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An Unremarkable Birth
197852 min 22 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Diane Beaudry
Production: Diane BeaudryKathleen Shannon
Script: Barry Cowling
Produced by the NFB for the Federal Women's Film Program.
A growing number of parents are concerned about the impersonal approach to childbirth seen in many hospitals. They find hospital procedures inflexible and more often geared to the needs of the institution than to those of child and parent. Members of the medical profession and parents discuss today's obstetric methods and alternatives to them. The film candidly records the birth of a baby and the interaction of mother and father.
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Subject categories
- Sexuality and Reproduction > Birth
- Health and Medicine > Pregnancy and Birth
- Women > Pregnancy and BirthSexuality and Reproduction
- Families > Sexuality and ReproductionWomen
Credits
- director
- Diane Beaudry
- producer
- Diane Beaudry
- executive producer
- Kathleen Shannon
- commentary
- Barry Cowling
- camera
- Andreas Poulsson
- Douglas Kiefer
- Michel Thomas-d'Hoste
- Robert Rouveroy
- sound
- Joseph Champagne
- Claude Lefebvre
- Ingrid Cusiel
- Michel Hazel
- editing
- Diane Beaudry
- Sidonie Kerr
- sound editing
- Bill Graziadei
- re-recording
- Jean-Pierre Joutel
- narrator
- Marguerite McDonald
- music
- Vincent Dionne