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Title: POWER OF PROVIDENCE

Reference number: 8517

Date: 1985c

Director: d. Judi Ritchie

Sponsor: made with the assistance of the National Film and Television School

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 10.00 minsc

Description: The day to day work of the Missionaries of Charity in Glasgow, showing their work with the poor and vunerable. Opens with an extended sequence at Glasgow's fruit and vegetable market where nuns collect vegetables for the soup kitchen, members of the local Catholic community speak about how they try to help Sister MacKay, packing clothes and blankets to send to Calcutta, and the general work of the community to help those less fortunate.

Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic religious order established in 1950 by Mother Teresa of Calcutta.

Credits: Many thanks to all the participants

p. man. Lee Leckie
sd. Alan Young
cameraman Norrie Halley
ass. Lorna Will
ed. Russel Fenton
ass. Lindy Cameron
facilities Alva Films Ltd.

Made with the assistance of the National Film and Television School. With special thanks to Murray Grigor