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Good Eating Habits

Reel Number: 221599-04

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1951

Country: USA

Location: Studio

TC Begins: 07:40:11

TC Ends: 07:50:24

Duration: 00:10:13

Good Eating Habits Coronet Instructional Films 07:40:21 Family eating dinner, passing food; CU of table & food. MCUs faces. Bill can’t enjoy it like his parents & sister, he has stomach ache from not eating properly during the day. 07:41:10 Bill in room trying to play w/ train set - mother puts him to bed. 07:42:30 Flashback to Bill late to breakfast, gulps down orange juice, cereal, eggs & bacon; rushes off to school. 07:43:43 Bill into school lunch room, CU gobbling sandwich so he can go out to play. 07:44:15 Bill out of candy store after school drinking soda pop; having spent his lunch money on junk - signs for Eskimo Pie & Coca-Cola - MCU gulps down soda & stuffs all his candy into his mouth, then eats some cookies. 07:44:51 Bill at supper picking at food & yawning. Bill in bed, mother turns out light. Nightmare / dream sequence - Bill tosses & turns in bed looking scared as plates of half-eaten food, sweets, & a stomach appear superimposed in mid-air while narrator says its his bad eating habits. 07:46:02 Bill gets up in morning, stretches, puts on robe then down to breakfast. Bill, grinning broadly now, takes tiny sips of his orange juice & milk, & chops up bacon into tiny pieces - VO “doesn’t it taste extra good that way!” Family smiling. 07:48:14 Bill walking to school; in class, notices clock - 11:00 - still not hungry! Looking increasingly demented, Bill sits down to enjoy his lunch “slowly” then skips to the water fountain for a drink. 07:49:03 Mother gives him snack of crackers & milk after school, then he goes out for some “hard play” - flying kite w/ friends. 07:49:30 Supper - Bill proudly asking for seconds. Happily playing w/ train set. GOOD family life; Health; Nutrition; Diet; Greed / Gluttony; Illness; Childhood; 1950s; Elementary School; Cafeteria; Educational Films; Americana;

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