The Children Must Learn

THE CHILDREN MUST LEARN (1940, sound, 13min, b&w, 35mm)

Sponsor: Alfred p. Sloan Foundation. production Co.: documentary Film productions inc.; Educational Film institute, new york university; university of Kentucky. director: Willard Van dyke. Writer: Spencer pollard. Camera: Bob Churchill. Music: Fred Stewart. Editor: irving Lerner. narrator: Myron McCormick. resources: Copyright not registered; Living Films, 30–31; EFG (1943), 93; Film Forum Review staff, “The Children Must Learn,” in Ideas, 159–60. Holdings: LC/prelinger, Macdonald.

Documentary profiling an Appalachian farming family struggling to scrape out a living. Linking education and economic development, The Children Must Learn suggests that better schooling, especially in agricultural techniques, would bring improvement. note: Made in conjunction with And So They Live (entry 22).

THE CHILDREN MUST LEARN (1940, sound, 13min, b&w, 35mm) Sponsor: Alfred p. Sloan Foundation. production Co.: documentary Film productions inc.; Educational Film institute, new york university; university of Kentucky. director: Willard Van dyke. Writer: Spencer pollard. Camera: Bob Churchill. Music: Fred Stewart. Editor: irving Lerner. narrator: Myron McCormick. resources: Copyright not registered; Living Films, 30–31; EFG (1943), 93; Film Forum Review staff, “The Children Must Learn,” in Ideas, 159–60. Holdings: LC/prelinger, Macdonald. Documentary profiling an Appalachian farming family struggling to scrape out a living. Linking education and economic development, The Children Must Learn suggests that better schooling, especially in agricultural techniques, would bring improvement. note: Made in conjunction with And So They Live (entry 22).