Broadcasting a Legend: The Canadian TV Miniseries <i>The Arrow</i> (1997)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Avro Arrow, the supersonic jet interceptor designed just outside Toronto to meet Royal Canadian Air Force specifications as the CF-105 but cancelled by Ottawa at the flight-testing stage toward the end of the 1950s, has long occupied a prominent place in the Canadian public imagination. To illustrate this phenomenon, commentators have repeatedly pointed to the range of representational forms, and individual instances therein, through which popular interest in the Arrow has manifested itself: page, stage, screen, and a myriad other means of expression. In doing so, they have often unintentionally signalled that these various manifestations are of equal relevance in demonstrating the impact of the Arrow on the national psyche. Through examining the origin, development, and broadcast aftermath of The Arrow, first aired by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation around forty years after the events described, this article seeks to situate this dramatic miniseries within the long-running controversy surrounding the cancellation of the aircraft, and show how and why it has had a significantly greater impact in shaping popular national awareness of, and empathy for, certain beliefs concerning the nature and meaning of the rise and fall of the Avro Arrow in Canada than any other cultural artifact over the past six decades.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.012 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.030 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".