17. Chronicling a National History: Hye Bossin’s Canadian Film Weekly and Year Book
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Abstract
Canada's motion picture history began outside Canada, " Hye Bossin (1906-64) stated in a foundational primer on the subject. 1 That statement is as true for today's historians of the Canadian film industry as it was when Bossin published a chronicle of the nation's film history in the first Year Book of the Canadian Motion Picture Industry (1951-70).The effort was an offshoot of Canadian Film Weekly (1942-70), one of Canada's two pioneering film trade publications.Film Weekly later incorporated its rival, Canadian Moving Picture Digest (1917-57), bringing both branches of Canadian film trade press under a single umbrella, edited by Bossin.For too long, Canadian Film Weekly and Canadian Moving Picture Digest remained stranded outside the Media History Digital Library (MHDL).Earliest editions were not collected by Canadian libraries in the first place, and microfilmed copies of early volumes relied upon orphaned issues archived in the New York Public Library.These copies were digitized in 2015 and deposited to HathiTrust via Google Books.For almost a decade they have been available to researchers in the United States, but, in a cruel paradox, they are geo-blocked from access by researchers in Canada in an overreach of copyright precaution.The global task force of the MHDL has thankfully liberated some of those volumes and we have recently digitized several privately held partial collections.Thankfully, the Canadian branch of the MHDL is no longer only a hypothetical entity.Nonetheless, relying on US institutions to tell our own stories is a lamentably familiar tale. 2 As I have argued elsewhere, Hollywood consistently viewed Canada as just another US regional exchange territory, treating Toronto the same as Cleveland or Dallas.3 Routines in film distribution followed established circuits for stage, vaudeville, and music, which integrated Canadian theaters into US
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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) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.014 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.079 | 0.010 |
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".