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SURVIVAL! (1964)

1964 · Short film · 26 min

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Note: if you are considering suicide or know someone who is, help is available 24/7/365. Speak with someone today. Just dial the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. Languages: English, Spanish. You can also text BRAVE to the Crisis Text Line at 741741, and a trained crisis counselor will receive it and respond within minutes. Then, the crisis counselor will help you de-escalate your situation and connect you to help locally.This film "Suicide" is an episode in a 1960s TV series called, “Survival!” that was narrated by James Whitmore. This film seeks to educate audiences about how to prevent suicides and what the Suicide Prevention Center (at the time a fairly new idea) does. The executive producer was veteran TV producer Sherman Grinberg. This film was directed by N.H. Cominos. It was written by Elizabeth Murphy. It was made with the cooperation of the Suicide Prevention Center in Los Angeles. (Note: founded in 1958 by Didi Hirsch, the Suicide Prevention Center was the nation’s first and a model for suicide prevention centers across the globe. The center still exists and served and trained more than 175,000 individuals in 2022.) Tourists gazing from a double-decker bus (0:09). Suicidal man stands on the side of a building (0:11). Man looks like he wants to jump off a building’s roof (0:15). Police officer and another man try to get him to back away from the edge of the roof (0:17). Man climbs over a building’s railing (0:20). James Whitmore, who narrates the episode, speaks to…

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26 minutes
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Ephemeral Films

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