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Junior Chamber of Commerce, The (Working with Civic Organizations): A Film Lesson in Citizenship

Ephemeral film · 12 min

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Running time
12 minutes
Collection
Prelinger Archives

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★★★ · You do the work, I'll just watch. · Spuzz · 2008-12-17

Incredibly idealistic and somewhat naive perceptions on how to fix slums.. Even though, I guess, that wasnt the film's main intent (I think). The title of the film states it's about the Junior Chamber of Commerce, and we do see them at the beginning of the film.. They're kids! (get it? Junior?) and they're dealing with the seniors, aka the fatcats, on how to make the city better. Yhe fatcats suggest "beautifying" a "certain area of the city". These are of course, "mostly europeans". The kids decide, hey! We'll clean up a slum house, and that will make the other residents clean THEIR house as…