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Close-Up on Divorce

Item number (ISN):

285628

Series title:

Close-Up

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Item number (ISN):

285628

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, TELEVISION: KINES FROM PARC, TORONTO

Accession:

1982-0037

Media:

Video

Part:

1 of 1

Release date:

1960-08-02

Production company:

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Production credit:

director/script, Goerge Ronald; producer/editing, Ross McLean; Patrick Watson; editing, Noel Dodds; host, Frank Willis; announcer, Rex Loring; reporter, June Callwood; Elaine Grand

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Television public affairs program introduced by Rex Loring and hosted by Frank Willis. An examination of the subject of divorce and the current debate over Canada's proposed divorce law reforms. Interviews are held with: John D. Griffin, psychiatrist and Director of the Canadian Mental Health Association; Henry Cartwright, Kingston lawyer and author of a legal textbook on divorce; Robert McCleave, Member of Parliament for Halifax and Chairman of the House of Commons Committee which studies divorce petitions from Quebec and Newfoundland; Arthur Maloney, MP for Toronto-Parkdale; Bishop John C. Cody, Roman Catholic Church; Arnold Peters, MP; Senator Arthur Roebuck; Alexis Carron, MP for Hull; Archbishop Howard H. Clark, Primate of the Anglican Church; Sir Alan P. Herbert, British MP and author of the 1937 divorce law reforms in Britain; John Drysdale, MP for Burnaby-Richmond; Ronald Merriam, Secretary of the Canadian Bar Association; Violet Munns, social worker; and Dr. Angus MacQueen, Moderator of the United Church of Canada. The issues discussed include: the current legal system with regard to divorce; Quebec divorce laws; the Church's rulings and doctrines on divorce; children of divorced parents; social problems arising from marriage break-down; moral and religious aspects of divorce law reform. Personal narratives are heard from two divorcees. The interviewers are June Callwood and Elaine Grand. <90mn>

Language:

English
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 8203-0143

GENCAT identity number:

GAD 0FD547

Restrictions on consultation:

To be Determined / À déterminer

Reproduction access:

With written permission of Copyright Owner / Avec la permission écrite du détenteur des droits d'auteur

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