Crowded Out

Duration: 1050

Year Published: 1958

Creator: Agra Films Inc Agrafilms Inc.

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description:

CROWDED OUT (1958, sound, 29 min, color, 16mm)

Sponsor: National Education Association. Production Co.: Agrafilms Inc. Director: Irving Rusinow. Writer: Sid Abel. Camera: Pinckney Ridgell. Music: Gerhardt Maasz. Editor: Wilkes Straley. Resources: Copyright not registered. Holdings: AAFF, LC/Prelinger, MacDonald.

Film urging parents to join forces with educators to solve school overcrowding during the 1950s baby boom. In Crowded Out, a teacher is assigned so many students that she is unable to respond to their individual needs and must resort to rote instruction. Dissatisfied, she plans to resign. The film recommends that parents work through their parent-teacher associations to secure increased school funding. note: The credits also acknowledge the involvement of affiliated state education associations. A short version was released under the title I Wish I Could, Kathy. 

Complete Record: CROWDED OUT (1958, sound, 29 min, color, 16mm) Sponsor: National Education Association. Production Co.: Agrafilms Inc. Director: Irving Rusinow. Writer: Sid Abel. Camera: Pinckney Ridgell. Music: Gerhardt Maasz. Editor: Wilkes Straley. Resources: Copyright not registered. Holdings: AAFF, LC/Prelinger, MacDonald. Film urging parents to join forces with educators to solve school overcrowding during the 1950s baby boom. In Crowded Out, a teacher is assigned so many students that she is unable to respond to their individual needs and must resort to rote instruction. Dissatisfied, she plans to resign. The film recommends that parents work through their parent-teacher associations to secure increased school funding. note: The credits also acknowledge the involvement of affiliated state education associations. A short version was released under the title I Wish I Could, Kathy.