :  Theater Scene  :  Lennoxville -2 ( Theater Festival )  :  Ottawa The Power Of Positive Thinking ( The National Arts Center )  :  Winnipeg Season ( The Manitoba Theater Center )  :  Flickering Images 


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MOTION MAGAZINE July - August 1973

In This Issue  :  Flickering Images  :  Chief Dan George - More Than An Actor  :  Then Came ( An Interview With Actor Michael Parks )  :  Notes From The N.F.B  :  C'est Ma Vie ( Looking At Olivette Thibault )  :  A Conversation With Roger J. Ross  :  3D ( A New 3-Dimensional Film Camera )  :  The Shaper Of Masks ( The Human Vitality In Theater )  :  It's Technical ( FUMEO Projection )  :  The Comor Touch ( Henry Comor Has Done It All )  :  Canadian Filmview  :   Le Cinema Canadien En Francais  :  Montreal One More Season ( Theatre Du Nouveau Monde )  :  Canadian Clockwork  :  Show Bits  :  A Dilemma No Longer ( New Theater For The Shaw Festival )  :  From Our Readers  :  Notes From Winnipeg On A Sisyphus   

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MOTION MAGAZINE May - June 1973

In This Issue  :  Regina You Say ( Interview With John Vernon )  :  Children, Commercials and The Animators  :  Ukranian Film Producer Walter Wasik  :  The Idea Of Life And Death ( Interview With Quebec Director Francis Mankiewicz )  :  Super 8 Summing Up  :  Television And Super 8  :  It's A Long Way To Paradise ( Distribution In Canada )  :  Captain Kirk Doesn't Live Here Anymore ( William Shatner Star Of Star Trek )  :  70 Days That Shook Their World ( Jack Purchase Wild Canoe Film )  :  Cine Bookshelf  :  Film Reviews  :  More Reviews  :  Le Cinema Canadien En Francais  :  It's Technical  :  Comments  :  Theater Scene  :  Actor's Showcase - Winnipeg ( Tony Pyrdee At the Warehouse Theater )  :  In A Tiny Town ( Theater In Coburg )  :  Show Bits

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MOTION MAGAZINE March - April 1973

In This Issue  :  Arthur  Hill Director :  Oh Canada ( Film Industry Between 1919- 1930 )  :  An Interview With Don Shebib  :  The World According To John Herbert  :  Student Standpoint On Super 8  :  The Great Debate on Super 8  :  It's Only Skin Deep ( A Look At Toronto's Skin Houses )  :  Conversation With Arla Saare ( Female Film Editor )  :  Show Bits  :   Class Of  '73 (A Look At York University's 4th Year Students )  :  Toronto Theater Scene  :  In Halifax With Keith Turnbull At The Second Stage  :  Comments  :  It's Technical  :  Upcoming Film & TV Festivals

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MOTION MAGAZINE Jan - Feb 1973

In This Issue  :  The Sixty Second Feature ( Fritz Spies C.S.C )  :  The International Canadian Amateur Film Festival  :  On Being An Entrepreneur ( Terry Dene Explains )  :  Tracing A visual Career ( Jackson Samuels C.S.C. )  :  Super 8 (The Hardware )  :  The Lab ( More On Super 8 )  :  The Producer ( With Peter Elliot )  :  Flickerings  :  On Location With Don Shebib's ' Surf's Up ' )  :  Conversation With Gordon Sparling  :  Some Casting ( Richard Brook Explains )  :  Three Years Ago ( A Look At Doris Petrie )  :  Toronto Theatre Scene  :  Thunder Bay Goes Gay - 90's That Is  :  Show Bits  :  Comments  :  Asking Motion ( Who Is Robert Christie )


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MOTION MAGAZINE Nov - Dec 1972

In This Issue  :  Conversation With James Beveridge  :  Commercial ( Shooting In Vancouver )  :  Harry Makin ( Cinematographer  :  Statford Film Festival  :  Student Stand Point ( Ryerson Polytechnical Institute )  :  The Canadian Film Awards 1948 - 1972  :  Ernest Shipman ( Canada's First Movie Mogul )  :  John Trent - Director  :  Jack Shapira ( Rainbow Theater )  :  Pier One Theater - Halifax  :  Theater People - The Performers From Fredericton, New Brunswick  :  Flickerings  :  Critiques, Comments & Criticisms  :  You Ask Motion - We Ask The Experts 


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Friday 14 October 2011

editor/publisher PETER EVANCHUCK & HELENE LACELLE bring MOTION magazine back !!

yes MOTION magazine after decades of sleeping like a bear in winter is back on line - all copies of MOTION, about ten years of bi-monthly publications, will be represented on line.

MOTION was the only publication in the world that featured the best stuff in Canadian film/theatre/tv - like innerviews, interviews, feature articles, tid bits and snippets of info past, present and future that lured and fascinated the reader during the 1970's.

Stayed tuned to this blog for ongoing info on the present and future of MOTION magazine