The Man from Karachi

195812 minFilm: Documentary

Direction: Leslie McFarlane

Production: Nicholas Balla

Script: Leslie McFarlane

Report on the first Canadian seminar of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, held in the autumn of 1957 in Banff. Here delegates from ninety-three countries representing fifty-three million organized workers met to study, discuss and learn about matters concerning the free trade union movement throughout the world. The film describes the seminar and the work of the I.C.F.T.U. through the eyes of a delegate from Karachi, Pakistan.

Other versions

L'Homme de Karachi

Subject categories

  • Foreign Countries > International Perspectives
  • Work and Labour Relations > Unionization and the Labour Movement

Credits

director
Leslie McFarlane
script
Leslie McFarlane
producer
Nicholas Balla
photography
Reginald Morris
sound
Clarke Daprato
editing
Marion Meadows
narrator
Geoffrey Hogwood