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Film, Video Bitter welcome Come back

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Title

  • Bitter welcome

Other Title

  • Come back

Summary

  • Tommy Shuster attempts to hold down a new construction job after being released from a psychiatric hospital following successful treatment. Tommy encounters the fears and prejudices of his new coworkers against people with mental illnesses when they speculate about who the "mental patient" on their crew could be. One coworker, Reni, is especially vocal in his unease with the situation and is successful in stirring up other coworkers. Tommy's wife Caroline is supportive, but he is torn between the belief that his wife loves him and the fear that she remains with him out of pity. When a dramatic crisis occurs at the construction site, Tommy learns to accept friendship and also to live with the realization that there will always be those who are afraid of him. This dramatization helps the general public to understand the problems faced by people with mental illnesses when they return to job and home.

Names

  • Jacoby, Irving, film director, screenwriter
  • Smith, Millard (Screenwriter), screenwriter
  • Hostetler, Paul Smith, 1921-2002, actor
  • Schneider, Milton, actor
  • Hostetler, Virginia S., 1925-2012, actor
  • Leacock, Richard, cinematographer
  • Falkenberg, Paul, film editor
  • Cameron, Dale Corbin, 1912-1993, consultant
  • Mental Health Film Board (New York, N.Y.), presenter
  • National Association for Mental Health (U.S.), other
  • Affiliated Film Producers, production company
  • International Film Bureau, film distributor

Created / Published

  • United States : International Film Bureau, 1958.

Headings

  • -  Mentally ill--Employment--United States
  • -  Employees--Mental health--United States
  • -  Vocational rehabilitation--United States
  • -  Mentally ill--Marriage--United States

Genre

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

Notes

  • -  Paul S. Hostetler, Milton Schneider, Virginia S. Hostetler, John Costello, Robert W. Corrigan, Thomas Markus, Alvin E. Bertaut, Roy H. Longmire, Scoop Kennedy.
  • -  Photographed by Richard Leacock ; edited by Paul Falkenberg ; production assistant, Louise Barlow ; psychiatric consultant, Howard P. Rome, M.D. ; technical consultant, Dale Cameron, M.D.
  • -  Filmed in 1958 in Louisiana.
  • -  Variant title, Come back, is from a 1958 Daily advertiser article.
  • -  Parts of summary from Selected mental health films.
  • -  Sources used: National Film Preservation Foundation WWW site, viewed February 15, 2024; Daily advertiser (Lafayette, Louisiana), March 2, 1958, p. 27, viewed February 15, 2024 via Newspapers.com; Selected mental health films, 1967, p. 16, viewed online March 20, 2024 via Media History Digital Library.

Medium

  • 1 video file (digital) (10 min.) : sd., b&w.

Source Collection

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

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2024603061

Online Format

  • image
  • video

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Chicago citation style:

Jacoby, Irving, Film Director, Screenwriter, Millard Smith, Paul Smith Hostetler, Milton Schneider, Virginia S Hostetler, Richard Leacock, Paul Falkenberg, et al. Bitter Welcome. produceds by Affiliated Film Producersuction Company United States: International Film Bureau, 1958. Video. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2024603061/.

APA citation style:

Jacoby, I., Smith, M., Hostetler, P. S., Schneider, M., Hostetler, V. S., Leacock, R. [...] International Film Bureau, F. D. (1958) Bitter Welcome. Affiliated Film Producersuction Company, prod United States: International Film Bureau. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2024603061/.

MLA citation style:

Jacoby, Irving, Film Director, Screenwriter, et al. Bitter Welcome. prod by Affiliated Film Producersuction Company United States: International Film Bureau, 1958. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2024603061/>.