# Telling an Old Story

As she starts out to write a story about an eighty-seven-year-old social services center director and ends up writing about a nineteen-year-old boxer. Madeleine discovers that the young boxer and the image of the American Dream he represents are more complicated than she had first realized and in these complications finds the key to the form of her story. Demonstrates the need to discover purpose for writing. From the Writers Writing series. Directed and produced by Charlotte Zwerin. An Annenberg / CPB pro. aFollows Madeleine Blais, a Pulitzer Prize-winning feature writer for the Miami Herald.

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1985
- Runtime: 27 min
- By: Latouche, Henri de, 1785-1851
- Genres: Education, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/tellinganoldstory)
- 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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