Todd - Growing Up In Appalachia (1970)
1970 · Short film · 12 min · dir. Herman J. Engel
Synopsis
A hungry Appalachian boy finds someone's food stamps and must decide what to do; a 1970 sociodrama on poverty and morality, with a one-room schoolhouse where the teacher cooks lunch from government cans.
Synopsis, reviewed
Details
- Director
- Herman J. Engel
- Running time
- 12 minutes
Cast & crew
- Herman J. Engel Director
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · Dilemma in Poverty · Barbara Z · 2017-02-08
I used this film to remind people that immigration is not the cause of poverty in the USA, and that it has always been around in some regions... I recalled seeing the move many years ago, and just posted a link to it on Facebook, where people are convinced refugees are diverting money from poor, white Americans.
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