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Frontier College
195420 min 48 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Julian Biggs
Production: Guy Glover
Script: Julian BiggsWilliam Stephenson
How adult education is brought to the railway and logging camps of Canada's hinterland. The film tells how university students every summer become "one of the gang" in order to help new immigrants and "old" Canadians acquire some of the knowledge which will enrich their future lives. We are introduced to the founder of Frontier College, Dr. E.W. Bradwin, and witness the experiences of one volunteer who spends his holidays doing double duty as railway section hand by day and teacher by night.
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Subject categories
- Education > Adult EducationEducation in Remote and Rural Areas
Credits
- director
- Julian Biggs
- commentary
- Julian Biggs
- producer
- Guy Glover
- screenplay
- William Stephenson
- photography
- John Spotton
- sound
- George Croll
- editing
- Fergus McDonell
- sound editing
- William Greaves
- narrator
- E. Wilson
- music
- Robert Fleming