Hugh O'Connor (March 12, 1924 - September 20, 1967) was a Canadian director and producer who worked for the National Film Board of Canada (NFB).
This inspired Canadian filmmaker Norman Jewison to apply similar techniques to The Thomas Crown Affair.
This offended many residents, who objected to stereotyping and criticism by outsiders, as well as the tendency to show only the poor side of Appalachia.
[5] Unaware of the hostility toward outsiders,[6] O'Connor went to the mountains of eastern Kentucky while working on a documentary called US, which had been commissioned by the United States Department of Commerce to be shown at HemisFair '68 in San Antonio.
[7][6][3][8][9][10][11] The entire incident was documented by Elizabeth Barret in her 2000 film Stranger with a Camera, which aired on the PBS series P.O.V.
[12] All National Film Board of Canada[13][14] Islands of the Frozen Sea (1958)[15] Radiation (1959) Microscopic Fungi (1960)[17] Life in the Woodlot (1960)[18] Above the Horizon (1964)[19] Magic Molecule (1964)[20] The Edge of the Barrens (1964)[21]