NFB Collection
View from the Typewriter
199347 min 27 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Robert Duncan
Production: George JohnsonRobert DuncanBarbara JanesDon HaigGeorge Anthony
Script: Robert Duncan
Co-produced by Duncan Productions Inc. and the NFB with the financial assistance of the CBC.
Through selections from the works of ten of Canada's finest writers, the nation's cultures, peoples and landscapes are explored. Using segments from several NFB documentary portraits of Canadian writers, this production features Hugh MacLennan, W.O. Mitchell, Margaret Laurence, Margaret Atwood, Jack Hodgins, Farley Mowat, Leonard Cohen, Malcolm Lowry, Earle Birney and Milton Acorn paying tribute to their country.
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Subject categories
- Literature and Language - Canada > English-language WritersPortraitsWomen Writers
- Canada - Images of a Country > IdentityLandscapes
- Literature and Language > Portraits
Credits
- director
- Robert Duncan
- script
- Robert Duncan
- producer
- George Johnson
- Robert Duncan
- executive producer
- Barbara Janes
- Don Haig
- George Anthony
- editing
- Garry Smith
- narrator
- Nicola Cavendish
- music
- John Sereda