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Film, Video Angry boy

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Title

  • Angry boy

Summary

  • 10-year-old Tommy Randall is caught stealing money from his teacher's purse in an act motivated by the boy's wanting to strike back at the adult world that does not understand him. Tommy receives help from Dr. Marshall, a psychiatrist at the Huron Valley Guidance Clinic in Michigan. Tommy's hostility is traced back to his home life. Agnes Randall, Tommy's mother, takes out her own hostility toward her mother and husband on Tommy. A psychiatric social worker enables Agnes to better understand her relationship with her son. This dramatized story illustrates how counseling can help childen come to terms with anger.

Names

  • Jacoby, Irving, screenwriter, film producer
  • Hammid, Alexander, film director
  • Wessinger, James, actor
  • Hall, Robin, 1918-2005, actor
  • Kempf, Louise, actor
  • Glushanok, Peter, cinematographer
  • Boyajian, Aram (Filmmaker), film editor
  • Middlewood, Esther Louise, 1908-1978, consultant
  • Rennie, Thomas A. C. (Thomas Alexander Cumming), 1904-1956, consultant
  • Michigan. Department of Mental Health, presenter
  • Affiliated Film Producers, production company
  • National Association for Mental Health (U.S.), sponsor
  • Mental Health Film Board (New York, N.Y.), other
  • International Film Bureau, film distributor

Created / Published

  • United States : International Film Bureau, Inc., 1951.

Headings

  • -  Boys--Mental health--Michigan
  • -  Anger in children--Michigan
  • -  Child guidance clinics--Michigan
  • -  Mothers and sons--Michigan

Genre

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

Notes

  • -  ©1951 M.H.F.B. Inc. copyright notice on film
  • -  James Wessinger, Robin Hall, Louise Kempf.
  • -  Cameraman, Peter Glushanok ; editor, Aram Boyajian ; sound recordist, Jack C. Jacobsen ; production manager, Kevin Smith ; technical consultant, Esther L. Middlewood ; psychiatric consultant, Thomas A.C. Rennie, M.D.
  • -  Filmed in the summer of 1950 at the Huron Valley Child Guidance Clinic and the Michigan State Normal College in Ypsilanti, Michigan.
  • -  Parts of summary from Selected mental health films, Educational screen, and the National Film Preservation Foundation WWW site.
  • -  Sources used: National Film Preservation Foundation WWW site, viewed July 6, 2023; Saline observer, January 4, 1951, p. 1, viewed July 6, 2023 via Central Michigan University digital Michigan newspapers WWW site; Mental Health Materials Center (U.S.). Selected mental health films, 1967, p. 14, viewed online July 6, 2023 via Media History Digital Library; Educational screen, June 1951, v. 30, no. 6, p. 234-235, viewed online July 6, 2023 via Media History Digital Library; Battle Creek enquirer, August 12, 1951, p. 10, viewed July 6, 2023 via Newspapers.com; Ann Arbor Civic Theatre program: Strange bedfellows, April 13, 1951, viewed July 13, 2023 via Ann Arbor District Library WWW site.

Medium

  • 1 video file (digital) (31 min.) : sd., b&w.

Source Collection

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

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2023600241

Online Format

  • image
  • video

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Chicago citation style:

Jacoby, Irving, Screenwriter, Film Producer, Alexander Hammid, James Wessinger, Robin Hall, Louise Kempf, Peter Glushanok, Aram Boyajian, et al. Angry Boy. produceds by Affiliated Film Producersuction Company United States: International Film Bureau, Inc, 1951. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2023600241/.

APA citation style:

Jacoby, I., Hammid, A., Wessinger, J., Hall, R., Kempf, L., Glushanok, P. [...] International Film Bureau, F. D. (1951) Angry Boy. Affiliated Film Producersuction Company, prod United States: International Film Bureau, Inc. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2023600241/.

MLA citation style:

Jacoby, Irving, Screenwriter, Film Producer, et al. Angry Boy. prod by Affiliated Film Producersuction Company United States: International Film Bureau, Inc, 1951. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2023600241/>.