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Background
The film Sins of the Fathers is an old black and white movie that was directed by Phil Rosen and Richard J. Jarvis. It was released in April 26th, 1948 and had an estimated budget of 45,000 CAD. Sins of the Fathers is a Canadian Production film that was filmed in Quebec, Canada, at Quebec Productions. Unfortunately, Sins of the Fathers was released it did not as good as it was anticipated at the time. By 1970’s the film was already forgotten about a decade later. “Filmmaking in Canada was relatively rare until the late 1950s, making this mid-century marvel one of the most lucrative and proactive Canadian films of the immediate post-war period.” Although, on May 1917, The Ontario Motion picture Bureau (OMPB) was founded. It is “the first-state-sponsored film organization in the world”, which was made in order to provide “educational work for farmers, school children, factory works and other classes” and to produce films that would advertise Ontario and promote infrastructure projects. After this, films started to be produced more but also films in Canada become important. The Sins of the Fathers was a film produced in 1948, so evidently it is old, but even though films back then might sound boring in todays society, back then films were people's entertainment and played a huge role in their everyday lives. Even though the film had a notable effect on Canada's film industry,Sins of the Fathers has been almost totally excluded from critical and historical accounts of Canadian cinema.”

Plot
Sins of the Father filmed and released in Canada in 1948 is a film that has to do with sex, drugs, alcoholism, and a deadly disease. The film Sins of the Fathers is an exploitation film, based on sex hygiene. “In those days everything that ran in families was inherited. Perhaps not speaking French or voting Republican, but certainly talents and weaknesses were inherited. Alcoholism was clearly a weakness, or vice, or both.” The plot is based on “a dramatized story about a town where illegal activities are allowed to thrive, some of the politicians are dishonest, and a doctor and couple of colleagues try to help townspeople see that public health measures, especially those that might control syphilis, are necessary.” This movie is also based on the virus that is spreading through the town leading a doctor to take care of it under his own methods. "A doctor and couple of colleagues try to help townspeople see that public health measures, especially those that might control syphilis are necessary. Two of the most influential men in town oppose clean up and public health efforts until their young adult children contract syphilis the worst of swampy diseases." "Spliced into the dramatic film are segments of other educational films, including animated segments, that describe the symptoms and risks of syphilis." A butcher named Tony is excited about the birth of his first child, but the child is born dead because of a maternal syphilis infection that the mother gained throughout the movie. This infection that has been spreading throughout all of the small little town in Canada is deemed to be deadly because no one is able to treat it. This infection is a sexually transmitted bacterial infection. At the time it was not a treatable disease because it was so new. Without treatment, it can lead to disability, neurological disorders, and death. It is caused by the bacterium treponema pallidum. It is spread through sexual contact with sores, known as chancres.

Main Director: Phil Rosen
Born May 8, 1888 in Marienburg, and unfortunately, passed away on October 22, 1951, in Hollywood, California due to a hear attack died on October 22, 1951. He was one of the founders of the American Society of Cinematographers. Rosen was married to model, actress, interpretive dancer supreme, Joyzelle Joyner. He was an American Russian film director and cinematographer. He directed one hundred forty two (142) films between the years of 1915 and 1949.

John Pratt
John Pratt is an actor that played in the Canadian Film Sins of the Fathers as Marty Williamson. Born on February 28, 1907 in London, England. He was an actor, known for Meet the Navy (1946), Sins of the Fathers (1948) and House in Order (1936). He was married to Mabel L. Griffin as well as Rosetta Pratt. He died on April 6, 2003. John Pratt's role in the movie was as a Canadian ophthalmologist and Emeritus Professor of Ophthalmology, of University of British Columbia. He was a famous Pediatric ophthalmology and trained multiple fellows at the University. He also involved himself in international cooperation to improve the status of medical care in the area of blindness prevention and access to surgical expertise for under-served areas in poor countries. As part of Orbis and the board of directors of several Canadian Societies he has helped organize funds, build facilities and train health care workers and ophthalmologists, particularly from Nepal, where prevalence of blindness is quite high.

Austin Willis: Dr. Ben Edwards
Alexander Austin Willis was a Canadian actor and television host. He was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, to parents Alexander Samuel and Emma Graham Willis. His older brother, J. Frank Willis, was a radio broadcaster with the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission(CRBC). The actor was born on September 30th 1917 in Halifax and died on April 3 2004 in Dartmouth. In 2002, Austin was made a Member of the Order of Canada. He is best known internationally for his appearance as Simmons, the man whom the character Auric Goldfinger beats at cards in the opening scenes of the James Bond film, Goldfinger. In Canada, he had a varied film and TV career, ranging from the early science-fiction series Space Command, to hosting Cross-Canada Hit Parade for several years in the 1950s. In the 1970s, he found new fans as the host of the humorous game show This Is the Law. He then played a role in the Canadian Movie Sins of the Fathers as Dr. Ben Edwards, who played a main character.

Joy Lafleur
Joy Lafleur was a Canadian actress, born on June 25, 1914 in Montreal, Quebec. She was known for playing a role in the film Sins of the Fathers (1984) as Patsy Curran, a women who finds it hard to live and finds hard to cope with the syphilis virus spreading around. She then encourages Marty Williamson for top help. Unfortunately, she died on November 6, 1957 in Los Angeles, California.