Original production:.Original production in French.

Director, Bonnie Sherr Klein ; producer, George C. Stoney ; camera, Réo Grégoire, Roger Rochat ; sound, Richard Besse ; editing, Ulla Ryghe.

Recorded 1969.

An experiment in using videotape recording (VTR) and closed-circuit television to stimulate social action in a poor district of Montréal. A citizens' committee, formed in the downtown neighbourhood of St-Jacques, was given a VTR unit, which they used to record people's problems and concerns. After viewing the edited tapes, people recognized their common problems and began to talk of joint solutions. In trying to change what needed changing they ran into resistance, but the effectiveness of this means of promoting joint action had been tested and proved.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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