Recherche dans la collection - [Mr. Pearson : Reel 25]

CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, TELEVISION: CBOT FILM LIBRARY

1996-0020

Film

1 of 1

1963

Intervideo Productions Ltd.
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

director, Richard Ballentine; photography, D.A. Pennebaker

Footage shot for MR. PEARSON, a documentary about Lester B. Pearson. It shows Pearson giving a speech at the Canadian Club in Montreal, speaking about prejudice, conflict, national unity the constitution. He shakes hands with people after the speech and Jim Coutts directs him to his car. Next are scenes of the bells ringing to summon MPs to the House of Common, the Sergeant-at-Arms and others entering the House, Pearson entering the House, people standing in the corridor, MPs talking in the stairwell, Richard O'Hagan and an MP talking about the United Nations, Jim Coutts on the telephone trying to arrange meetings and a trip, Pearson talking to Coutts about arranging a meeting and joking about meeting with the Governor General, and discussion by Allan MacEachen and a union official about international and national unions.

English

Libre

GAD 0FD547

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