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Playing Together (1950)

1950 · Ephemeral film · 9 min

  • Short

Synopsis

Young boys Donnie and Duncan hop on their bicycles and spend the day together. After stopping by the playground, it's off to the pool where they watch a swim meet before hopping in the water. Back home, they share ice cream.

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Running time
9 minutes

Reviews on the Internet Archive

★★★ · No Rocks In The Pool Son. · Spuzz · 2004-03-04

Although made by the same people who made the deliriously great "Dining Together", (this film even has the same singsong piano music) the film somewhat is less fun when it tells the story of Donny and Duncan, it's a bit more pat, the music is a little more intrusive, the whole thing is too dark, and the situations seem a little more boring. The kids go to a playground where they see another kid bossing himself around, they go swimming where they watch a race where they DON'T congratulate the winner, but they scramble up to the loser to console them! Then they jump in the pool itself (where…

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