Bibliographic record
Abstract
In this capacity, Professor Feldman is conducting a project on The Triumph of Canadian Cinema.Its thesis is that Canadian cinema has moved from a long formative period into an era when this country contributes and will continue to contribute work of genuine worth to the international film and television community.The project will include presentations by key Canadian film and television writers, directors, and producers in a series of four panels complemented by public screenings of key work with the makers in attendance.But there were, at last, films -and this was the exciting part.By the mid-1970s, what was then called The National Film Archive was beginning to strike 16mm distribution prints of classic films.The Canadian Film Institute offered others.The National Film Board began circulating its archival holding.The Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre and similar artist run co-ops provided an outlet for the avant-garde.And there were even those heroic distributors who struck and rented 16mm prints of recent Canadian features.Joyce and I were confident that we were standing on the starting line of a sprint toward international recognition of Canadian films.Our concept of a national cinema was purely quantitative.The many films newly available to us were like so many dots waiting to be connected.Surely, a picture would emerge.We wrote an introduction to Canadian Film Reader and, in that introduction, we saw the future as unfolding in one of three ways.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.013 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.262 | 0.030 |
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".