I Think they Call Him John

Duration: 27 0:27:00

Genre: Educational

Creator: J. Carruthers | Mass Media Ministries

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description:  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.

Complete 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.