Atlantic Crossroads

Collaborators : Daly, Tom | McLean, Grant | National Film Board of Canada (Ottawa)

Newfoundland’s role in World War II, her economic structure and post-war prospects are discussed as Atlantic Crossroads surveys its barren hinterland and busy outports. The depression of the thirties is contrasted with the sudden, feverish activity of war.

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