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School Rules: How They Help Us

Reel Number: 221697-05

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1953

Country: USA

Location:

TC Begins: 02:42:27

TC Ends: 02:52:43

Duration: 00:10:16

Titles. Policeman directing traffic in front of elementary school as kids cross street. Boys playing basketball and softball on playground. 02:44:02 Kids in halls, up stairs, into library and checking out books. Boy told he can’t check out more books as some are overdue. He goes to principal (who is narrating) to ask for exception to the rules. Exceptions spoil the game.” 02:45:38--02:45:47 Traffic at intersection and daily traffic. 02:45:47 Staged exaggerated stage-set of someone in library to give out exceptions. 02:46:26 Boy out of office past secretary. Looks at bulletin board in hallway and posters that show rules. Teacher answering question in hallway. 02:47:08 Boy into principal’s office sent from gym class. “I must have been absent that day”. 02:48:01 Softball game and boy watching sandlot game. Invited to play, asks questions and then plays after learning about rules. Same thing in shop class where boys are assigned to work benches; rules posted. Asks permission & learns rules. 02:49:48 Principal gives boy slip to get back into class. Ernie comes in to ask about rules because of kids going the wrong way on the one way stairway. Feels stupid trying to tell kids to go back upstairs. They decide to talk about it to the student committee who set up the rules. 02:51:25 School board meeting and handing out papers. Stack of handbooks of rules. Girl in front of classroom, kids raise hands to talk. 02:51:58 Library and checking out books. Boy at locker in hallway. Changing sign on stairway and kids happy. The End. Instructional Films; Educational Films; Learning; Teaching; Discipline; Order; 1950s; NOTE: heavy scratch EXCEPT 02:43:47--02:44:03; 12:48:26 to end.

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