Quote:
"When Terri Nash first proposed the idea, there was only a modest hope that the NFB would agree to produce it. The subject—one passionate (and rather shrill) lecturer on a familiar topic—wasn't the sort of thing that usually appeals to filmmakers. Before putting the idea to the people in NFB's Studio D (the women's unit), Nash went to Washington and spent five days in the national archives, searching for film that was in the public domain and could be obtained at little cost. 'It was my first film,' she said recently, 'and I was trying to get material that would be really cheap, so that I could present them with a proposal that they couldn't turn down."
-- Robert Fulford

Source:
Fulford, Robert [Marshall Delaney, pseud.]. "Fallout: A controversial ruling by the U.S. government has made small-scale hits out of three Canadian documentaries." Saturday Night, May 1983. (p. 73)