particularly one produced with the assistance of a government as credible as Canada and its national police force. He saw the film as a threat to the existence of the FBN. When Lindesmith traveled to Ottawa to view the film and attend a United Nations reception for it, Anslinger had the American ambassador request that Lindesmith not be allowed to see the film. The Canadian government declined the request. Anslinger asked that the Canadian government not distribute the film in the United States, and that it censor the film within its own borders; the Canadians rejected the request. He then had the film banned in the United States and requested that the Canadian government ban it in Canada; that request was refused. While the two men wrote competing New York Times editorials, Anslinger falsely claimed that the film had been banned under the Motion Picture Association code. The Women's Christian Temperance Union pressured Lindesmith to stop his campaign; Anslinger tried to involve J. Edgar Hoover. But Indiana University had stood behind Lindesmith; eventually, after years of being harassed themselves, physicians and lawyers sided with him. The American Bar Association, the American Medical Association and Indiana University formed a committee to study drug addiction and, in 1961, published a report, edited by Lindesmith, called Drug Addiction – Crime or Disease. Anslinger tried to stop its publication. His superiors told him to cease his campaign against Lindesmith; when he did not, he was scrutinized for insubordination and, in 1962, he was forced to resign. Technically, Drug Addict remains banned in the United States. Breakdown Anderson's brother-in-law was the Regina architect Ken Black. At the time, he was building Valley View Centre in Moose Jaw, a sprawling, 3,000-bed facility for the mentally disabled. In the course of doing research for his design, he had traveled to other institutions and shared with Anderson what he had seen. Anderson, who called the mental hospitals of the day “snake pits”, was inspired to make a film on a mental hospital, to be called Breakdown (1951). No Ontario psychiatrist would let him into a hospital, so he went to Protestant Hospital for the Insane in Verdun, Quebec. For research, he spent a month living on the grounds, spending 20 hours a day with the patients. But he couldn't film there; he was able to get permission to film at Essondale, near Vancouver. With a crew of nine,