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American Movie Archives (美國電影檔案)
- Title
- Build Your Vocabulary
- Year
- 1948
- Abstract
- Dramatizes the story of a father, who, after finding himself at a loss for words at a public meeting, follows his son's lead and starts a campaign of vocabulary improvement.
- Notes
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Produced: Coronet Instructional Films
Run Time: 10:20
Audio/Visual: Sd, B&W - Keyword
- Literacy; Words;Self-improvement; Words;Self-improvement
- Theme
- MR. WILLIS ISSUES EXPLICIT ULTIMATUM
- Review
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Pete’s dad, Mr. Willis, has a problem (Pete doesn’t have a problem, which is unusual for a Coronet film). It seems that folks keep usin’ all these high-fallutin’ words around him, words like “explicit” and “anthology.” It darn near drives him nuts (in a very campy scene) until he starts writin’ in one a’ them-there vocabulary notebooks. Now he can finally understand what his wife is talking about! This is a very campy film. Its main character is pathetically stupid, so much so that you get the impression that the only thing keeping him in his job is the fact that he’s a white male. He even gets the book Fundamentals of Printing from the library to read for the first time––considering he works for a printing company this is probably a good idea. Good thing he’s not a doctor. This character, and the fact that an adult is portrayed as the clueless one for once, make this a unique and memorable Coronet film, prime for msting.
(Reviewer: Christine Hennig) - Location
- A/V room, 2/F