The Fun of Making Friends (1950)

★★★ · Friendly Film · Dodsworth the Cat · 2022-12-17

Barney and Betty are playing with a ball. The ball gets out onto the street. Barney runs after it. A car is coming. Cut to a shot of a horrified on-looker. Oh, wait. That would be a Sid Davis film. This is from the folks at Coronet, which specialises in happy endings and someone making a list. This is the story of Joey, wondering how he can make friends. Never fear. Mom has a list. Mom's list works, too. Barney and Betty become his friends. So does Fred. Wilma isn't in this short. It would seem by the tone of Eloise Kummer's narration this Coronet effort is aimed at small kids. Young children…

★★★ · Fun of making fun of people making friends. · Spuzz · 2003-09-14

This film which doesnt have any title or end credits, but just REEKS of Coronet influences features Joey, who looks VERY similar to Henry, the 'withdrawn' child of "Activity Group Therapy" fame. Anyways, he's stumped over how to make friends. He goes to his Mom to get some excellent advice. He makes a picture perfect printing of it and goes off to become the freindliest guy on the face of the earth. Definitions of friendship goes borderline here, as a young girl is shown taking an apple from a older male person, which may have taught kids that it's ok to make friends with everyone you meet. A…

★★★ · Instant Socialization · JayKay49 · 2013-02-12

Joey waltzes into the classroom (late - but so what, eh? everybody else seated and the teacher is busy with other kids, and the kid in front of him has already completed a Botticelli - quality picture). Joey disrupts the whole classroom with his apparently unusual (if not downright loopy) joviality - and he's still acting like a drunk 6 hours later at dismissal. Hey, Ma, the Old Crow goes in YOUR orange juice, not Joeys. Yeah, that's right little girl. Take an apple from a strange man.. and you could wind up turning tricks in some swanky hotel in Santo Domingo by tomorrow evening. But look at…