# A Date With Your Family (1950) by Edward C. Simmel

Advises children to do whatever is necessary -- even lie -- to achieve harmonious family relations. This portrait of manners among the affluent places a premium on pleasant, unemotional behavior, and contains some interesting do's and don'ts sequences. Key line: "These boys treat their dad as though they were genuinely glad to see him, as though they really missed him..."

Director: Edward C. Simmel. Cinematography: Harry F. Burrell. Script: Arthur V. Jones. Editor: Miriam Bucher. With Ralph Hodges ("Son"). Originally filmed in Kodachrome.

A Date With Your Family by Simmel-Meservey

- Kind: Short
- Year: 1950
- Runtime: 10 min
- By: Edward C. Simmel
- Genres: Children's
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_Date_With_Your_Family_(1950)_by_Edward_C._Simmel.webm)
- Licence or status: Public domain (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Edward C. Simmel
- Who can watch: Kids profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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