As the film depicts, The Seeing Eye began in Europe in the 1920s when Dorothy Harrison Eustis (played by Eva Marie Saint) moved to Vevey, Switzerland from the United States to set up a breeding and training facility to teach German shepherds to be intelligent, strong, and responsible. Jack Humphrey (portrayed in the film by Gerald Hiken) was an American trainer and geneticist who helped Eustis develop their own scientific approach to training, particularly the concept of 'intelligent disobedience,' through which a dog could use critical thinking to disobey a command when completing it would lead to danger for the human. This factor is mentioned several times in the movie, and features prominently in the climactic courtroom scene, in which Buddy merely bypasses the congressmen's obstacle course rather than navigate it at his master's peril.

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