Thrift: A Film Lesson in Citizenship (silent)

Description: Social guidance film in the form of narrative sequences centered on two children in Los Angeles, living in a home that includes a large garden and chickens. Benjamin Franklin appears to the children and their frustrated parents as an apparition come alive from their reading of "Poor Richard's Almanac" and guides them through lessons around responsibility and care-aking of animals, garden, tools and other possessions, also thoughtfulness toward others and financial management.

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Subjects: Domestic life; Home economics; Citizenship

Tags: social guidance; behavior; cause and effect; economy; planning; fantasy; historical; Benjamin Franklin; Poor Richard; chickens; roller skates; gardening; children; socialization

Film Sponsor:

Creator: F.S. Wythe Pictures Corporation

Credits:

Distributor: De Vry School Films Inc.

Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Mogull Bros.

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

Production Date: 1921

Release Date:

Geographical Location: Los Angeles, California; California; USA

Genre/Form: social guidance, educational

Language:

Rights: "Copyright 1921 F. S. Wythe Pictures Corporation." Public domain.

Film Format: 16mm film

Element: reduction print

Color: color

Color Process: tinted

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code:

Frame Rate: 18 fps

Length (feet): 277