It took a boy with his eyes on the stars to show that even the best town is a poor town when it has no place for books. Beaver River, a farming community in north central Saskatchewan, has paved roads, a new school, a curling rink, and many television sets, but no place where a boy could find a book about the stars. In this film Beaver River gets its own library and, in the process, illustrates Saskatchewan’s regional library system which provides book loans at minimum costs to municipality and province. This film is historically good for the pictorial/architecture/general life style of such a country town of it’s time.
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Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
001374
Language
English
Subject categories
Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Canada - Rural conditions
Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Canada - Description and travel
Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Canada - Rural conditions
Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Canada - Social life and customs
Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Saskatchewan
Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Travel
Documentary → Documentary films - Canada
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Canada - Social conditions
Education, Instruction, Teaching & Schools → Books
Education, Instruction, Teaching & Schools → Libraries - Canada
Education, Instruction, Teaching & Schools → Public libraries
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Black and White
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)
16mm film; Limited Access Print (Section 2)