For her first few months, Smart was involved in a number of projects and according to Graham McInnes, a fellow NFB colleague, she was considered a "dilettante" who was in the NFB as "a lark" [REF].
Marc St-Pierre, a writer for the NFB, claims that because Smart's wartime films are the ".. only war propaganda films directed by a woman, about women, and speaking directly to women" that they are "firmly feminist" and "constitute a key moment in the history of women and film in Canada".