Of Skates and Elephants

Duration: 11

Creator: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: As an excerpt from Our Vines Have Tender Grapes, this film shows a little boy and a little girl quarrelling over whose turn it is to have a pair of skates. The boy lies about his part in the quarrel and is given the skates to keep. After having made the decision the girl's father soon suffers remorse over the punishment inflicted on the girl, and takes her to see a circus as it goes through a nearby town in the middle of the night., Teaching Film Custodians classroom film of excerpts from the 1945 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer feature film, "Our Vines Have Tender Grapes", based on the George Victor Martin novel. When a father disciplines his young daughter for refusing to share her new skates with her cousin, the understanding mother reconciles them by suggesting he take the girl to the circus.

Complete Record: As an excerpt from Our Vines Have Tender Grapes, this film shows a little boy and a little girl quarrelling over whose turn it is to have a pair of skates. The boy lies about his part in the quarrel and is given the skates to keep. After having made the decision the girl's father soon suffers remorse over the punishment inflicted on the girl, and takes her to see a circus as it goes through a nearby town in the middle of the night., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.