SUMMER OF '48
LIFE NETWORK
2001 | 46 mins
Relations between filmmaker Dugald Maudsley and his father, Don, have been strained for two decades. With great unease they embark on a road trip together - a search for all the men Don played baseball with in 1948.
In 1948 Don won a coveted position on the Pee Wee All Stars, a baseball team in his hometown of London, Ontario. That year he and his fellow 13-year-old team mates traveled all the way to the championships – and lost.
Just before the big series, his coach, Joe Bechard, left the team. Fifty years later, obsessed by that final loss and his coach’s abandonment of the team, Don decides to go in search of Joe and all the boys he played with.
While Don is driven by reasons he can’t name, Dugald is compelled to film his father’s search because he too is haunted by abandonment and loss.
The Summer of ‘48 is an intimate exploration of the emotions men keep from each other and a story about the power of forgiveness.
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Producer/Director/Writer
Dugald Maudsley
Editor
David Murray
Camera & Sound
Dugald Maudsley
Additional Camera & Sound
David Mills
Music Composed By:
Bruce Fowler
Video Online By:
MPI
Warren Chinn
Audio Post Production By:
Q-West
Andy Gargul, Audio Engineer
Colourists
Ted Poole
John Binninger
Production Executive for Life Network
Ann Harbron
Production Design
Carol Westcott
Special Thanks
Gillian Main & Callum Maudsley
Wayne Harley
Stuart Miller
Scott Taylor
“The Pitching Staff”
Lead: John Mallett
Tenor: Steve Stewart
Baritone: Charles Mathis,
Bass: Dave Wallace
The JJ Talman Collection, DB Weldon Library, The University of Western Ontario.
The Peewee All-Stars
Joe Bechard
George Cook
Irwin Goldstein
Bill Higgs
Ron Hair
John Jarrell
Ross Karlson
Marv Liley
Don Maudsley
Jere Maudsley
Dan Mendham
Dave Mendham
Ed Midgley
Harold Midgley
Barry Mussolum
Bill Pierson
Bill Shoebottom
Also
Norm Aldridge
Dale Creighton
Marg McCallum
Carol Westcott
Articles used with the permission of the London Free Press
Further reproduction without written permission from the London Free Press is prohibited.
This program may not be recorded for the purpose of classroom exhibition.
Produced by Infield Fly Productions Inc.
In Association with Life Network
Produced with the participation of
The Canadian Television Fund
Vision TV
The Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit
This film is dedicated to my father and my son
© Infield Fly Productions Inc MMI
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