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Film, Video I just don't dig him

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About this Item

Title

  • I just don't dig him

Summary

  • Dramatizes the problem of communication between father and son. When fourteen-year-old Ken comes home very late one night, he and his worried father have an argument. The events of the following day subtly suggest how father and son can learn to accept each other more realistically as individuals with strengths and weaknesses. Written in the teenager's language with an awareness of his resentments, angers, and needs, this open-ended film does not lecture, but helps focus discussion on such timely subjects as the generation gap and the teenager's search for identity and independence.

Names

  • Jacoby, Irving, direction; writing
  • Barlow, Roger, 1912-1990, camera
  • Connecticut. Department of Mental Health
  • Mental Health Film Board (New York, N.Y.)
  • International Film Bureau

Created / Published

  • United States : International Film Bureau, Inc., 1970.

Headings

  • -  Fathers and sons
  • -  Teenagers--Conduct of life

Genre

  • Social guidance films
  • Nonfiction films

Notes

  • -  Photographed by Roger Barlow ; edited by John Oettinger.
  • -  Made in cooperation with the states of Arkansas, North Carolina, and South Carolina.
  • -  Summary adapted from Educational film/video locator of the Consortium of University Film Centers and R.R. Bowker, 1986, vol. 2, p. 1626.

Medium

  • 1 video file (digital) (ca. 12 min.) : sd., col.

Source Collection

  • MacDonald (J. Fred and Leslie W.) Collection (Library of Congress)

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2020600711

Online Format

  • image
  • video

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Chicago citation style:

Barlow, Roger, Camera, Connecticut. Department Of Mental Health, Mental Health Film Board, and International Film Bureau. I Just Don't Dig Him. directeds by Jacoby, Irvingection; Writing United States: International Film Bureau, Inc, 1970. Video. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2020600711/.

APA citation style:

Barlow, R., Connecticut. Department Of Mental Health, Mental Health Film Board & International Film Bureau. (1970) I Just Don't Dig Him. Jacoby, I. W., dir United States: International Film Bureau, Inc. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2020600711/.

MLA citation style:

Barlow, Roger, Camera, et al. I Just Don't Dig Him. dir by Jacoby, Irvingection; Writing United States: International Film Bureau, Inc, 1970. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2020600711/>.