The Morning Zoo

Directed by Daisy Lee

Canada, 1989 (documentary, 25 minutes, colour, English)

Film Description:
"This is a film about one morning's activity in North America's largest wholesale fresh produce marketplace, the Ontario Food Terminal. It is a personal story told by independent film-maker Daisy Lee, herself a farmer's child, and used to the daily routine of picking, transporting and selling produce."
-- WorldCat (source)

Film Credits (partial):
Production Company:	Grindstone Films

(sources)

Quote about The Morning Zoo

"[In The Morning Zoo], some of the traders explain that for themselves, as penniless immigrants, with little education and no connections in the new world, farming was the only means of survival. The children of these pioneers reminisce about the struggle and hardship they have endured. Many of these second- and third-generation Ontarians are now successful traders in their own right, who still frequent the Morning Zoo. One of them, a woman, has her own story to tell of the additional strain placed on her to be 'one of the guys' if she wanted to succeed against all the odds. Which she has."
-- Joan McGrath (source)

Bibliography for The Morning Zoo

Articles from Newspapers, Magazines, or News Websites

McGrath, Joan. "The Morning Zoo." Review of The Morning Zoo. CM, vol. 19, no. 1, January 1991.