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Good Neighbor Family (1943)

1943 · Ephemeral film · 16 min

Synopsis

This relic of the "Good Neighbor Policy" attempts to show the similarities between U.S. and Latin American families.

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Running time
16 minutes

Reviews on the Internet Archive

★★ · Won't you be.. Won't you be.. · Spuzz · 2003-06-29

A somewhat blah overview comparision of American families to Latin American Families, the film starts off by showing us a VERY well to do Latin American family, which lead me to believe that this is not a balanced film, we compare their plantations of land, with the well-to-do upper middle class of Americans. After seeing this comparision, we then turn to the worker's families who work for the upper crust people we met in the first part of the film who don't make much money, and which utilize every member of the family (including children). We then finally switch over to the less well to do…

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