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Northwest Neighbours
195830 minFilm: Documentary
Direction: Julian Biggs
Production: David Bairstow
Script: Stuart Nutter
Yellowknife is a thriving, modern community under the rim of the Arctic Circle. People live up there, but do they like it? This film demonstrates that they do--that a good life is no monopoly of the urban, steam-heated world to the south. Paved streets, modern housing, schools, telephones and sports make Yellowknife of 1958 a far cry from the settlement of 1937. The film examines the psychological problems of life in the northwest and shows that, with a little ingenuity, anything that can be done in the provinces can be done in the territories.
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Subject categories
- Urbanism > Canadian CitiesNorthern Mining Towns
- Social Issues > Canadian Communities
Credits
- director
- Julian Biggs
- producer
- David Bairstow
- script
- Stuart Nutter
- photography
- Eugene Boyko