footage shot specifically for the film that featured a large number of war correspondents. Stage actor Lorne Greene was featured in The Voice of Action. Greene was known for his work on radio broadcasts as a news announcer at CBC, as well as narrating many of the Canada Carries On and The World in Action series, made up mainly of morale-boosting propaganda films. His sonorous recitation and deep baritone voice, led to his nicknames, "The Voice of Canada", "The Voice of Doom" and even, the "Voice-of-God". Reception Headline Hunters was produced in 35 mm for 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 had an arrangement with Famous Players theatres to ensure that Canadians from coast-to-coast could see them, with further distribution by Columbia Pictures. Some films were also sold to individual theatres periodically. Columbia Pictures continued to distribute the series, with France Films handling its French counterpart, En Avant Canada, in Quebec and New Brunswick. 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. A total of 199 films were produced before the series was canceled in 1959. See also The Voice of Action (1942) The War Is Over (1945) List of Allied propaganda films of World War II References Notes Citations Bibliography Bennett, Linda Greene. My Father's Voice: The Biography of Lorne Greene. Bloomington, Indiana: iUniverse, Inc., 2004. . Ellis, Jack C. and Betsy A. McLane. New History of Documentary Film. London: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2005. . Rist, Peter. Guide to the Cinema(s) of Canada. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2001. . External links Watch Headline Hunters at NFB.ca Headline Hunters at the NFB Collections page 1945 films 1945 documentary films Canadian aviation films Canadian black-and-white films Canadian short documentary films Canadian World War II propaganda films Black-and-white documentary films Documentary films about war correspondents English-language Canadian films National Film Board of Canada documentaries War correspondents of World War II World War II naval films Canada Carries On Quebec films Columbia Pictures short films 1940s Canadian films