# You and Your Family

Social guidance film depicting family conflict situations with actors staging a range of alternative approaches to conflict resolution. Film includes prompts for spectator discussion. From the "Art of Living" series. When Mary's family refuses to let her go out on a date, what should she do? What happens when family members shirk their chores? How can Bill and his father agree on what time Bill should get home at night? These scenes are shown dramatically, then summarized, and each spectator is invited to join in the discussion. Great footage of typical late-1940s family in various typical family situations acting out three to four different possible outcomes to those situations. Girl is asked out on date but parents say she can’t go. Mother asks for help with dishes at dinner table and family makes excuses. Teenage son comes home late and wakes up father knocking over table with phone, and Father says he can’t go out for a week. Synopsis: CU old-fashioned telephone with rotary dial; phone rings, camera pans out and 1940s teenage girl answers phone. VS teenage girl on phone “Yes this is Mary. Oh hello Frank! What? You do! Well just a minute, I better ask”; girl asks parents if she can go to dance out on lake with boy. Mother denies girl and Father confirms. Narrator asks “What should she do next?” Mary tells boy on phone she can’t go and sulks. Scene is repeated where girls asks parents if she can go but this time seeks a compromise to have him over after parents have said…

- Kind: Film
- Year: 1946
- By: Association Films, B.K. Blake, Inc, George Blake
- Genres: Children's, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/200382_You_And_Your_Family)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- 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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