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American Movie Archives (美國電影檔案)
- Title
- Marriage Is a Partnership
- Year
- 1951
- Abstract
- Flashback on the problems, adjustments and transformations occurring in the first year of a couple's married life.
- Notes
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Produced: Coronet Instructional Films
Sponsor: N/A
Run Time: 15:27
Audio/Visual: Sd, B&W - Keyword
- Marriage;Gender roles;Gender roles
- Theme
- Remarkable, perhaps a bit long
- Review
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More or less similar to other social guidance films, but perhaps different in it's promotion of marriage as an equal partnership. The marriage between Dotty and Pete is still pretty traditional - Dotty quits her job to be a homemaker once they are married - but some more modernistic ideas come out, such as the idea that the two newlyweds decide together how the money that Pete earns will be spent, and the small mentions of sex. Apparently, the "educational collaborator" listed at the beginning, Lemo Rockwood, was a professor at Cornell University who's marriage course advocated sexual frankness and pre-marital experimentation, so it's easy to her (albeit limited) stamp on this film. A bio of Rockwood and info on her course can be found here - Lemo Rockwood
(Reviewer: Lewis Payne) - Location
- A/V room, 2/F