The Seeing Eye (film)

The Seeing Eye
Directed byOwen Crump
Produced byGordon Hollingshead
Narrated byMarvin Miller
CinematographyAndré de la Varre
Distributed byWarner Bros.
Release date
  • December 1951 (1951-12)
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Seeing Eye is a 1951 American short documentary film produced by Gordon Hollingshead in Technicolor as a Technicolor Special about The Seeing Eye, a guide dog training school in Morristown, New Jersey. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.[1][2] The Seeing Eye was preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2006.[3]

Among previous film short documentaries on the same subject are two other titles sporting the same title:

  • Also for Warner Brothers, but produced by Jerome Hillman as part of the Broadway Brevities series, running 19 minutes and released April 5, 1941.
  • Produced by Educational Film Exchanges, Inc., supervised by Clinton Wunder, running 10 minutes and released January 17, 1936 as part of the "Treasure Chest" series.

References

  1. ^ "The 24th Academy Awards (1952) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Archived from the original on July 6, 2011. Retrieved August 19, 2011.
  2. ^ "NY Times: The Seeing Eye". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on October 15, 2012. Retrieved November 25, 2008.
  3. ^ "Preserved Projects". Academy Film Archive.


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