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By JAMES NELSON

OTTAWA rCPl—Mr. Pearson. the $35,000 film on a day in the life of the prime minister com- missioned by the CBC. and scheduled for television broad- cast but later cancelled. was shown for members of the Na- ltional Press Club.

. ost of the viewers found it. a not unflattering. but by no means ﬂattering. inside look at the operations of the prime min- ister_ his cabinet. and his office staff

The hour - long production. TH ‘ ‘ ‘. ﬁlmed by lnterVideo Television ‘ . t - . ‘ under the direction of Richard - ‘ ' . . _ . Ballentine. was made by means 1 i“ ‘ .. g ' __ _ - of portable movie camera and , ,, » A i _ . l sound - recording equipment in ‘1 . . _, the East and Centre Block of- H ‘ ‘ _ . r . o p tices and town residence of the - ' ’ h . ‘ ., * ‘, prime minister. ' l. v ‘ - It covered Mr Pearson's no I _ ‘ ‘ t 1 . , . tivitles during a day last Octo- . ' . a” -, ' r - ‘ ' _ 1 her when Real Caouette‘s Ral- ’ ’- I . _ 2., _ / r I .’ i . hement des Creditistes were ' :I - . ' - . ‘ I ' n V . . demanding better seats in the ' ‘. . - _ . - , u 5-- . A I _ chse of Commons. the lake- 7 . -- shipping strike was boiling up , ~ ‘ i. V - to a crisis, and Emperor Kaila ‘ V 7 > a g . ~ I - § -

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"Well. I've had a hell of a day.“ Mr. Pearson summarized the events in a telephone eon- wear a short. black coat instead . l = ' of morning coat for the official s I. B- J. . arrival ceremony: and a last- . minute protocol switch that of mm a a ressm eanu 0 er en: es 0 ea as visit to the prime minister‘s I

rersation with Donald Gordon. country home after dark in-

oresident of the CNR Th . stead of mid-afternoon. c c s c I "He won't be able to see a damn thing." the prime minls- , MEATY WINGS 0" W says. f M M 16 02. 16 02 28 oz. 1 LB. Scenes 0 . 1'. Pearson th Labor Minister MacEachen and Tle BAG 3 LBS I other ministers were filmed ' . . With obvious knowledge of the

participants that sup-

is a revealing in- sight Into the man. both as leader of a government telling Labor Minister MacEacthen to stay in town during the ship- ping crisis. and sitting with his feet up on another chair In M office. watching a world seriec baseball game on television.

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posedly configential talks are being recorde .

Broadcasting the film on teie- sum" covered vision was cancelled by the CBC on grounds mat it was - ‘ below the state-owned corpor- ation‘s technical standards. Mr. Pearson said in the Commons the sound track was so poor the

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Reporters found no trouble with the sound track except for a few extraneous noises that. creep into any on-the-spot live 0 recording not done in a tele- W vision or motion picture studio. A few technical faults were seen in focusing the camera, . but the editing of the film was described as good by television newsmen attending the National

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ity to get in touch With . LB. 0 BAG would let the film "speak for Ii" : I Iii": ' I "3': I I itself " It Will be shown in film festivals around the world. he said

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