Designed to help students develop a technique for fact-finding, this film tells the story of a high school student who writes a sensational story for his school newspaper; his fellow students begin to learn to discount platitudes, false analogies, unfounded assumptions, and double meanings.
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Collection
In ACMI's collection
Credits
Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
313071
Language
English
Subject categories
Communications, Infrastructure, & Transport → Thought and thinking
Education, Instruction, Teaching & Schools → Thought and thinking
Educational & Instructional → Educational films
Educational & Instructional → Instructional
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Judgment
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Thought and thinking
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Black and White
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)