A Date with Your Family (1950)

Directed by

Edward G. Simmel

Genre

drama

Country

United States

Runtime

10 min

Rating

2.8 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A short film from 1950 shows young people how to act politely during family dinners. It demonstrates proper behavior like greeting parents and making pleasant conversation to keep the meal enjoyable.

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What happens

A Date with Your Family is a 1950 10-minute social engineering short film presented by Simmel-Meservey, directed by Edward G. Simmel, and written by Arthur V. Jones, with Miriam Bucher as editor, primarily to show youth how to act and behave with parents during dinner to have a pleasant time. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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