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Appreciating Our Parents

Reel Number: 221160-07

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1950

Country: USA

Location:

TC Begins: 23:01:26

TC Ends: 23:12:06

Duration: 00:10:40

Titles 23:01:47 Young boy, Tommy, at home in his bedroom - notices it’s been tidied up & clothes mended while he was at school - messy room fades into tidy one. Kitchen messy after breakfast that morning - fades into clean & tidy kitchen; dirty clothes in laundry basket fade into clean ones hanging in closet; groceries fade into roast chicken prepared for dinner. 23:04:00 Father comes home from work - gives Tommy his allowance & mother cash for household. Kitchen messy after supper. Parents put Tommy to bed; remembers to put his allowance in piggy bank but remembers all the things he wants to buy - goes downstairs to ask father for more allowance. Tommy down stairs “and Tommy will get to see what Mother and Father do after supper”. 23:05:50 Peeps through kitchen door to see parents washing dishes, Tommy hears what parents were doing all day w/ fade to mother cleaning kitchen, tidying his room, ironing, cooking & mending clothes, and father working hard as mechanic? & getting paycheck. Father working on family budget & repairing broken chair. 23:08:36 Tommy back up to bed. “A team, that’s what a family is...and Tommy would like to be on that team” - cut to Tommy playing football - puts allowance in piggy bank. 23:09:40 Tommy fixing broken train track himself - bedroom tidy - dries dishes for mother - VS tidy bedroom, toys put away - helping father paint chair - shining father’s shoes - cleaning - parents give him bigger allowance. “Tommy knows he is a real member of his family team”. The End. 1950s Americana; Housewives; Housewife; Economics; Only Child; Family; Educational Films;

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