There, he sat on the school's Art Committee and, as a member of the College Literary and Athletic Society, acted in and directed plays and musicals, and won first prize for a poem called Musician's Lament.
A year earlier, the Canadian government had created the National Film Board of Canada, which was a perfect fit for Daly's aspirations.
Grierson was taken with his intellect and bookish manner and hired him as a production assistant, jokingly calling him "the best butler in the business", an expression which would serve as the title for film scholar D.B.
As head of the NFB's Unit B, Daly was involved in, or responsible for, numerous milestones and achievements in both documentary and animation film art, including Cinéma vérité and Direct Cinema productions.
(1948) Science at Your Service (1949)[17] Family Circles (1949) Teeth Are to Keep (1949) Feelings of Depression (1950)[18] A Friend at the Door (1950) Family Tree (1950)[19] Royal Journey (1951) The Longhouse People (1951) Caribou Hunters (1951)[20] Breakdown (1951) [21] Canada's Awakening North (1951)[22] Pen Point Percussion (1951)[23] Fighting Forest Fires with Hand Tools (1951) The Romance of Transportation in Canada (1952) [24] Lismer (1952) Age of the Beaver (1952) [25] Varley (1953) Paul Tomkowicz: Street-Railway Switchman (1953) [26] Corral (1954) [28] Physical Regions of Canada (1954) Riches of the Earth (1954) [29] One Little Indian (1954) [30] A Thousand Million Years (1954) The Homeless Ones (1954) Iron from the North (1955) The Jolifou Inn (1955) To Serve the Mind (1955) Gold (1955) [32] City of Gold (1957) [33] Canadian Profile (1957) Blood and Fire (1958) [34] The Changing Forest (1958) The Living Stone (1958) [35] City Out of Time (1959) [37] Fishermen (1959) Radiation (1959) The Back-Breaking Leaf (1959) [39] Pangnirtung (1959)[40] The Cars in Your Life (1960) [41] Circle of the Sun (1960) [42] Universe (1960) [43] A is for Architecture (1960) [44] Microscopic Fungi (1960)[45] Life in the Woodlot (1960)[46] Roughnecks: The Story of Oil Drillers (1960) Lonely Boy (1961) [47] Cattle Ranch (1961) Do You Know the Milky Way?
(1961) [48] Very Nice, Very Nice (1961) [49] The Days of Whiskey Gap (1961) [50] Runner (1962) [51] My Financial Career (1962)[52] The Joy of Winter (1962) Kindergarten (1962) The Living Machine (1962) The Climates of North America (1962)[54] 21-87 (1963) [55] Pipers and A’ (1963) The Great Toy Robbery (1963) Sky (1963)[56] A Christmas Fantasy (1963)[57] I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly (1963) [58] Christmas Cracker (1963) Legault's Place (1964) [59] The Edge of the Barrens (1964)[60] Nobody Waved Goodbye (1964) [61] Above the Horizon (1964) [62] Free Fall (1964)[63] Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak (1964) [64] Jet Pilot (1964)[65] The Hutterites (1964) [66] An Essay on Science (1964) High Steel (1965) [67] Stravinsky (1965) [68] Island Observed (1966) Helicopter Canada (1966) The Forest (1966) [69] Poen (1967) Danny and Nicky (1969) Mrs. Ryan's Drama Class (1969)[70] Falling from Ladders (1969)[71] Untouched and Pure (1970)[72] Prologue (1970)[73] Half-Half-Three-Quarters-Full (1970) Espolio (1970) November (1970) Legend (1970) Pillar of Wisdom (1970) Sad Song of Yellow Skin (1970)[74] This is a Photograph (1971) [76] Norman Jewison, Film Maker (1971) Wet Earth and Warm People (1971)[77] The Mechanical Knee (1971) The Sea (1971) Pandora (1971) The Sloane Affair (1972) The Huntsman (1972) Centaur (1972)[78] Accident (1973) Coming Home (1973) [80] The Man Who Can't Stop (1973)[81] Action: The October Crisis of 1970 (1973) Sananguagat: Inuit Masterworks (1974) [82] In Praise of Hands (1974)[83] Waiting for Fidel (1974)[84] Mr. Symbol Man (1974) Descent (1975) Musicanada (1975) Blackwood (1976) Los Canadienses (1976) [85] One Man (1977) [86] I'll Go Again (1977) Travel Log (1978) Meditation in Motion (1978) An Easy Pill to Swallow (1978) The Last Days of Living (1980)[89] North China Commune (1980) Standing Alone (1982) Time for Caring (1982)[90]