Charley Junior's School Days (1949)
1949 · Short film · 8 min · dir. Halas & Batchelor
Synopsis
Charley junior is told about his future schooldays by a celestial nursemaid. post war education system. Education Act of 1944. new schools.
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- Director
- Halas & Batchelor
- Running time
- 8 minutes
Cast & crew
Halas & Batchelor Director
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★★★★ · Post War Socialist Utopia · JayKay49 · 2012-10-29
What appears to be a 19 week gestational age baby emerges from the external os and thank goodness a nursemaid was in the uterus to prevent the impending premature birth. That was a close one. The rest of the film concentrates on the newly developed education system for Britain which actually isn't fundamentally bad (wow....vocational training for 12 year olds so that sexually active 18 yr olds already have marketable job skills to support themselves in the wake of their (sometimes unpredictable) social activities). But then we see how socialism is all about beauracracies and expensive…







