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Knowing to Learn

1966 1 h 11 min
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This feature documentary about education explores the mid-century state of learning in the classrooms of North America. New approaches to learning and the emerging technologies that facilitate them are explored, including the new roles of the computer, tape recorder and television. Directed by Quebec cinema giant Claude Jutra (Mon Oncle Antoine), the film was produced with the collaboration of researchers studying all forms of education, from infancy to adulthood.

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This feature documentary about education explores the mid-century state of learning in the classrooms of North America. New approaches to learning and the emerging technologies that facilitate them are explored, including the new roles of the computer, tape recorder and television. Directed by Quebec cinema giant Claude Jutra (Mon Oncle Antoine), the film was produced with the collaboration of researchers studying all forms of education, from infancy to adulthood.

  • director
    Claude Jutra
  • script
    Claude Jutra
  • producer
    Marcel Martin
  • photography
    Bernard Gosselin
  • sound
    Marcel Carrière
  • editing
    Werner Nold
  • sound editing
    Bernard Bordeleau
  • animation
    Pierre Hébert
  • narrator
    Lister Sinclair
    Jane Leduc
  • re-recording
    Ron Alexander
    Roger Lamoureux

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