Events
- February 8 - Bob Dylan's hour-long documentary film, Eat the Document, premieres at New York's Academy of Music. The film includes footage from Dylan's 1966 UK tour.
- The first permanent IMAX projection system is installed at Ontario Place's "Cinesphere" in Toronto.
- April 23 - Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song becomes the highest-grossing independent film of 1971.
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“Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence. The most exact calculator has no prescience that somewhat incalculable may not balk the very next moment. I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.”
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