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Hungry Minds
194811 minFilm: Documentary
Direction: Tom Daly
Production: Tom Daly
Produced by the National Film Board of Canada for the Canadian Council for Reconstruction through UNESCO.
A report of intellectual starvation in countries scourged by Nazi occupation. Schools are now lost in the rubble. Children gather knowledge of the world from the black markets and refuse dumps, roving in gangs through the litter of a civilization. From mute faces, eyes stare hungrily, marking the desolation of mind as well as body. Text books, writing materials, research equipment and a thousand other tools of knowledge are needed to break apathy and hostility, and to open young minds to the promise of a more peaceful world.
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Subject categories
- War, Conflict and Peace - World War II Archival Films > Allied CountriesPost-war Period
- Education > Child EducationForeign CountriesSocial ProblemsWartime Education
- Children and Youth > Education and School LifeWar and YouthYouth of the World
- Foreign Countries > EuropePost-war PeriodWorld War II
- War, Conflict and Peace > War and Youth
Credits
- director
- Tom Daly
- producer
- Tom Daly