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The Seeing Eye (1951)

The Seeing Eye poster
Directed by
Owen Crump
Genre
documentary film
Country
United States
Runtime
20 min
Rating
9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This short film shows how The Seeing Eye school trains dogs to guide blind people. It follows the process from puppy training to matching a dog with a person who needs one.

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What happens

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. The Seeing Eye was preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2006. 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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