Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

SANWAL CBC

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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Adapted from the novel by Otto Lowy Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television 'family'. But then he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people did not live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television. When Mildred attempts suicide and Clarisse suddenly disappears, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known. [Goodreads.com] Cast: Neal Denard … Montag Alan Scarfe … The Fire Captain Linda Sorenson Sharon Kurt Peter Hobwerth Dorothy Davies Merv Componi Eric Walston Anni Scarfe Sound by Lars Eastholm Technical by Bob Spence Produced by Don Mowatt Vancouver Origination TX 4 March 1971 CBC Stage

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