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{{Infobox film
| name =Now - The Peace
| image =Now - The Peace.jpg
| image_size =
| caption =Screenshot of the title frame
| director =[[Stuart Legg]]
| producer = Stuart Legg
| writer = Stuart Legg
| narrator =[[Lorne Greene]]
| starring =
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| studio = [[National Film Board of Canada]]
| distributor = {{plainlist|
* [[United Artists]]
* National Film Board of Canada
}}
| released = {{Film date|1945}}
| runtime = 20 minutes, 38 seconds
| country = Canada
| language = English
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'''''Now — The Peace''''' is a film produced and directed in 1945 by [[Stuart Legg]] for the [[National Film Board of Canada]] series ''[[The World in Action]]'', with unaccredited narration by [[Lorne Greene]]. Over its nearly 21-minute running time, circumstances during the immediate postwar period following the [[World War II|Second World War]], leading to the formation of the [[United Nations]] are discussed.<ref>Chapnick 2005, p. 179.</ref>{{TOC limit|limit=2}}

== Synopsis ==
After the [[World War I|First World War]], the [[League of Nations]] was created, but despite the efforts of leaders such as [[Woodrow Wilson]], the organization failed to ensure world peace. The concept of collective security against attack was thought to be the means to stop wars. The constant conflicts of the 1930s with [[Japanese invasion of Manchuria|Japanese aggression in China]], [[Second Italo-Ethiopian War|Italian invasion of Ethiopia]] and the beginning of the [[Spanish Civil War]] showed how ineffective the League had become.

During the [[World War II|Second World War]], in an attempt to reinvigorate efforts directed to prevent future wars, the "five great powers" met in August and September 1944, at the [[Dumbarton Oaks Conference]], [[Dumbarton Oaks]], [[Washington, D.C.]] The deliberations led to the creation of a new international organization devoted to world peace, the United Nations. One of the aspects of the blueprint that is proposed is for nations to share their abundance of resources for mutual benefit. The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) is created as an international relief agency to help nations in need during the immediate postwar era.

==Cast==
* [[Woodrow Wilson]]
* Julio Alvarez del Vayo, Spanish Foreign Minister

==Production==
Typical of the NFB's wartime and immediate postwar series of documentary short films, ''Now — The Peace'' relied heavily on stock footage, including "enemy footage".<ref>Goetz, William. "The Canadian Wartime Documentary: 'Canada Carries on' and 'The World in Action'. ''Cinema Journal'', 16 (1977), pp. 59–80.</ref> {{#tag:ref|Enemy footage was provided care of the Alien Property Custodian.|group=Note}} The film was similar to ''[[Global Air Routes]]'', as both films were described as "editorials" on screen.<ref>Khouri 2007, p. 164.</ref> Part of the NFB's ''The World In Action'' series of documentary short films, ''Now — The Peace'' was intended to prepare Canadians for a postwar and was produced by the NFB at the suggestion of [[Archibald MacLeish]], then-[[Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs]] for the U.S. government, focusing especially on the formation of the United Nations, the international organization devoted to world peace.<ref>Chapnick [https://books.google.com/books?id=S2DPElbLK5sC&pg=PA179&dq=Now+%E2%80%94+The+Peace+NFB&hl=en&sa=X&ei=nnj_U_qcKcHwgwSokIEo&ved=0CDcQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=Archibald%20MacLeish&f=false 2005, p. 116.]</ref><ref>Gemie et al. 2012, pp. 169–170.</ref>

The narrator in ''Now — The Peace'' was [[Lorne Greene]], known for his work on both radio broadcasts as a news announcer at ''[[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|CBC]]'' as well as narrating many of the earlier ''Canada Carries On'' series.<ref>Bennett 2004, p. 254.</ref> His sonorous recitation led to his nickname, "The Voice of Canada", and when reading grim battle statistics, "The Voice of Doom".<ref>[https://tkmorin.wordpress.com/2013/01/16/bonanzas-canadian-lorne-greene/ "Bonanza's Canadian Lorne Greene."] ''Bite Size Canada''. Retrieved: January 23, 2016.</ref>

==Reception==
''Now — The Peace'' was also produced as ''Voici la paix'', dubbed into French. As part of the NFB's ''[[The World in Action]]'' newsreel series, ''Now — The Peace'' was produced for both the military and the theatrical market. Each film was shown over a six-month period as part of the shorts or newsreel segments in approximately 800 theatres across Canada. The NFB also had an arrangement with [[United Artists]] to ensure that newsreels would get a wider release in North America.<ref name="Ellis">Ellis and McLane 2005, p. 122.</ref>

After the six-month theatrical tour ended, individual films were made available on 16 mm, to schools, libraries, churches and factories, extending the life of these films for another year or two. They were also made available to film libraries operated by university and provincial authorities. Available from the National Film Board either online or as a DVD.<ref name="Ohayon">Ohayon, Albert. [http://blog.nfb.ca/2009/07/13/propaganda-cinema/ "Propaganda cinema at the NFB".] ''National Film Board of Canada'', July 13, 2009. Retrieved: January 23, 2016.</ref>

Historian Malek Khouri analyzed the role of the NFB wartime documentaries with ''Now — The Peace'' characterized as a [[propaganda film]]. "During the early years of the NFB, its creative output was largely informed by the turbulent political and social climate the world was facing. World War II, Communism, unemployment, the role of labour unions, and working conditions were all subjects featured by the NFB during the period from 1939 to 1946".<ref>Khouri 2007, [https://www.amazon.ca/Filming-Politics-Malek-Khouri/dp/1552381994/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1411908975&sr=1-1&keywords=9781552381991 back cover].</ref>

==References==

===Notes===
{{Reflist|group=Note}}

===Citations===
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===Bibliography===
{{Refbegin}}
* Bennett, Linda Greene. ''My Father's Voice: The Biography of Lorne Greene''. Bloomington, Indiana: iUniverse, Inc., 2004. {{ISBN|978-0-595-33283-0}}.
* Chapnick, Adam. ''The Middle Power Project: Canada and the Founding of the United Nations''. Vancouver, British Columbia: UBC Press, 2005. {{ISBN|978-0-7748-1247-4}}.
* Ellis, Jack C. and Betsy A. McLane. ''New History of Documentary Film''. London: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2005. {{ISBN|0-8264-1750-7}}.
* Gemie, Sharif, Laure Humbert and Fiona Reid. ''Outcast Europe: Refugees and Relief Workers in an Era of Total War 1936-48''. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2012. {{ISBN|978-0-4154-0282-8}}.
* Khouri, Malek. ''Filming Politics: Communism and the Portrayal of the Working Class at the National Film Board of Canada, 1939-46.'' Calgary, Alberta, Canada: University of Calgary Press, 2007. {{ISBN|978-1-55238-199-1}}.
{{Refend}}

==External links==
* [http://www.nfb.ca/film/now_the_peace 1945 NFB documentary on Dumbarton Oaks, ''Now - The Peace'']

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