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The Summer We Moved to Elm Street

Directed by Patricia Watson
Canada, 1966 (fiction, 28 minutes, colour, English)
Also known as "Alcoholism and the Family: The Summer We Moved to Elm Street", "L'été de l'avenue des Ormes"
The Summer We Moved to Elm Street
Image: © National Film Board of Canada

Film Description:
"In our mobile society some families move a lot, and children have to make new friends just when they are becoming comfortable with the ones they have. This film tries to show what goes on in the mind of a nine-year-old girl who finds her happiness disturbed both by a move to another street and by her father's increasing drunkenness."
-- National Film Board of Canada (source)

Film Credits (partial):
Written by: Patricia Watson
Produced by: Guy Glover
Principal Cast: Darlene Harcourt, Jane Morphew, Maggi Morris, Larry Reynolds
Cinematography: Jean-Claude Labrecque
Film Editing: Kathleen Shannon
Production Company: National Film Board of Canada / Office national du film du Canada
(sources)

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