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The danger tree. [videorecording]
TITLE:
The danger tree. [videorecording]
Publication Date:
1996
Publication Information:
Montreal, Que. : National Film Board of Canada,
Physical Description:
1 videocassette (050 min.)
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Language:
English
General Note:
VHS.
Based on the book, "The Danger Tree" by David Macfarlane.
NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA VIDEO 113H 9195 200.
Memory and history mingle in this moving account of one family's journey through World War One and the events leading up to Newfoundland's confederation with Canada. David narrates this story of his great grandparents, Josiah and Louisa Goodyear, and their seven children, who, at the turn of the century, left behind the hardships of the cod fisheries along the northeast Coast of Newfoundland and moved to Grand Falls, a boom town founded around a brand new paper mill. When Newfoundland decides to contribute an entire regiment to the war effort, five Goodyear sonds go off to fight in Europe. This story is paralleled with that of the country of Newfoundland; which also risked and lost more than it could afford in contributing to the war effort. Imaginative narration, still photographs, and archival and reent footage interweave to form a moving portrait of an almost forgotten period.
