How To Judge Facts

Duration: 0:10:26

Genre: Educational

Creator: Coronet Instructional Films

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Money for the football team is being used to buy a film projector and causes a big stink! Helps students establish a judicious mental attitude toward fact-finding. Jim, high school sophomore, who writes a "sensational" story for his school newspaper. Learns to guard against platitudes, false analogies, assumptions, double meanings., When a rumor that the school's new motion picture projector is to be paid for from the football funds becomes widespread, a school reporter learns to judge facts. Discusses irrelevant facts, false analogies, false assumptions, and traditional beliefs as they influence one's judgment of the facts.

Complete Record: Money for the football team is being used to buy a film projector and causes a big stink! Helps students establish a judicious mental attitude toward fact-finding. Jim, high school sophomore, who writes a "sensational" story for his school newspaper. Learns to guard against platitudes, false analogies, assumptions, double meanings., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.