Agency:.Co-produced by the NFB and the CBC.

Director, Terence Macartney-Filgate ; camera, Terence Macartney-Filgate ; producer, Terence Macartney-Filgate, David Verrall ; executive producer, Douglas MacDonald ; script, William Whitehead ; sound, Jacques Drouin ; editing, John Gareau ; sound editing, Robert St-Hilaire ; re-recording, Jean-Pierre Joutel.

Narrator, William Whitehead.

Recorded 1989.

Produced during the National Film Board of Canada's fiftieth anniversary year, The Magical Eye features clips from 21 documentary and animation film classics, interviews with NFB filmmakers past and present, and incisive commentary from film critics and historians on the role and influence of the NFB during its first half century of existence.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2023-08-10).