movies SixthCha1949 2002-07-16 00:00:00 Handy (Jam) Organization Problems of underfunded and outdated schools. 1949 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/ B&W Sd prelinger 2002-07-16 00:00:00 National School Service Institute 0 17:08 HIGHLIGHTS SUCH PROBLEMS IN EDUCATION AS BUILDING CONSTRUCTION & MODERNIZATION, CLASS SIZE, MORE TEACHERS & UP-TO-DATE EDUCATIONAL TOOLS. PORTRAYS DANGERS OF PUBLIC COMPLACENCY TOWARD EDUCATION. Ken Smith sez: This is a film about overcrowded schools -- a real problem in the opening years of the post-war baby boom. A zealous, melodramatic narrator ("I'm 'The People'," he explains) tells us that "good schools will help keep America free," and tries to convince us to spend more of our tax dollars on new and improved classroom facilities. A forum of five "average Americans" debate the merits of this issue; someone occasionally speaks from an empty sixth chair, but it's only "the voice of complacency," so it's safely ignored. Lots of footage of overcrowded elementary schools. American flag waving in breeze; Capitol building; suburban homes; doctor examining child; boy scouts and scoutmaster raising flags; children climbing onto school bus; playgrounds; monkey bars; montage of Americans at work, play and churchgoing. an empty table in a school; mother bringing little boy to school. home building; tenements, lines of laundry hanging to dry Many scenes of school overcrowding: cafeteria; school room; gym class; Various scenes of "modern" classrooms; home economics rooms; student laboratories; Voiceovers: "We cannot meet the complexities of modern life with outmoded school systems. We must keep our educational standards abreast of the swift-moving times in which we live if we hope to preserve our national heritage. Our American way of life." anti-communism: "Foreign 'isms' are like germs. They can't attack a healthy body." "Freedom is subject to attack from the inside as well as out. It's hard to get people to sense danger, just as it's hard to get people out to vote." "Would you willingly go to a place day after day that depressed you? That made you feel unwelcome because there wasn't room for you? . . .Then we shouldn't expect our children to either." "Good schools will keep America free." 20:10:25 American flag waving 20:10:38 Military parade. Close ranks of marching soldiers. 20:10:42 Crowd on street waving American flags and cheering. 20:10:40 CU many marching soldiers 20:10:50 U.S. Capitol Building 20:11:00 Drive through suburbia 20:11:10 Doctor and nurse examine little boy's ear 20:11:12 Fat boy scout leader and scouts raise and take down American flag from pole with Washington Monument in background. 20:11:24 Children in playground and on jungle gym. 20:11:32 Children cross street to school. 20:11:42 Independence Hall, Philadelphia 20:11:49 City skyscrapers with ferry boat in foreground (New York? Chicago?) 20:11:55 Field of waving wheat 20:11:57 Detroit Tigers 20:11:58 New York Yankees 20:11:59 Family in living room 20:12:00 Worker in factory over machine 20:12:01 Printing presses 20:12:03 Church service in cathedral 20:12:13 School board meeting around table. They talk about freedom and the American way. People disappear leaving empty chairs, then they magically reappear. 20:16:00 Mother walks child to school. 20:16:15 Parent and child in dark school hallway. Mother knocks on classroom door. 20:16:55 Overcrowded classrooms. Children trying to share desks. Overcrowded hallways. 20:18:01 Carpenters building houses 20:18:00 City slums with laundry hanging on lines. 20:18:06 Poor children skipping rope on sidewalk in front of tenement 20:18:17 Children doing gymnastics in gymnasium. It is very crowded. 20:18:37 Girl with tray of food in crowded school cafeteria cannot find a seat 20:19:12 High school students seated in classroom grab books and scramble for next class. 20:19:30 High school kids scramble for books at lockers in crowded hallways 20:19:37 Boy drinks from hall water fountain which is much too low and leaks into a bucket. 20:20:30 Pan of class of high school students (many dim bulbs here). 20:21:29 Children on playground swings take turns 20:21:40 Teacher hands out books to class 20:22:09 Model of ideal school room. Science labs. Home economics room. Before and after shots. 20:23:50 High school girls in sewing class 20:23:00 High school orchestra rehearsal. 20:24:10 Students in classroom watch movie projected onto screen 20:24:20 Students in science lab. THE END EDUCATION SCHOOLS BUILDING CONSTRUCTION MODERNIZATION CLASSROOMS TEACHERS STUDENTS MEDIA AUDIOVISUAL TEXTBOOKS PUBLIC POLICY ECONOMICS POLITICS SOCIAL SCIENCE <BR> 2005-01-13 09:36:44 United States 1 0 Education 1004 MovingImage 1949 08030