Cipher in the snow

United States, 1973

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A child asks to be let off the school bus - and dies in the snow. Neither students nor teachers know him - his favourite teacher, who barely remembers him - goes to see his parents. In an attempt to write an obituary the teacher reads through the child’s school reports. The people around him changed him into a nobody. Designed for teachers to motivate a concern for the needs of every child.

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director

Keith J. Atkinson

producer

Wetzel O. Whitaker

production company

Brigham Young University

Duration

00:21:00:00

Production places
United States
Production dates
1973

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