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Rules And Laws

Reel Number: 221470-02

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1951

Country: USA

Location:

TC Begins: 03:16:29

TC Ends: 03:30:04

Duration: 00:13:35

Rules And Laws Encyclopaedia Britannica 03:16:56 Father w/ three children by model railroad on plywood table. POV model train out of tunnel, CU young girl watching, puts car across tracks & causes wreck. Older kids move her aside, father reading, looks up but ignores baby crying. Father gets up & they talk about rules. “Too many rules...we have to have some rules.” 03:18:47 Father & six kids playing Hide & Seek. Choosing someone to be It by counting w/ fists. Father is it & hides eyes, slowly finds them hiding; boy helps dad find one & rest get mad. CU upset kids. 03:20:11 Play again. Looking, catching, laughing, CUs. Arguing. 03:21:45 CU sign: Street officially Closed Detour... LS w/ barrier across residential street. Argue over game, pointing & gesturing. Playing tag. 03:22:56 Beside train set talking about need for rules, “Why do we have rules about other things?” 03:23:35 Four kids crossing street in crosswalk; POV past park down town street, CU stoplight; intersection & pedestrian crossing, car waiting, others turning. Light changes. POV past signs. Cars stopping. Traffic jam. 03:24:15 Four kids cross towards camera. Playing hide & seek & argument. CUs. Smiling. 03:24:51 CU Street sign: Washington St. & Charles St. Traffic jammed. 03:25:11 Man before large town meeting, speakers (MOS) standing, voting. 03:25:47 One way sign, traffic moving, POV down street. 03:26:03 Man on tractor plowing, people shopping at fruit market, miner, people waiting to vote. CU ballot box; man out of voting booth, others voting. LS Congress. Int. Senate. 03:26:37 POV from boat in flood, woman carrying dogs up wooden walk above water. Men sandbagging & building levee. Flooding. Congress. House of Representatives, Model of river w/ technicians, measuring flow from model dam. Large dams w/ full spillways. Senate; town meeting. 03:27:45 Kids arguing when playing hide & seek game. 03:27:50 Townscape. View across pond, tilt up factory chimneys w/ black smoke, pan across many w/ heavy black soot. Pan back to town. Chimney w/o smoke. Pan across town w/ less pollution. 03:29:04 LS Team of horses pulling wagon. City w/ team & wagon holding up traffic. 03:29:15 CU model railroad engine out of tunnel. Kids playing. Boy argues w/ father about laws while playing w/ railroad. The End. Educational Film; Family Recreation; Learning; Teaching; Street Scenes; 1940s; 1950s; NOTE: One continuous minute sold at per reel rate.

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