YOUR TOWN—A STORY OF AMERICA

Duration: 10 min

Year Published: 1940

Creator: National Association of Manufacturers

Format: 16mm

Sound: Sound

Description: Produced by Audio productions. At Gerry how the crowd was gathered outside. He stopped to see "the fun." Someone on a soap-box was shouting "Go down with the big interests" and then a stone was thrown through the factory window. But Mike, a policeman and friend of the boy's grandfather, took him home in protective custody. After a stroll Gramp and Jerry sat down on the City Hall steps to rest. The old man knew the town when it was just a "vacant lot." He recalled the time when Manson came and built the settlement at the factory site. He saw the factory constructed and the town grow up around it. Jerry learned how every man, woman and child has a stake in the success of that factory. Grandfather, after his grandson to the factory to become some American fundamentals, and Jerry was grateful that the influence of a factory to this community.

Complete Record: Dewey number: 711 Audience level: el-jh-sh-c-adult Format/cost: 16-sd-loan Distributors / rental: Chicago Board of Education Film Council loan; University of Kentucky 35c; Montana State Library of Visual Aids; Oregon State System of Higher Education 50c

Metadata Source:Educational Film Guide 1946