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1954 - Educational Film: Eat For Health (main title missing)

Reel Number: 221314-08

Color: Colour

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1954

Country: USA

Location:

TC Begins: 05:39:07

TC Ends: 05:48:45

Duration: 00:09:38

1954 - Educational Film: Eat For Health (main title missing) CU Young boy, Ralph, dialing black rotary telephone, pull back to see Judy & Frank beside him as he asks his mother if he can stay for dinner. “Eating w/ others is fun”. 05:39:37 Family at dinner table, passing food; Ralph: “I don’t like peas”. Ralph picks at food. “Ralph’s good time w/ Frank & Judy is spoiled.” 05:40:34 Ralph in bed tired, Judy & Frank stop to see if he can go skating. He says he doesn’t feel good; they leave. Mother: “Maybe he can go tomorrow.” Narrator: “Ralph just hasn’t had the pep he should have.” He looks out window thru venetian blinds; touches his five fingers remembering what teacher said to eat to be healthy. 05:41:35 Diagram of fingers labeled: Fruit, Vegetables, Meat & Eggs, Milk & Cheese, Bread & Butter. CU bread on tray; cereals in bowls; CU butter, boy puts on bread. Kids drinking milk, CU milk bottle & glasses & poured. Girl smiling. Cheeses on large tray. 05:43:26 Freckled boy eating meat. Several shown on plates including fish & chicken. Eggs cooked in various ways. Older kids eating vegetables w/ “prettiest girl in the class” eating. CU carrots, cauliflower & others. 05:45:37 Orange juice being drunk; grapefruit, tomatoes, & others. Fruit bowl w/ cherries, apples, bananas, grapes beside bowl of nuts. All the kids standing around table eating & talking; look energetic. 05:46:59 CU of Ralph going over the five food groups, hungry & reaches for candy bar but decides to eat better. Dinner table & trying to eat some of everything with his family. Happy looking Ralph. CU of soup, egg, cereal being served, Drinks milk on candle-lit table. Going out to play w/ friends. Abrupt end. Instructional Film; Lecture; Didactic; Elementary School; Oddities; 1950s; NOTE: One consecutive minute sold at per reel rate.

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