- This newsreel short spotlights several interesting feature stories from a number of countries including: the Hospice of St. Bernard monks and rescue dogs; fishing and cooking in France; and London rabbits who walk only on their front legs.
- This short features the following items (my outline in parentheses) -- 1) Samaritans of the Alps: (in the Hospice of St. Bernard live 30 monks who use dogs to assist in the finding and rescue of travelers lost in the snow) 2) Sports Page: i/ big fish (fishing for tuna in Brittany, France); ii/ dead end dirt track (how the children in the East End of London, in the New Cross area, cleaned up and converted a bomb site into a dirt track for bicycle races); iii/ the Gold Coast goes racing (horse racing in Accra) 3) The March of Science: the flying petrol pump (how a passenger plane bound for Bermuda gets refueled mid-flight over the Azores) 4) Mainly For Women: i/ bouillabaisse (what the fishermen of Mediterranean France eat after a hard day's fishing); ii/ lace for milady (how beautiful lace is made in Bruges, Belgium) 5) Off The Ration: i/ bottoms up. (rabbits that prefer to walk on their front paws); ii/ the bear idea (3 black bear cubs investigate someone's camp site - until they are interrupted by a skunk!)—ignazia <ignazia@ufie.org>
- This short has several feature stories. They include: tuna fishing off the Brittany coast, bicycle racing in London, horse racing in Ghana, refueling of a plane in mid-air, French cooking, and Belgian lace. Last, but not least, is a group of London rabbits that walk on their front legs, with their hind parts high in the air.—David Glagovsky <dglagovsky@prodigy.net>
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By what name was Spotlight on the World We Live In (1951) officially released in Canada in English?
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