Who's Right?

Duration: 22 0:22:00

Genre: Educational

Creator: Affiliated Film Producers.

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Dramatizes the experiences of a young married couple whose quarrels undermine their happiness and prevent the development of adult love based on understanding. The husband sees his wife as spoiled, scheming and selfish. The wife sees her husband as controlling, uncaring and tyrannical. After keeping house and grocery shopping all day, the wife waits for the husband to come home from work. When he arrives he is preoccupied and complaining about the atmosphere at work. He does not seem to notice that his wife worked hard all day as well, especially to create a special dinner. Without saying a good word about the house, dinner or her looks, the husband talks on and on about what he has been working on at work, and the difficulties he has encountered. She is bored of hearing about his job and bored of her life at home. She would appreciate some attention and affection. He needs to feel that what he does is important. They argue about whether they are paying attention to each other and about how the money should be spent. Each of them wants to make up but neither wants the other to think he or she is right., As one of a series based on Marriage for Moderns, by Henry A. Bowman, this film pictures the unhappy and quarrelling Carsons after eleven months of marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Carson alternately voice their inner thoughts and feelings of dissatisfaction about each other, both justifying their respective actions. An open argument reveals the shortcomings of each partner that have contributed to the conflict and ends with Mrs. Carson hurling the wedding band to the floor as the narrator asks, "Who's right?"

Complete Record: Dramatizes the experiences of a young married couple whose quarrels undermine their happiness and prevent the development of adult love based on understanding. The husband sees his wife as spoiled, scheming and selfish. The wife sees her husband as controlling, uncaring and tyrannical. After keeping house and grocery shopping all day, the wife waits for the husband to come home from work. When he arrives he is preoccupied and complaining about the atmosphere at work. He does not seem to notice that his wife worked hard all day as well, especially to create a special dinner. Without saying a good word about the house, dinner or her looks, the husband talks on and on about what he has been working on at work, and the difficulties he has encountered. She is bored of hearing about his job and bored of her life at home. She would appreciate some attention and affection. He needs to feel that what he does is important. They argue about whether they are paying attention to each other and about how the money should be spent. Each of them wants to make up but neither wants the other to think he or she is right., As one of a series based on Marriage for Moderns, by Henry A. Bowman, this film pictures the unhappy and quarrelling Carsons after eleven months of marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Carson alternately voice their inner thoughts and feelings of dissatisfaction about each other, both justifying their respective actions. An open argument reveals the shortcomings of each partner that have contributed to the conflict and ends with Mrs. Carson hurling the wedding band to the floor as the narrator asks, "Who's right?", NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.