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Blindness
196427 min 56 secFilm: Fiction
Direction: Morten Parker
Production: Walford Hewitson
Script: Bernard DevlinEdmund ReidWilson Southam
The story of a man who lost his sight during the best years of his life. Filmed with the help of the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, this study of blindness tries to show the emotional effect of the sudden loss of sight and how a man so stricken climbs back from the brink of despair. In the film the young man learns a trade that enables him to support himself and eventually a family.
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Subject categories
- People with disabilities > Blind and Visually Impaired PeoplePortraits
- Psychology and Psychiatry > Emotional Life
- Work and Labour Relations > Persons with Disabilities
Credits
- director
- Morten Parker
- producer
- Walford Hewitson
- script
- Bernard Devlin
- Edmund Reid
- Wilson Southam
- photography
- Mike Lente
- sound
- Joseph Champagne
- editing
- Dennis Sawyer
- sound editing
- Sidney Pearson
- re-recording
- George Croll
- cast
- Len Cariou