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Rent-a-World

Item number (ISN):

299725

Series title:

Telescope. Footnotes on the Future

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1969

Item number (ISN):

299725

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

BELL CANADA

Accession:

1979-0192

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1969

Production company:

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Production credit:

director, Colin Smith; producer, Fletcher Markle; executive producer, Thom Benson; photography, Robert Hutt; editing, Myrtle Virgo; sound, Bill McClelland; associate producer, Lloyd Bryden

Description:

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A look at the booming rentals industry and its implications for the future. Visuals hint at the thousands of articles available for a fee and point out the fact that people are also available on the same basis. Sequence illustrates the franchising of businesses and the rise of money rental, or credit. References are made to less hectic times, when ownership meant something, through shots of bread making in a stone oven, and a farmer plowing with horses. By contrast, a short montage of religious rites illustrate the merit of owning nothing. Comments by: John Kettle, futurist; Dale Reistad, business consultant; Paul Nadler, finance analyst; Dr. Franz Winkler, psychiatrist; Marshall McLuhan, communications philosopher; and James Duff on the decline of interest in ownership and the rise of the cashless society with its advantages and disadvantages. A sequence on Vikings sailing their ships supports the contention of one of the speakers that the simple life of long ago had much to offer. <25mn>

Language:

English

Original number:

2641-175

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Vault ISN:

333556

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8006-0245

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

COMP

Stock:

REL PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

Donor restrictions:

The permission of the donor, Bell Canada, is required to reproduce this title.

Copyright status:

Under copyright.

Copyright owner:

Copyright owner: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : with permission of Bell Canada~The HISTORICAL NEWSREELS compilation is open for consultation and copyright has expired - see letter of 5 June 1996 in Collection File.

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