Metric Mini Doc Part 5 B-Roll

Footage on models for converting to the metric system in American education and society. This segment focuses on Toronto, examining how Canadians are adjusting to economic transitions from converting from the customary system to metric. Footage include interviews with professionals and people on the street who talk about the problems of consumer trust in product labeling and quantities (like buying gas by the liter). It also shows how Toronto television and radio use metric in reporting weather.

This mini documentary is dated February 1977.