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Film, Video The steps of age Original title: Stairs

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About this Item

Title

  • The steps of age

Other Title

  • Original title: Stairs

Summary

  • Mrs. Potter, a widowed woman of 62, is at the critical age when she is crossing the threshold into the last quarter of her life. The dramatized story reveals her confusion, her fears, and her first uneasy steps towards insight as she attempts to adjust to life in the home of her married daughter.

Names

  • Odom, C. C. (Cleve Carrington), 1887-1973, presenter
  • Levitt, Helen, film producer
  • Maddow, Ben, 1909-1992, screenwriter, film director
  • Spencer, Rose, actor
  • Sylvia, Harvard, actor
  • Agee, Emma, actor
  • Meyers, Sidney, 1906-1969, film editor
  • Kaufman, M. Ralph (Moses Ralph), 1900-1977, consultant
  • Film Documents, Inc., production company
  • South Carolina. Department of Mental Health, presenter
  • National Association for Mental Health (U.S.), sponsor
  • International Film Bureau, film distributor
  • Mental Health Film Board (New York, N.Y.), other

Created / Published

  • United States : International Film Bureau, Inc., 1950.

Headings

  • -  Aging--Psychological aspects
  • -  Older people--Psychology
  • -  Older women--United States

Genre

  • Educational films
  • Sponsored films
  • Short films
  • Nonfiction films

Notes

  • -  ©1950 M.H.F.B., Inc. copyright notice on film
  • -  Originally released as a motion picture in 1950 as The stairs.
  • -  Rose Spencer, Harvard Sylvia, Emma Agee, Manny Kirschner, Dimitra Sundeen, Gretchen Mohegan, Georgia Tolliver.
  • -  Photographed by George Jacobson ; assistant cameraman, Max Glenn ; electrician, Joseph Coffey ; sound recording, Lawrence Mezey ; unit manager, Robert Gurney ; production assistance, William Levitt, Janice Loeb ; edited under the supervision of Sidney Meyers ; psychiatric consultant, M. Ralph Kaufman, M.D.
  • -  Parts of summary from Mental health motion pictures: a selective guide and Films in psychiatry, psychology & mental health.
  • -  Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary (Short Subject), 1951
  • -  Sources used: Mental health motion pictures: a selective guide, 1960, p. 74, viewed online June 1, 2023 via Media History Digital Library; Columbia record, February 28, 1951, p. 14, viewed June 1, 2023 via Newspapers.com; Los Angeles times, May 30, 1951, p. A7, viewed online June 1, 2023 via ProQuest Historical Newspapers; Films in psychiatry, psychology & mental health, 1953, p. 235, viewed online June 1, 2023 via Media History Digital Library; Oscars WWW site, viewed June 1, 2023.

Medium

  • 1 video file (digital) (24 min.) : sd., b&w.

Source Collection

  • American Archives of the Factual Film Collection (Library of Congress)

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2023600206

Online Format

  • image
  • video

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Chicago citation style:

Odom, C. C. , Presenter, Helen Levitt, Ben Maddow, Rose Spencer, Harvard Sylvia, Emma Agee, Sidney Meyers, et al. The Steps of Age. produceds by Film Documents, Inc.Uction Company United States: International Film Bureau, Inc, 1950. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2023600206/.

APA citation style:

Odom, C. C., Levitt, H., Maddow, B., Spencer, R., Sylvia, H., Agee, E. [...] Mental Health Film Board, O. (1950) The Steps of Age. Film Documents, Inc.Uction Company, prod United States: International Film Bureau, Inc. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2023600206/.

MLA citation style:

Odom, C. C. , Presenter, et al. The Steps of Age. prod by Film Documents, Inc.Uction Company United States: International Film Bureau, Inc, 1950. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2023600206/>.