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Camera on Labour No. 2

Wilson, Tim, (film director.). Goldman, Alvin, (film director.). Jones, Peter, (film producer.). Balla, Nicholas, (film producer.). National Film Board of Canada (Montreal), (film producer.).

Summary: Unions Build Low Rent Housing: Autumn-winter construction of Ottawa's Mooretown housing development, brain-child of the local council of the Trades and Labor Congress, eliminates seasonal unemployment for bricklayers, plasterers and carpenters. New Life for Ghost Town Miners: Aided by the provincial government, jobless mine workers of Alberta move from Nordegg and other abandoned coal mining areas to obtain new work elsewhere in Canada.

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  • Physical Description: 1 streaming video (10 min., 00 sec.) : sound, black and white
    remote
    access
  • Publisher: Montreal : National Film Board of Canada, 2022.

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Restrictions on Access Note:
No restrictions.
Creation/Production Credits Note: Director, Tim Wilson, Alvin Goldman ; producer, Peter Jones ; executive producer, Nicholas Balla ; photography, Lorne C. Batchelor, Jack Long ; sound, George Croll ; editing, Marion Meadows.
Participant or Performer Note: Narrator, William Bessey.
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Recorded 1956.
System Details Note:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Source of Description Note:
Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2023-04-05).
Subject: Alberta -- Canada -- Coal industries -- Construction -- Low-cost housing -- Miners -- Ontario -- Ottawa -- Relocation -- Trades and Labor Congress of Canada -- Unemployment -- Union centrals
Public housing -- Ottawa (Ont.)
Abandoned coal mines -- Alberta
Career changes -- Alberta
Genre: Documentary films.
Newsreels.
Topic Heading: National Film Board > National Film Board Collection

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