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Catalogue Number: NFB524008
Producer: National Film Board Of Canada
Producers: Robin Spry, Tom Daly
Directors: Robin Spry
Producing Agencies: National Film Board of Canada (Montreal), Office national du film du Canada (Montreal)
Subject: Education, Fiction, Social Issues, Social Studies, Special Education
Language: English
Country Of Origin: Canada
Copyright Year: 1969
Running Time: 127:45
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Prologue - DVD
Catalogue Number: NFB524008
Producer: National Film Board Of Canada
Producers: Robin Spry, Tom Daly
Directors: Robin Spry
Producing Agencies: National Film Board of Canada (Montreal), Office national du film du Canada (Montreal)
Subject: Education, Fiction, Social Issues, Social Studies, Special Education
Language: English
Country Of Origin: Canada
Copyright Year: 1969
Running Time: 127:45
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One critic described this film as an "immensely appealing and articulate exploration of the world of the drop-out, which makes almost everything else in the recent spate of films about hippydom seem adolescent." Prologue concerns a young Montréaler who edits an underground newspaper. He and his female companion are joined by a young draft dodger from the United States. In the choices they make, the two rival philosophies of dissenting youth become evident: militant protest or communal retreat. The film includes some of the bloody rioting in Chicago during the 1968 Democratic Convention. Also seen and heard in the film is anti-war and civil rights spokesman Abbie Hoffman.