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A Foreign Language

Stanley Jackson

1958 29 min

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This short documentary focuses on a Montreal public school where thousands of immigrant children learn English for the first time. Part of the Candid Eye series.

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  Candid Eye

  1958 14 films

  Shot unscripted and unrehearsed, this NFB documentary series for television is a seminal offering in the history of doc filmmaking.

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This short documentary focuses on a Montreal public school where thousands of immigrant children learn English for the first time. Part of the Candid Eye series.

See also

Education

Cultural Diversity and Multiculturalism

Literature and Language - Canada

All subjects

Credits

• director
  Stanley Jackson
  
• producer
  Roman Kroitor
  
  Wolf Koenig
  
• executive producer
  Tom Daly
  
• photography
  Reginald Morris
  
• sound
  Frank Orban
  
  Ron Alexander
  

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