AMERICAN PORTRAIT

Duration: 26 min

Year Published: 1940

Creator: Inst of life ins

Format: 16mm

Sound: Sound

Description: Produced by J. Walter Thompson Company thru Wilding Pictures. Hal Roach studios. "This is the story of the improvements and better ways of life which have come into being as a result of the last few hundred years. Inventiveness and ingenuity created the improvements; but the force which brought them about was the economic law of supply and demand, salemanship." "The story deals with the Smith family, of whom the youngest member, Barbara, is unimpressed with its achievements, until Grandpa sets her straight showing her how her own family helped sell America into a better way of life and the highest standard of living in the world." "This film shows the place of the life-insurance salesman in the community. Very interestingly it demonstrates that he is as essential as the doctor, language teacher, and other professional people. Recommended for social science, vocational guidance and economic citizenship classes." Secondary educ.

Complete Record: Dewey number: 658.8 Audience level: sh-adult Format/cost: 16-sd-loan Distributors / rental: University of Connecticut 50c; D. T. Davis Company; Elliott Film Company; Ideal Pictures Corporation loan; University System of Georgia, Division of General Extension 65c; University of Missouri 75c; Modern Sound Pictures, Inc; University of Minnesota $1.50; Modern Talking Picture Service, Inc loan; National Council of Young Men's Christian Associations loan

Metadata Source:Educational Film Guide 1946