Forest Fire Truck Driver Orientation - SCTC

Description: While waiting for his owner to arrive in Palo Alto, a dog named “Pudge” follows two boys into the Palo Alto Children’s Theatre. The group tours the theatre’s stage, its backstage spaces, and watches on as actors rehearse for a live radio program., “Pudge Goes to the Theatre” was produced under the Palo Alto Children's Theatre production company, “Children's Productions.” The founder of the Children's Theatre, Hazel Glaister Robertson, noted that she set out to create educational and narrative films for children because the “motion picture industry cannot, because of box office, make films for child audiences without adding adult overtones” (The San Francisco News; Aug. 7, 1945). Film shipping boxes found in our archives suggest that these films were rented and shipped nationally.