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The Invisible Keystone
195729 min 22 secFilm: Documentary
Production: Ronald DickNicholas Balla
Script: Ronald DickWilliam Weintraub
A review of how British constitutional government and British forms of law and order became a valued heritage and a unifying link between members of the Commonwealth. The film moves from one Commonwealth country to another to observe how the democratic formula of government is exercised and kept flexible according to the changing ideas of the time, while the Crown symbolizes a continuity and permanence free of politics. A most significant test of this principle was that of India's rise to nationhood. Edgar McInnis comments on how institutions inherited from Britain were preserved in the country's statutes. Number six of the series.
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Subject categories
- Politics and Government > Colonialism and IndependenceCommonwealth and British Colonies
- Foreign Countries > Commonwealth and British Colonies
Credits
- producer
- Ronald Dick
- executive producer
- 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