House I Live In, The

Genre: Educational

Creator: Ross (Frank) Productions Ltd.

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description:

SPONSOR: Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith. PRODUCTION CO.: Frank Ross Productions Ltd. DIRECTOR:Mervyn LeRoy. PRODUCER: Frank Ross. WRITER: Albert Maltz. CAMERA: Robert De Grasse. MUSIC: Axel Stordahl.The Home Economics Story44EDITOR: Philip Martin Jr. CA From the series Frank Sinatra. RESOURCES: Copyright 9Nov45 LP13665; Lawrence F. LaMar,“Sinatra’s Anti-Bias Movie Short Scores Hit at Preview,” Chi Def, Oct. 13, 1945, 14; Film Forum Reviewstaff, “The House I Live In,” in Ideas, 202–3; Mental Hygiene, 159. HOLDINGS: AAFF, GEH, LC, LC/Prelinger,Prelinger, UCLA, UGA.Advocacy film commissioned by the civil rights organization to discourage ethnic and racialprejudice. Caught in a dispute that assumes ethnic dimensions, a group of boys find common interests through the intervention of Frank Sinatra, who tells a story and sings two songs. NOTE: The title number was written by Earl Robinson and Lewis Allan [Abel Meeropol]. This widely distributed film, produced at the end of World War II, discourages prejudice but disparages people of Japanese ancestry.

Complete Record: SPONSOR: Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith. PRODUCTION CO.: Frank Ross Productions Ltd. DIRECTOR:Mervyn LeRoy. PRODUCER: Frank Ross. WRITER: Albert Maltz. CAMERA: Robert De Grasse. MUSIC: Axel Stordahl.The Home Economics Story44EDITOR: Philip Martin Jr. CA From the series Frank Sinatra. RESOURCES: Copyright 9Nov45 LP13665; Lawrence F. LaMar,“Sinatra’s Anti-Bias Movie Short Scores Hit at Preview,” Chi Def, Oct. 13, 1945, 14; Film Forum Reviewstaff, “The House I Live In,” in Ideas, 202–3; Mental Hygiene, 159. HOLDINGS: AAFF, GEH, LC, LC/Prelinger,Prelinger, UCLA, UGA.Advocacy film commissioned by the civil rights organization to discourage ethnic and racialprejudice. Caught in a dispute that assumes ethnic dimensions, a group of boys find common interests through the intervention of Frank Sinatra, who tells a story and sings two songs. NOTE: The title number was written by Earl Robinson and Lewis Allan [Abel Meeropol]. This widely distributed film, produced at the end of World War II, discourages prejudice but disparages people of Japanese ancestry.