Small is beautiful

Canada, 1978

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Episode of Series “Challenge for change/Societe nouvelle”.
Up to age forty-five, Fritz Schumacher, economist, technologist and lecturer, was dedicated to economic growth. Then he came to believe that the modern technological explosion had grown out of all proportion to human need. Author of Small Is Beautiful - A Study of Economics as if People Mattered and founder of the London-based Intermediate Technology Development Group, he championed the cause of “appropriate” technology. The film brings us into contact with this gentle revolutionary a few months before his death.

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Credits

co-producers/directors

Donald Brittain

Barrie Howells

Douglas Kiefer

production company

National Film Board of Canada

Duration

00:29:57:00

Production places

Canada

Production dates

1978

Appears in

Challenge for change/Societe nouvelle

Group of items

Challenge for change/Societe nouvelle

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Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

015947

Language

English

Subject categories

Climate, Environment, Natural Resources & Disasters → Conservation of natural resources

Climate, Environment, Natural Resources & Disasters → Schumacher, E.F. (Ernst Friedrich)

Documentary

Documentary → Documentary films - Canada

Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Economics

Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Schumacher, E.F. (Ernst Friedrich)

Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Technology - Social aspects

Mathematics, Science & Technology → Technology - Social aspects

People → Schumacher, E.F. (Ernst Friedrich)

Short films

Short films → Short films - Canada

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Holdings

16mm film; Limited Access Print (Section 2)

16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)

16mm film; Preservation Print (Section 5)

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

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