Close Harmony

Duration: 29 min.

Year Published: 1981

Creator: LCA

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: A group of elementary school students and senior citizens join in a unique intergenerational choir. Shows how the children's misconceptions are changed to positive feelings about older people., Fourth and fifth graders from the Friends School in Brooklyn and fifty-four senior citizens are brought together by music teacher Arlene Symons in a unique intergenerational chorus. Introducing themselves through pen pal letters, the children and their senior colleagues meet for the first time in a scene filled with exhilaration. The children reveal their misconceptions about aging. The film concludes with a concert of this unique choir.

Complete Record: , Fourth and fifth graders from the Friends School in Brooklyn and fifty-four senior citizens are brought together by music teacher Arlene Symons in a unique intergenerational chorus. Introducing themselves through pen pal letters, the children and their senior colleagues meet for the first time in a scene filled with exhilaration. The children reveal their misconceptions about aging. The film concludes with a concert of this unique choir. NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.