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To Be Deaf
19811 h 24 min 57 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Yves Dion
Production: Jean Dansereau
Script: Clément Perron
Produced by the National Film Board of Canada in collaboration with Health and Welfare Canada.
The deaf could be compared to a cultural minority struggling to assert itself in a society that has other priorities. Their integration is made more difficult by a handicap that oftentimes spells loneliness. This film acquaints its audience with the problems connected with impaired hearing: communication, education, social integration, jobs. It shows how many of these problems can be surmounted, or at the very least attenuated. A film that makes those who can hear aware of the deaf. This film has English subtitles in addition to an English soundtrack.
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Subject categories
- People with disabilities > EducationHearing impairedIntegrationWorking Life
Credits
- director
- Yves Dion
- editing
- Yves Dion
- producer
- Jean Dansereau
- commentary
- Clément Perron
- photography
- Jean-Pierre Lachapelle
- sound
- Yves Gendron
- sound editing
- Gilles Quintal
- re-recording
- Jean-Pierre Joutel
- narrator
- Michèle Magny