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.

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