NFB Collection
For You, Mr. Bell
197115 min 50 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: William Canning
Production: William CanningGeorge Pearson
Script: Strowan Robertson
This film profile of Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone and pioneer in many other fields of technology, including heavier-than-air flight, is a warmly human story. Full of anecdotes, it tells the story of a man whose main concern was finding a way to alleviate the problems of the deaf. It is told largely through photographs of Bell, of his wife who was deaf, of their spacious retreat at Baddeck, Nova Scotia, and of people who shared in his work and experiments.
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Subject categories
- People with disabilities > Hearing impairedPortraits
- Technology > Historical PerspectivesInventionPortraitsTelephone Equipment
- Media and Communication > Historical PerspectivesPortraitsTelephone Communications
Credits
- director
- William Canning
- producer
- William Canning
- executive producer
- George Pearson
- commentary
- Strowan Robertson
- photography
- David De Volpi
- sound
- Joseph Champagne
- editing
- F. Whitman Trecartin
- William Canning
- sound editing
- Jean-Pierre Joutel
- re-recording
- Jean-Pierre Joutel
- Michel Descombes