The Seeing Eye (film)

The Seeing Eye
Directed by	Owen Crump
Produced by	Gordon Hollingshead
Narrated by	Marvin Miller
Cinematography	André de la Varre
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date	December 1951 (1951-12)
Country	United States
Language	English

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.

External links

• The Seeing Eye at IMDb
• /site includes film in historical timeline