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Ted PeshakSchool Rules: How They Help Us (1953)

Discusses rules and stresses the point that rules are ways of making life more pleasant, smooth and safe. SHOWS EVERYDAY SCENES IN WHICH RULES INFLUENCE OUR BEHAVIOR. SHOWS WAYS NEW STUDENT CAN LEARN RULES, WHY EXCEPTIONS CAN'T BE GRANTED.


This movie is part of the collection: Prelinger Archives

Director: Ted Peshak
Production Company: Coronet Instructional Films
Audio/Visual: sound, color
Keywords: Motion Pictures: In Education; Social Guidance

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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Reviewer: bestpbx - - January 7, 2009
Subject: Girls breaking the rules?????
I guess all the reason there are no girls breaking the rules is that all the bad girls who broke the rules were under the bleachers with various and sundry football players and the good girls were all working in the library.

Reviewer: lucca.online - - January 7, 2009
Subject: Nice, but...
I would also like to view a 2009 VERSION!!!!
LOL

Reviewer: ERD - - January 23, 2006
Subject: SHORT BUT EFFECTIVE
Made in 1953, this short film does a good job in teaching that generation the reasons for school rules.

Reviewer: Marysz - - December 18, 2005
Subject: No exceptions!
A 1953 Cornet film (in color!) that explains that not obeying school rules "spoils the game." In this film, it's only boys who need to be reminded to follow rules. Are girls already so compliant they don't need to be reminded? The only girl we see, Betty, doesn't hesitate to give classmate John a hard time when he tries to take out another library book without returning the his overdue one. And then there's Alvin, who "forgets" to bring in his gym shoes (still a favorite to this day) and ends up in the principal's office. To show how everyone takes turns waiting at red lights, the film shows a wonderfully deserted 1950's intersection. These old films show a less populated and more leisurely America where kids walked to neighborhood schools and dapper-looking traffic cops directed whatever traffic there was.

Reviewer: Spuzz - - July 31, 2004
Subject: Rules to fall asleep over
Somewhat blah overview of why schools need so many rules. This later Coronet film is nice to look at in color, but I was somewhat glazed over by the story, which tells of a principal's encounters with various students. The only highlight comes with the dream sequence and Allan's peculiar choice of shirt..

Reviewer: cashel - - October 29, 2003
Subject: good pupils
A typical film of the 1960,s, in color,telling boys how to behave at school...I would like to see a 2003 version