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Just a Lady
198021 min 20 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Susan Trow
Production: Margaret PettigrewKathleen Shannon
A photographic journal covering one hundred and fifty years, showing the women of an upper-class Canadian family. Starting with an early immigrant family, the film gradually narrows its focus from yesterday's women, who lived secure, comfortable lives tied into rigid social patterns, to today's women and the choices that face them. A search for roots and meaning that is both personal and historical.
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Subject categories
- Women > Changing RolesFamily LifeHistorical Perspectives
- Families > Family PortraitsWomen
- Social Issues > Immigrant ExperienceSocial ChangeWomen
Credits
- director
- Susan Trow
- editing
- Susan Trow
- producer
- Margaret Pettigrew
- executive producer
- Kathleen Shannon
- photography
- Susan Trow
- Gilles Tremblay
- Richard Moras
- sound editing
- Bruce Mackay
- Alain Clavier
- re-recording
- Hans Peter Strobl
- music
- Sharon Smith