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09:10:14 Junior High School class - kid runs in w/ letter from editor of dictionary re their new blackboard that isn’t actually black - kids gather round.
09:10:38 Flashback to teacher explaining that the new blackboard is called the “Eye Saver” & lighter color is better for your eyes; hyperactive kid thinks it’s amazing & scrawls his name on it. Teacher writes on ‘black’board - ‘Contest - Find a word for this new “blackboard”’. Kids offer words they want to know origins of - ‘dirndl’ - ‘jeep’ - ‘blackboard’ - ‘axis’ etc. Kids look in enormous dictionary under ‘New Words Section’ - CUs looking up words w/ cutaways to scenes explaining origin.
09:13:01 Dirndl - woman wearing dirndl down country lane - subtitle & VO explains the word derives from German ‘Dirne’ for a maid or girl. ‘Borrowed words’ - CU sombrero - ‘mouton’ - woman putting on fur coat - from French for sheep. Soldiers into jeep w/ other words used superimposed - ‘blitzbuggy’ - ‘bantam’ - ‘general purpose car’ - abbreviated to ‘GP’ hence ‘jeep’.
09:14:11 Woman in Edwardian dress using wind-up telephone - Greek words ‘tele’ & ‘phone’. CU woman’s hand inside stockings - ‘nylon’ = invented word. ‘Changed Words’ - shots of writing on blackboard w/ VO re origin of word in actual wooden boards once used.
09:15:02 CU spinning globe - VO “something else that we call an axis almost turned the world upside down a few years ago - newspaper headline ‘Rome-Berlin Axis Treaty Signed’. Early biplane w/ subtitle ‘Aeroplane’ - fade to modern passenger aircrat w/ shortened name ‘Airplane’. School kids offer examples of borrowed, invented & changed words. Kids vote on new name for pastel coloured blackboard - decide on “platel” & write letter to editor of dictionary telling him of new word.
09:17:59 Kids gather round reading dictionary editor’s reply. Summary of how words are made by borrowing, changing & inventing - VO “it becomes part of the common language only when many people use it...we who use words make words”. The End.
English Language; 1948; Communications; Communicating; Educational Film;
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Titles. 09:10:14 Junior High School class - kid runs in w/ letter from editor of dictionary re their new blackboard that isn’t actually black - kids gather round. 09:10:38 Flashback to teacher explaining that the new blackboard is called the “Eye Saver” & lighter color is better for your eyes; hyperactive kid thinks it’s amazing & scrawls his name on it. Teacher writes on ‘black’board - ‘Contest - Find a word for this new “blackboard”’. Kids offer words they want to know origins of - ‘dirndl’ - ‘jeep’ - ‘blackboard’ - ‘axis’ etc. Kids look in enormous dictionary under ‘New Words Section’ - CUs looking up words w/ cutaways to scenes explaining origin. 09:13:01 Dirndl - woman wearing dirndl down country lane - subtitle & VO explains the word derives from German ‘Dirne’ for a maid or girl. ‘Borrowed words’ - CU sombrero - ‘mouton’ - woman putting on fur coat - from French for sheep. Soldiers into jeep w/ other words used superimposed - ‘blitzbuggy’ - ‘bantam’ - ‘general purpose car’ - abbreviated to ‘GP’ hence ‘jeep’. 09:14:11 Woman in Edwardian dress using wind-up telephone - Greek words ‘tele’ & ‘phone’. CU woman’s hand inside stockings - ‘nylon’ = invented word. ‘Changed Words’ - shots of writing on blackboard w/ VO re origin of word in actual wooden boards once used. 09:15:02 CU spinning globe - VO “something else that we call an axis almost turned the world upside down a few years ago - newspaper headline ‘Rome-Berlin Axis Treaty Signed’. Early biplane w/ subtitle ‘Aeroplane’ - fade to modern passenger aircrat w/ shortened name ‘Airplane’. School kids offer examples of borrowed, invented & changed words. Kids vote on new name for pastel coloured blackboard - decide on “platel” & write letter to editor of dictionary telling him of new word. 09:17:59 Kids gather round reading dictionary editor’s reply. Summary of how words are made by borrowing, changing & inventing - VO “it becomes part of the common language only when many people use it...we who use words make words”. The End. English Language; 1948; Communications; Communicating; Educational Film;