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Face of Youth

Ephemeral film · 28 min

Details

Running time
28 minutes
Collection
Prelinger Archives
Internet Archive item
Face_of_Youth_Univ_of_Wisc

Reviews on the Internet Archive

★★★ · Somewhere, a child's picture is without a staple.. · Spuzz · 2012-06-21

Rather poor technically, but somewhat interesting storywise tale of a boy named Ralph, and how many people try to coax Ralph out of his shyness and whatnot. This is rather confusingly told, as we start out by mainly focusing on a community nurse and her job. Slowly, it develops into ralph's story. You kind of wonder how things have changed when nurses were a "uninvited but welcome guest" that barged into your home and started asking you questions. After doing just that to Ralph's Mom (and wearing a heavy plastic apron?!) she notices Ralph and decides to stalk the boy, or something, following…