Play Is Our Business (Reel 1) (silent)

Description: Advocates for preschool for young children and extracurricular activities for children of all ages. In this reel, the virtues of structured play environments including finger painting, puppetry, clay modeling, music, and blocks is promoted against the social ills that face unsupervised children with nothing to do such as lighting fires in alleyways, free riding city buses, and smoking cigarettes. (Silent elements) (Reel 1 of 2). See item 204268 for Reel 2.

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D.S - 201-1+2 "Play is our Business" ORIG NEG Reel1 Reel 2 PICTURE

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Subjects: 1940s, Schools, Education, Children, Youth, Games and play, Cities

Tags: woods; woodlands; children; boys; fishing rods; boys fishing in lake; harvesting hay; rural life; horse-drawn hay cart; working animals; farm work; tractors; farming; farm life; farm labor; New York city streets; boys playing in the street; children climbing fire escape; boys climbing on city bus; free riding; boys smoking cigarettes; unsupervised children; girls playing with fire in alley; dirty children; ungroomed children; cardboard boxes for toys; supervised children; classrooms; integrated classrooms; integrated groups of children; Black children; Latino children; school yards; outdoor craft tables; play dough; clay modeling; school rooms; activity rooms; playing house; domestic chores; gender roles; home economics training; laundry training; hygiene training; Asian children; mock kitchens; mock dining rooms; mock food preparation; toy telephones; Stories We Like written on blackboard; story hour; children reading; children's books; reading time; teachers; playing with hand puppets; musical instruments; drums; percussion; triangle; cymbals; music classes; children singing; boys playing with blocks; playing pirates; pirate ships; make believe; imaginations; painting; theater; puppetry; representational puppets; art classes; finger painting; modeling clay; African American people; play schools; exiting the school building; outdoor education; field trips; George Washington Bridge; connecting outdoor to indoor education; pre-school; preschool;

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Creator: Sun Dial Films

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Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Prelinger Archives

Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive

Production Date: circa 1945

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Geographical Location: USA; New York; New York, New York

Genre/Form: educational, documentation

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Film Format: 16mm film

Element: negative

Color: b&w

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Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

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Frame Rate: 24 fps

Length (feet): 272