# What's in a story?

-----Another issue. b&w Executive producer, Donald L. Sykes Summary Investigates what a story can tell readers. Uses the fable of The Milkmaid And Her Pail and James Thurber's The Unicorn In The Garden to demonstrate that every story has a plot and one or more messages. Urges readers to increase their enjoyment and knowledge by looking beneath the plot for the message.

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1963
- Runtime: 13 min
- By: Film Associates of California, Los Angeles
- Genres: Education, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/whatsinastory)
- 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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