Why this film and why now? Paul’s Christmas 1946 was one of my dad Ross Brioux’s 16mm films I could have transferred and edited anytime. Almost everyone featured in this eight-minute story has passed on. That even includes the young four- or five-year-old who is the main focus – Paul Morin. He died, tragically, in
This film is so my dad. Ross Brioux was a real neighbourhood guy, going door-to-door calling on the locals. Many became lifelong friends including brothers “Bus” and “Sping” Turner. The fact my dad knew guys named “Bus” and “Sping” is so him, too. Men of the early ’40s had nicknames pulled from daily newspaper comic
