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  • Colour Blind
    Colour Blind
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    Jinder Oujla-Chambers 1999 25 min
    This film shows kids that being racist is not cool and that even subtle racism can explode into violence. Shot in Vancouver and Toronto schools, the film features teens from a variety of backgrounds. The students speak from personal experience, providing a startling look into the average high school--a place where the kids themselves create de facto segregation by hanging out only with others of the same colour.
  • Let's Look at Water
    Let's Look at Water
    Harold Randall 1947 20 min
    This short documentary shows how a city's water supply is purified at a filtration plant. The complex system of the underground mains that supply all parts of the city with water is also illustrated, as is the safeguarding of water supplies on trains, ships and aircrafts.
  • Snow Fighters
    Snow Fighters
    Leslie McFarlane 1957 10 min
    A close-up of a snow-bound city, and the men, money and machinery it takes to dig it out.

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