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Film, Video Whoever you are

digital viewing copy

About this Item

Title

  • Whoever you are

Summary

  • "Groups of parents in one neighborhood in New York City, trying to overcome intolerance and juvenile delinquency, find the answer in a recreational program which encourages racial and religious tolerance"-- Selected films on child life, 1959, p. 68.

Names

  • Taylor, Joseph (Film editor), direction; editing
  • Praag, W. Van, direction; editing
  • Fink, Frances, writing
  • VFT Films

Created / Published

  • United States : Film Program Services, 1946.

Headings

  • -  Toleration
  • -  Reconstruction (1939-1951)--New York (State)--New York

Genre

  • Educational films
  • Nonfiction films

Notes

  • -  Narrators: Martin Wolfson, Anne Shepherd, Charlotte Holland.
  • -  Music, Gene Forrell.

Medium

  • 1 video file (digital) (ca. 21 min.) : sd., b&w.

Source Collection

  • MacDonald (J. Fred and Leslie W.) Collection (Library of Congress)

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2020600720

Online Format

  • image
  • video

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Chicago citation style:

Fink, Frances, Writing, and Vft Films. Whoever You Are. directeds by Taylor, Joseph Ection; Editing, and Praag, W. Vanection; Editing United States: Film Program Services, 1946. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2020600720/.

APA citation style:

Fink, F. & Vft Films. (1946) Whoever You Are. Taylor, J. E. E. & Praag, W. V. E., dirs United States: Film Program Services. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2020600720/.

MLA citation style:

Fink, Frances, Writing, and Vft Films. Whoever You Are. dir by Taylor, Joseph Ection; Editing, and Praag, W. Vanection; Editing United States: Film Program Services, 1946. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2020600720/>.