The Garden party

Duration: 24

Year Published: 1974

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: This adaptation of the Mansfield story is transferred from post-World War I England to post-World War II New England. Elaborate preparations are made for an afternoon garden party when word comes that a neighboring farmer has been killed in an accident. The shy, adolescent girl wants to cancel the party but her mother refuses. Bringing a basket of food to the widow, the girl is taken up to see the deceased man and makes her first acquaintance with death.

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