Who Will Teach Your Child?

Who Will Teach Your Child? is a Canadian short documentary film, directed by Stanley Jackson and released in 1948.[1] The film is about the importance of proper training for elementary and high school teachers,[2] mixing commentary with dramatic enactments of various potential classroom incidents acted by real Ottawa-area students and teachers.[1]

Who Will Teach Your Child?
Directed byStanley Jackson
Produced byGudrun Parker
Tom Daly
Written byStanley Jackson
Narrated byPercy Rodriguez
Music byClarke Da Prato
CinematographyGrant McLean
Edited byStanley Jackson
Gudrun Parker
Production
company
Release date
1948
Running time
30 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

The film won the Canadian Film Award for Best Theatrical Short Film at the 1st Canadian Film Awards in 1949.[3] The film was also named by Scholastic Teacher magazine as one of the ten best films about education distributed in the United States in 1949.[4]

References

  1. "Documentary Film On Pupils And Teachers". Ottawa Citizen, December 8, 1948.
  2. "Film Board's Picture About Teaching Fails". Winnipeg Tribune, November 27, 1948.
  3. Maria Topalovich, And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards. Stoddart Publishing, 2000. ISBN 0-7737-3238-1. pp. 5-7.
  4. "Ottawa Films Are Selected". Ottawa Citizen, April 27, 1950.


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