Chair of Gold (Bolivia)

In this film, Jack Scott, a Vancouver newspaper columnist, visits Bolivia, South America, to bring us a report on conditions in that country and on the technical assistance program undertaken in the late 1950s by member countries of the United Nations, including Canada. We hear from Canada's Dr. Hugh Keenleyside, who headed a U.N. Commission, and from specialists from other countries who are helping to create a new economy for Bolivia.

1956, 30 min 

  • Directed by Thomas Farley
  • Produced by Julian Biggs
  • Production Agency National Film Board of Canada

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Man of America

This film brings a report from Jack Scott, a Vancouver newspaper columnist, about a United Nations-sponsored migration program in Bolivia in which icampesinos r--tin miners of the Andes mountains--are being moved from the desolate Altiplano to more fertile lowlands. We hear most of the story from one of the miners who describes the skepticism with which his people first met the ideas and what it eventually came to mean to them in terms of new dwellings, land to cultivate, and work to support their families.

1956, 30 min 

  • Directed by Thomas Farley
  • Produced by Julian Biggs
  • Production Agency National Film Board of Canada

Awards

Silver Reel Award - Category: International Understanding
Annual Golden Reel Film Festival - Film Council of America
April 1 1957, New York - USA

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