Farewell Oak Street

McLean, Grant, (film director.). Burwash, Gordon, (film producer.). Glover, Guy, (film producer.). National Film Board of Canada (Ottawa), (film producer.).

Summary: The story of what a low-rental housing project can mean to the people who once shared aged, sub-standard dwellings. A before-and-after picture about people in a large-scale public housing project in Toronto, who, because of the housing shortage, had been forced to live in squalid, dingy flats, all-purpose rooms, and ramshackle houses on a crowded street in Regent Park North. These people were freed through housing development to inhabit new, modern dwellings planned to give a measure of privacy, light and air.

Record details

Physical Description: 1 streaming video (17 min., 00 sec.) : sound, black and white
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Publisher: Montreal : National Film Board of Canada, 2010.
Copyright: ♭1953

Content descriptions

General Note:	Versions:.Presented with discussion in <I>Window on Canada No. 68: The Intelligent Viewer's Guide to Canadian Slums</I>, title code: 106B 0156 157.
Restrictions on Access Note:	No restrictions.
Creation/Production Credits Note:	Director, Grant McLean ; producer, Gordon Burwash ; script, Gordon Burwash ; executive producer, Guy Glover ; photography, Robert Humble ; sound, Clarke Daprato ; editing, Fergus McDonell ; sound editing, Kenneth Heeley-Ray ; music, Eldon Rathburn.
Participant or Performer Note:	Narrator, Lorne Greene ; cast, Roxanna Bond, Bonnie Brooks, Gerald Campbell, Eric Clavering, Andy Halmay, Cosie Lee, Edgar Marshall, Douglas Masters, Jim McRae, Kate Reid.
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:	Recorded 1953.
Target Audience Note:	12-18.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Awards Note:	Recognition of Merit, 1955 First Award - Category: Theatrical Short, 1954 First Prize - Category: Town Planning, 1956
Source of Description Note:	Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2023-04-05).