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Hold Back the Night

Accession number: 
1951.0046

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Production Years: 
1951

Languages:

  • English
  • French
Film Properties: 
  • 16mm
  • Colour
  • Sound
Length (feet): 
575 (16mm)

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Library and Archives Canada: 16mm.
"The film provides an explanation of glaucoma and stresses the importance of early testing, diagnosis and immediate treatment. Including exceptional material: an opthamologist examines patients; patients suffering from this eye disease are seated in the waiting room of the hsopital Glaucoma Unit; animated sequence describing the illness."

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Crawley Films, Free Films: Directory of Sources of Free 16mm Sponsored Films in Canada (Ottawa: Crawley Films, May 1952): 6.
"Dramatic story of how one man was able to arrest glaucoma, a disease of the eye causing blindness."

Crawley Films, Free Films: Sources of Free 16mm Sponsored Films in Canada Compiled and Published by Crawley Films (Ottawa: Crawley Films, April 1969): 12.
"About Glaucoma."