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DCHP-2 (Oct 2016)
n. — abbreviation, Administration
the acronym for the National Film Board of Canada.
Type: 1. Origin — Although National Film Board is not Canadian in origin, the abbreviation NFB appears to be. National Film Board has been used as a minority variant to describe the US National Board of Review of Motion Pictures. However, as National Film Board is not the official name of the organization in the US, no such acronym is used for it (the acronym used is NBRMP).
See: National Film Board
Quotations
1946
The NFB office has a large library of 16 mm films, and receives a print of practically every new film made by the board.
1977
Some years ago, Mr. Knelman was asked by the NFB to sit on the committee that would choose Canadian entrants to the Cannes Film Festival.
1982
Others have been contributed by the CBC and Canada's celebrated animation factory, the NFB - the revolutionary "drawing machine" invented by Norman McLaren for painting directly onto film stock, for example.
1996
Directed by Munro Ferguson, the six-minute NFB short offers a whimsical account of the extinction of the dinosaurs.
2008
There's a gratifying degree of CanCon too. This week, while my daughter was home with the flu, I entertained her by digging up my favourite NFB short ever, the Log Driver's Waltz, set to the music of Kate and Anna McGarrigle.