sense of irony that would have done Paul Fussell proud, for example juxtaposing "an ironically absurd war song" along with Gustav Holst's The Planets orchestral suite and a "throbbing rock anthem". Good Times, Bad Times subverts past documentaries on the subject such that the ordinary becomes "savage, and the obvious arcane", as Mark McCarthy puts it in his review, and then proceeds to interpret a central scene in phenomenological terms:The last corpse dissolves to a beautiful old still of some teen-age private, hair awry, laughing in delight at something off-camera, and we know they are the same person. But then the lovely photograph dissolves to a toothless veteran in the pub, his face blank in some mindless odyssey, and we know that he was that boy, once; and by some magic we in the audience are all three, stinking carrion, bright youth, and haunted age. Our hearts begin to break with memories of wars we never fought in. Production Good Times, Bad Times was made for the CBC Television documentary series The Way It Is. Its working title was The Veterans. Filming Shot on black and white 16 mm film and intercut with documentary footage from many films made decades earlier, Shebib's film makes use of what Mark McCarty refers to as "double-frame printing", which makes the veterans' pace in half-step appear "out of sync" with the viewer. Sound and music Shebib's musical selections for the film ranged from classical to contemporary rock. Mark McCarty describes John Granik's narration as "sometimes laconic, only reminiscent names of half-forgotten battlegrounds," and at other times, "consciously poetic" in the vein of Wilfred Owen or Siegfried Sassoon. Release Broadcast history The documentary aired for the first time at 10 pm (EST) Sunday 4 May 1969, four days before VE Day. Good Times, Bad Times was rebroadcast on 11 November 1970 (Remembrance Day) and again in 1974 for the programme Such Is Life. On 7 November 1992 it aired as the eighth episode of The Passionate Eye, a documentary series which runs on the CBC News Network channel. Home media and streaming As of 2013, Good Times, Bad Times, which is Shebib's favourite of his entire repertoire, is unavailable for viewing in any format. Reception Critical response Contemporary Mark McCarty was unsettled at first by the documentary's formal design, but this gave way to admiration for the director's "craft and imagination", its "elegance in its