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Emergency Ward

William Greaves

1959 30 min

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This 1959 documentary short is a frank portrait of the daily operations inside the Montreal General Hospital’s emergency ward.

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  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 1959 documentary short is a frank portrait of the daily operations inside the Montreal General Hospital’s emergency ward.

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Health and Medicine

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Credits

• director
  William Greaves
  
• editing
  William Greaves
  
• producer
  Roman Kroitor
  
  Wolf Koenig
  
• executive producer
  Tom Daly
  
• commentary
  Stanley Jackson
  
• camera
  Wolf Koenig
  
• sound
  Ron Alexander
  
  Kathleen Shannon
  
  John Locke
  

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