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Night Children

1956 30 min
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This short drama presents the story of a case worker with a Children's Aid Society and the children she helps. Working round the clock, the Society receives appeals of every sort. The film shows how the Society follows through in the case of a little girl found wandering alone on downtown streets at night and in other cases of children abandoned, uncared for, the victims of their environment.

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Night Children
  • Perspective
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    1955 46 films
    This TV series from the mid-1950s blended documentary and fiction to tell Canadian stories from a Canadian perspective.

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This short drama presents the story of a case worker with a Children's Aid Society and the children she helps. Working round the clock, the Society receives appeals of every sort. The film shows how the Society follows through in the case of a little girl found wandering alone on downtown streets at night and in other cases of children abandoned, uncared for, the victims of their environment.

  • director
    Bernard Devlin
  • producer
    Julian Biggs
  • script
    George Salverson
  • photography
    John Foster
  • sound
    Claude Pelletier
  • editing
    Brian Keene
  • sound editing
    Brian Keene
  • cast
    James Doohan

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