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College: Your Challenge

Reel Number: 221271-08

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1953

Country: USA

Location:

TC Begins: 11:13:05

TC Ends: 11:23:05

Duration: 00:10:00

College: Your Challenge; Coronet Instructional Films College campus & students walking to buildings. Ray in dormitory room thinking, sits down & interupted by loud roommate, Howie returning from tennis practice. They talk about needing to study; Ray is writing to kid brother about college. Reads beginning of letter, they discuss what to write. Howie: “what do colleges look like”. 11:15:26 Small college; large college; southern; northern by ocean; aerial over large campus; variety of buildings. Chemical lab & professor talking to students & students doing experiments w/ beakers, test tubes. Lecture & prof at blackboard, student w/ slide rule; taking notes. Library w/ students studying. 11:17:28 Dorm room & Ray talking to Howie: “College is a challenge to find out...” Howie: “College can be a waste of time, you get out of it just what you put into it...” Montage of basketball practice, baseball, horseback riding, chess match; students walking in sun, into building; MS four college women; square dance caller & dancers (MOS), fellow playing grand piano. More shots of students on campus. 11:19:17 Ray & Howie talking: “I guess you could call it education for life.” “...all around us here are fellows who work hard to put themselves to put themselves thru college if it means that much to them.” Visuals of student waiter taking tray of found out & servicing to table of students; another at cash register in store. Bulletin board listing scholarships. 11:20:22 ROTC class w/ naval students. Back to dormitory Howie talks about what it is that one sees in a college man. Montage of students, college buildings. More dormitory & students walking across campus in mild winter weather seen from above. Instructional Film; University Education; 1950s Youth; Young People; Science;

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