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Four Centuries of Growing Pains
195729 min 23 secFilm: Documentary
Production: Ronald DickNicholas Balla
Script: Ronald DickWilliam Weintraub
The film traces the origins of the British Commonwealth through four hundred years of history. It reviews how countries like Canada, Australia, India, and other continental and island territories, came to be added, and how each developed to the point of self-government.
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Subject categories
- Foreign Countries > Commonwealth and British ColoniesHistorical Perspectives
- Politics and Government > Commonwealth and British Colonies
- History - Canada - 1946-Present > Constitution
- Politics and Government - Canada > ConstitutionInternational Relations
- History - Canada > International RelationsPolitics and Government
Credits
- producer
- Ronald Dick
- Nicholas Balla
- script
- Ronald Dick
- William Weintraub
- sound
- George Croll
- Ron Alexander
- editing
- Douglas Tunstell
- Nicholas Balla
- Ronald Dick
- Marion Meadows
- Jean Roy
- narrator
- Edgar McInnis
- music
- Maurice Blackburn
- Robert Fleming
- Eldon Rathburn
- Norman Bigras