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Something to Be Proud Of, (Part II)

Ephemeral film · 18 min

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0732 PA9026 Something to Be Proud Of 16 Koda RP

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Running time
18 minutes
Collection
Prelinger Archives
Internet Archive item
something_to_be_proud_of_2

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★★★★★ · Right On Target · ERD. · 2007-01-07

The National Home gives many children a chance to have a happy and productive life. This film effectiveness is the way it is presented: simple, honest, and sincere. It should be a model for residental homes that throw the children out when they hit 18 years old, or the countless inferior foster homes many of the "hard-to place" youngsters (that's what the social agencies call children who are hard to adopt) are sent to.

★★★★ · Frank is a real hoodwinker · Spuzz · 2005-06-11

At the beginning of this, Charles Adams, who, no really, he IS the narrator and the leader of the V.F.W., tells us that he could've spent the film talking about the financial figures and the various buildings. "But you don't judge an operation on how pretty the buildings are or how much money they have in the bank." It seems like Mr. Adams has seen that dreadful Jam Handy / Metropolitan Life film "Pages From An Open Book' as well. No, he focuses on one case, a boy Frank Bonnet, who I stress, IS NOT AN ACTOR! He's a boy from the home! A boy by the name of Frank Bonnet who certainly looks and…

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