Candid Eye is a Canadian documentary television series which aired on CBC Television in 1958. Production Wolf Koenig, Terence Macartney-Filgate, and Stanley Jackson filmed The Days Before Christmas in December 1957, and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and National Film Board requested six more episodes after seeing it. The Day Before Christmas was later given a release in December 1958, while Blood and Fire aired as the show's first episode on 26 October 1958. Tom Daly served as the executive producer. Multiple names were suggested for the show, including The Roving Eye, but Candid Eye was selected despite fears that it would be confused with Candid Camera. The show was successful and seven additional episodes were requested although they would air under the name Documentary '60 after the CBC asked the NFB to rebrand Candid Eye, Frontiers, and The World in Action into one show. Candid Eye, influenced by the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson was one of the NFB's very first experiments in Cinéma vérité and has been credited as helping to inspire the cinema verite documentary movement. Episodes References Works cited External links Candid Eye at the National Film Board of Canada CBC Television original programming 1950s Canadian documentary television series 1958 Canadian television series debuts 1958 Canadian television series endings Black-and-white Canadian television shows National Film Board of Canada documentary series