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About this Item

Title

  • Gossip

Summary

  • "Illustrates the detrimental effects of rumors through the experience of Jean, a newcomer in a high school, who becomes the victim of a malicious rumor started by Jack, her first date. After suffering considerable unhappiness, she is again accepted by her friends when her parents and the principal get Jack to confess and to tell the facts"--Educational film/video locator of the Consortium of University Film Centers and R.R. Bowker, 1986, vol. 1, p. 1471.

Names

  • O'Donnell, Homer, direction; camera
  • Clairmont, Leonard, 1904-1984, direction; camera
  • Sid Davis Productions

Created / Published

  • United States : Sid Davis Productions, 1953.

Headings

  • -  Gossip
  • -  High school students--Conduct of life

Genre

  • Social guidance films
  • Nonfiction films

Notes

  • -  Produced with the counsel and assistance of the Police Department, City of Inglewood.

Medium

  • 1 video file (digital) (ca. 11 min.) : sd., col.

Source Collection

  • Prelinger Collection (Library of Congress)

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2020600710

Online Format

  • image
  • video

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Chicago citation style:

Sid Davis Productions. Gossip. directeds by O'Donnell, Homerection; Camera, and Clairmont, Leonard, Ection; Camera United States: Sid Davis Productions, 1953. Video. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2020600710/.

APA citation style:

Sid Davis Productions. (1953) Gossip. O'Donnell, H. C. & Clairmont, L., dirs United States: Sid Davis Productions. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2020600710/.

MLA citation style:

Sid Davis Productions. Gossip. dir by O'Donnell, Homerection; Camera, and Clairmont, Leonard, Ection; Camera United States: Sid Davis Productions, 1953. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2020600710/>.