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Kay Armatage fonds
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LIfe on This Planet

Life on This Planet: (1982) /010M 16 mm – Negative 1 roll
B2012-0002/011M: 16 mm – cut copy 1 roll
B2012-0002/012M: 16 mm – Sound Track 1 1 roll
B2012-0002/013M: 16 mm – Sound Track 3 – Dialogue 1 roll
B2012-0002/014M: 16 mm - track 2 Special Effects 1 roll

Speak Body

Speak Body (1979) [Abortion]
B2012-0002/001M-/005M: 16 mm, workprints? – #1Bobbe, #2Susan, #3Lisa, #4Janet, #5Marien, 5 rolls
B2012-0002/006M: 16 mm- Narration, 1 roll
B2012-0002/007M: 16mm Cut Copy, 1 roll
B2012-0002/008M: 16 mm Print, 1 roll
B2012-0002/009M: 1 videocassette – ¾” Umatic, 1 video

Artist on Fire

16mm film, original elements – 5 rolls
¼” sound reels – original recordings – 11 reels

Speak Body, Bed and Sofa, Life on This Planet, Storytelling

Speak Body (1979)
-16 mm A&B rolls, colour negatives – 2 rolls

  • 16 mm Optical Track and 1 cassette tape – 1 roll
  • 16 mm Inter-negative Track 4 rolls

Bed and Sofa (1979)

  • 16 mm A&B Negative – 2 rolls
  • 16 mm Optical Track & Magnetic Track – 2 rolls

Life on This Planet (1982)
-16 mm colour negatives – 3 rolls

Storytelling (1983)
-16 mm Optical Track part 1 & 2 – 2 rolls

  • 16 mm A&B rolls, colour negatives Pt. 1 & 2 – 4 rolls

Filmmaking

This series contains the original film elements for several films made by Kay Armatage.
There are also files documenting this facet of her career including correspondence, film proposals, research notes, clippings, grant applications, budget reports, shot lists and scripts. Several files document her films Striptease, Storytelling and Artist on Fire, as well as Prof. Armatage’s attempt at writing and directing a film about Nell Shipman which did not go beyond development.

Photographs in this series include shots taken during the production of several of her films. There is one file documenting the filming of Storytelling which includes shots of Northrop Frye in New York City. There are also three contact sheets by Babette Mangolte taken during the making of Artist on Fire, with views of Joyce Weiland’s Toronto studio and home. The series also contains one file of printing plates used in the creation of publicity material for Prof. Armatage’s early film Jill Johnson, October 1975.

Kay Armatage fonds

  • UTA 1016
  • Fonds
  • 1937-2011

This fonds documents various facets of Prof. Armatage’s career as a filmmaker, senior programmer for the Toronto International Film Festival, and a professor of Cinema Studies and Women’s Studies at the University of Toronto. The academic activity files in Series 1 give an overview of the breadth of her interests, achievements and promotions. Lecture notes and other course materials in Series 2, along with comments on student works found in Series 3, document her teaching role. These will be especially useful to researchers interested in understanding the early beginnings of both women studies and cinema studies and how these developing academic disciplines were being taught to students. Prof. Armatage’s role as a programmer for the Toronto International Film Festival is documented in her extensive notes found in notebooks where she recorded critiques of films she was screening. These are found in Series 4. The extent of her filmmaking is documented in Series 7 and contains preserved original film elements to several of Prof. Armatage’s films, along with a limited amount of related documentation on the making of these films. Unfortunately, this fonds does not contain release prints for these titles.

This fonds has only a small amount of records relating to her published academic works as well as files relating to conferences she organized and associations in which she was active. These can be found in Series 5 and Series 6.

Armatage, Kay