THE WORKING CLASS ON FILM [Main Title]

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  • Title: THE WORKING CLASS ON FILM [Main Title]
  • Film Number: MGH 5019
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  • Summary: This film, through excerpts taken from early British documentaries and National Film Board films, illustrates the origins of the documentary as visualized by John Grierson, filmmaker and social agitator, and it traces the development of the documentary over the past fifty years.
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  • Colour: Colour
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  • Object_Number: MGH 5019
  • Sound: Sound
  • Access Conditions: NON-IWM
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  • Production Date: 1974
  • Production Country: Canada
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  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: Colour Sound format: Sound
  • Technical Details: Format: 16mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 510 ft; Running time: 15 mins
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