Eye Witness No. 64

195410 min 14 secFilm: Documentary, News Magazine (1940-1965)

Direction: Walford HewitsonHector Lemieux

Production: Jack OlsenNicholas Balla

Script: Peter Jones

A New Life for the Handicapped: The largest rehabilitation centre of its kind in Canada, Toronto's Society for Crippled Civilians offers a means of self-support and a happier life to physically handicapped persons. Fishermen Hunt Battling Broadbills: How to land the really big ones is shown as the film accompanies a fishing schooner off the Nova Scotia coast to watch the chase and harpooning of a savage, fighting swordfish.

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Subject categories

  • Fishing and Hunting Industries > Atlantic Region
  • People with disabilities > People with Physical DisabilitiesTreatment and RehabilitationWorking Life

Credits

director
Walford Hewitson
Hector Lemieux
producer
Jack Olsen
executive producer
Nicholas Balla
script
Peter Jones
editing
Peter Jones
photography
Jean Roy
Hector Lemieux
sound
Clarke Daprato
sound editing
Joan Edward
narrator
Budd Knapp