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A Foreign Language

1958 29 min
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This short documentary focuses on a Montreal public school where thousands of immigrant children learn English for the first time. Part of the Candid Eye series.

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A Foreign Language
  • Candid Eye
    Candid Eye
    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 short documentary focuses on a Montreal public school where thousands of immigrant children learn English for the first time.

Part of the Candid Eye series.

Education Cultural Diversity and Multiculturalism Literature and Language - Canada All subjects
  • director
    Stanley Jackson
  • producer
    Roman Kroitor
    Wolf Koenig
  • executive producer
    Tom Daly
  • photography
    Reginald Morris
  • sound
    Frank Orban
    Ron Alexander

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