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Emergency Ward

1959 30 min
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This 1959 documentary short is a frank portrait of the daily operations inside the Montreal General Hospital’s emergency ward.

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    1958 14 films
    Shot unscripted and unrehearsed, this NFB documentary series for television is a seminal offering in the history of doc filmmaking.

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This 1959 documentary short is a frank portrait of the daily operations inside the Montreal General Hospital’s emergency ward.

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  • director
    William Greaves
  • editing
    William Greaves
  • producer
    Roman Kroitor
    Wolf Koenig
  • executive producer
    Tom Daly
  • commentary
    Stanley Jackson
  • camera
    Wolf Koenig
  • sound
    Ron Alexander
    Kathleen Shannon
    John Locke

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