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BELL CANADA

1979-0192

Film

1 of 1

1969

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

director, Colin Smith; producer, Fletcher Markle; executive producer, Thom Benson; photography, Robert Hutt; editing, Arla Saare; lighting, Joe McGrath; series consultant, John Kettle; film research, Unita Williams; production assistant, Floyd Brydon

Documentary on the communication explosion. Fletcher Markle introduces John Kettle, Dr. John Pierce, Henry M. Boettinger, Pierre Camu, George Sainsbury, Marshall McLuhan, and Buckminster Fuller. Each man talks to the camera about various aspects of transportation and the communication of information. Supporting visuals include montages of ships; Viking sailing ships; a wagon train; and railways. Sequences deal with container transportation, pipeline construction, seaway shipping, the construction of a super tanker, a giant humpyard, and hovercraft. Medium close-up's of slabs of Egyptian hieroglypics followed by a montage of space age communications gadgetry. London, England is well shown in a slow, low level aerial from over the Thames. The camera cuts, then, to the coliseum in Rome. <25mn 53s>

English

2641-161

Open

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Copyright owner: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

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.