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I Think they Call Him John

 I Think they Call Him John Distributed by Mass Media Associates; 1720 Chouteen Ave; St Louis; MO; 63103 ; Tel. (314)436-0418DC: MMA Produced by Carruthers, JackPC: CARTHJ Year published 1970 Grade Level: C A Distributed on media: 1 film reel (26 min.), optical sound, 16 mm. Color?B & W Length: 26 MIN Library of Congress Registration 72-700421 Description: Pictures the loneliness of retired people by following the Sunday activities of a retired miner who is a widower on a pension and without children. Topics: Industry-And-State; Labor-And-Laboring-Classes; Old-age; Retirement-; Loneliness-, Depicts the loneliness, desolation, and slow passage of time in the life of a retired miner who has no family or outside interests. Uses mental flashbacks of an active past life to illustrate the slow pace of a typical day in the present. Implies the need for developing pre-retirement interests which can make old age more meaningful.

Credits

Directed by
John Krish
Written by
John Krish
Complete catalog record
 I Think they Call Him John Distributed by Mass Media Associates; 1720 Chouteen Ave; St Louis; MO; 63103 ; Tel. (314)436-0418DC: MMA Produced by Carruthers, JackPC: CARTHJ Year published 1970 Grade Level: C A Distributed on media: 1 film reel (26 min.), optical sound, 16 mm. Color?B & W Length: 26 MIN Library of Congress Registration 72-700421 Description: Pictures the loneliness of retired people by following the Sunday activities of a retired miner who is a widower on a pension and without children. Topics: Industry-And-State; Labor-And-Laboring-Classes; Old-age; Retirement-; Loneliness-, Depicts the loneliness, desolation, and slow passage of time in the life of a retired miner who has no family or outside interests. Uses mental flashbacks of an active past life to illustrate the slow pace of a typical day in the present. Implies the need for developing pre-retirement interests which can make old age more meaningful., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.

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Sources

  1. 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, creator, length, format, color, sound, genre, description, catalog record
  2. Wikidata · Q16994601 ↗ — year, country, credits

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