Bitter Welcome (1958, sound)

Description: "Psychologically sophisticated drama, produced for mental health and social professionals, about the struggle of a discharged mental hospital patient to adjust to his new construction job and win the acceptance of his fellow workers." - The Field Guide to Sponsored Films (2006)

can notes:
"Mental Health Film Board Inc. 8 East 93rd Street New York, NY 10029" / "Bitter Welcome"

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Subjects: 1950s, Mental health, Gender roles, Games and play, Labor

Tags: construction sites; foremen; manual labor; workers; hard hats; lunch breaks; fighting; conflict; smoking cigarettes; kitchens; mental health stigmas; bowling alleys; gutter balls; insomnia; couple sleeping in separate beds; discrimination; psychiatrists; psychiatry; social classes; working-class people; vulnerability; masculinity; relationships; construction workers eating lunch; film deterioration; physical fights; stress; mental health treatment; counseling;

Film Sponsor: The Mental Health Film Board and The State Mental Health Authorities of Minnesota Indiana Louisiana

Creator: Affiliated Film Producers, Irving Jacoby

Credits: The Mental Health Film Board presents
Sponsored by: The State Mental Health Authorities of Minnesota Indiana Louisiana
Endorsed by the National Association For Mental Health

Cast
Shuster: Paul S. Hostetler
Reni: Milton Schneider
Caroline: Virginia S. Hostetler
Curly: John Costello
Andy: Robert W. Corrigan
Butch: Thomas Markus
Ossie: Alvin E. Bertaut
McGuire: Roy H. Longmire
Mr. Roy: Scoop Kennedy

Photographed by: Richard Leacock
Script by: Irving Jacoby and Millard Smith
Edited by: Paul Falkenberg
Production Assistant: Louise Barlow
Psychiatric Consultant: Howard P. Rome, M.D.
Technical Consultant: Dale Cameron, M.D.

An Affiliated Film Production
Directed by: Irving Jacoby

The Mental Health Film Board
Leo Bartemeier, M.D.; M. Ralph Kaufman, M.D.; Paul V. Lemkau, M.D.; Robert T. Morse, M.D.; Howard P. Rome, M.D.; John P. Spiefel, M.D.; Harvey J. Tompkins M.D.; Alberto Jacoby, Exec. Dir.

Distributor:

Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Prelinger Archives

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

Production Date:

Release Date: 1958

Geographical Location: USA

Genre/Form: sponsored, educational

Language: eng

Rights:

Film Format: 16mm film

Element: release print

Color: b&w

Color Process:

Sound or Silent: sound

Film Soundtrack Type: optical, variable area

Edge Code: square

Frame Rate: 24 fps

Length (feet): 1295