Play Is Our Business (Reel 2) (silent)

Description: Advocates for preschool for young children and extracurricular activities for children of all ages. In this reel, young children, middle-school aged children and teenagers take field trips in Central Park, publish a newsletter, grow vegetables in a victory garden, and use hammers and nails in shop class to build life-size structures. Also with lunchtime and nap time, and hot weather activities in an outdoor playground. (Silent elements) (Reel 2 of 2). See item 204267 for Reel 1.

can notes:
D.S - 201-1+2
"Play is our Business" ORIG NEG Reel1 Reel 2 PICTURE

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Subjects: 1940s, Children, Youth, Games and play, Schools, Education, Gender roles

Tags: children's play; giant blocks; building forts; playground; jump rope; recess; sandboxes; basketball; playgrounds; integrated schools; children taking outdoor showers; summer child care; summer school; hoop rolling; children reading; children's books; reading time; classrooms; children setting table; lunch; children eating lunch; nap time; napping; children sleeping on cots; wood shops; boy sawing wood; boys and girls hammering; woodshop class; typing on typewriter; office technology; writing; notebooks; journalism; newsletters; editing; publishing; literacy; technology; Play School Torch newsletter; magnets; dress-making; sewing; home economics; school gardens; gardening; victory gardens; kitchen gardens; vegetables; sandwiches; hard boiled eggs; picnics; field trips; cooking; Central Park; serving food to other children; nature education; outdoor education; picnics;

Film Sponsor:

Creator: Sun Dial Films

Credits: A Sun Dial Production

Distributor:

Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Prelinger Archives

Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive

Production Date: circa 1945

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Geographical Location: USA; New York; New York, New York

Genre/Form: educational

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Film Format: 16mm film

Element: negative

Color: b&w

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Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code:

Frame Rate: 24 fps

Length (feet): 375