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Film, Video Activity group therapy

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Title

  • Activity group therapy

Summary

  • "Training film made for mental health and social workers. Activity Group Therapy explores the development of socially maladjusted boys, 10 and 11 years old, over 65 weeks of activity group therapy. Using concealed cameras and microphones, the film records how the subjects act out their disturbances and documents their interactions with a therapist and with other boys. A dense and absorbing record of children's vernacular speech and body language, this unrehearsed film argues for encouraging troubled boys to form a club and work things out themselves"--National Film Preservation Foundation WWW site, viewed May 3, 2023.

Names

  • Slavson, S. R. (Samuel Richard), 1890-1981, contributor
  • Columbia University Educational Films, presenter, film distributor
  • Campus Film Productions, Inc., production company
  • Nathan Hofheimer Foundation, contributor
  • Jewish Board of Guardians, copyright claimant
  • Copyright Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • United States : Columbia University Educational Films, 1950.

Headings

  • -  Activity group therapy
  • -  Boys--Mental health

Genre

  • Instructional films
  • Sponsored films
  • Nonfiction films

Notes

  • -  MP766 U.S. Copyright Office
  • -  Copyright: Jewish Board of Guardians; 1Aug50; MP766.
  • -  Filmed in 1949-1950 in New York, New York.
  • -  Produced under a grant from the Nathan Hofheimer Foundation, Inc.
  • -  "Activity group therapy as developed at the Jewish Board of Guardians New York City by S.R. Slavson, Director of Group Therapy"--At head of film.
  • -  "Both hidden camera and hidden microphone techniques were used to film Activity Group Therapy over a two-year period. The clubroom...was an especially-designed area which carried a contractor's name on the door. Through this device and the careful concealment of equipment, the youngsters never realized they were being filmed. An area was set apart for operational equipment and all observations and filming was done through turret-like openings of special one-way glass"--Business screen magazine, 1955, number 3, volume 16, p. 50, viewed online May 10, 2023 via Media History Digital Library.
  • -  Sources used: MI Film and Television catalog card; NAVCC Acquisition file (Copyright, 1950) Copyright selection list; Copyright catalog, motion pictures, 1950-1959, p. 2, viewed May 3, 2023 via the Internet Archive; National Film Preservation Foundation WWW site, viewed May 3, 2023; Reporter dispatch (White Plains, New York), April 24, 1950, p. 13, viewed May 4, 2023 via Newspapers.com; Films in psychiatry, psychology & mental health, p. 62, viewed online May 10, 2023 via Media History Digital Library; Business screen, 1955, v. 16, no. 3, p. 50, viewed online May 10, 2023 via Media History Digital Library.

Medium

  • 1 video file (digital) (54 min.) : sd., b&w.

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2023600152

Online Format

  • image
  • video

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Chicago citation style:

Slavson, S. R. , Contributor, Presenter Columbia University Educational Films, Contributor Nathan Hofheimer Foundation, Copyright Claimant Jewish Board Of Guardians, and Copyright Collection. Activity Group Therapy. produceds by Campus Film Productions, Inc.Uction Company United States: Columbia University Educational Films, 1950. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2023600152/.

APA citation style:

Slavson, S. R., Columbia University Educational Films, P., Nathan Hofheimer Foundation, C., Jewish Board Of Guardians, C. C. & Copyright Collection. (1950) Activity Group Therapy. Campus Film Productions, Inc.Uction Company, prod United States: Columbia University Educational Films. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2023600152/.

MLA citation style:

Slavson, S. R. , Contributor, et al. Activity Group Therapy. prod by Campus Film Productions, Inc.Uction Company United States: Columbia University Educational Films, 1950. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2023600152/>.