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White Fortress

Name: White Fortress
Released: June 23, 2010, 11:19 a.m.
Duration: 9 min

Leslie McFarlane & Ronald Weyman

1949 | 9 min

Available
on DVD

This short 1949 documentary studies the impact Canada's National Health Program has had on people who might otherwise not had been able to obtain medical help.

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Credits

director

Leslie McFarlane

Ronald Weyman
producer

Don Mulholland
photography

Robert Humble

Robert Campbell
editing

Nicholas Balla

Marion Meadows
narrator

Lorne Greene
music

Robert Fleming

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