It Happens Every Noon (1966)
1966 · Ephemeral film · 13 min
- Documentary
Synopsis
It Happens Every Noon describes the national school lunch program, which is designed to provide from a third to one-half of the student's daily nutritional needs. Explains the importance of a well-balanced midday meal.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Released
- 1966-01-01
- Running time
- 13 minutes
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★ · Every Child Deserves an Attrocious Lunch · Christine Hennig · 2005-05-07
This mid-60s film encourages all schools to sign up for the Federal School Lunch Program. Different kinds of lunch programs are shown, from fancy hot lunches down to sandwiches in snacks, in different kinds of schools. Most striking is the clueless racism (while the white schoolkids get a hot lunch in a nice cafeteria, the black kids get sack lunches) and sexism (in the rural schools, the girls have to make the lunch so the teacher can work with the younger children, boys no doubt) and the portrayal of southern rural one-room schoolhouses, one where the teacher has to pick up the food from…
★★★★ · Lunch for all! · Spuzz · 2003-11-08
A nice heartstring-pulling (but badly titled) film telling us how important the School Lunch program is to schools, and how these students need to have type A lunches (from all 4 four food groups!) I was actually touched by the scenes of the kids having lunch right at their desk, as no other facility was available, and the resourcefulness of the country school teacher and how much respect she got from her students. Very nicely done. Highly reccomended!