One Thousand Hours

One Thousand Hours

Rejissyor: Handy (Jam) Organization. Producer's synopsis: "Group of high school boys who have a workshop and laboratory of their own learn, from a transport pilot who befriends them, that studies their teachers want them to learn are important, too; an aviator or any man in the modern world needs to know geometry, physics, geography, and all the other school subjects." This film was made to prevent teenagers from succumbing to cynicism during the Depression, when few job prospects were available. 07:15:10:16 LS teenage boy looking glum, walking with head down, exits high school from front entrance wearing letterman jacket and carrying books under one arms, other hand in pocket; passes camera. 07:15:33:14 VS CU wood sign on door hand painted “Invention Company Inc. No Admittance”; LS sulking teenage boy enters shed passes geeky teenage boy in glasses seated in front of chemical lab equipment, beakers, flasks of bubbling and steaming liquid; smaller boy with pliers working on machine part asks “what’d she make you do?” “Oh my Algebra homework. Nuts to school I’d like to quit.” “What ya kickin’ for, she only kept you an hour this time.” “Well who wants to spend an hour just to find out what ‘x’ equals.” Geeky boy in round black frame glasses looks up from stirring bubbling beaker “Well you found out didn’t you?” “So what, I’m sick of school, I wanna to be practical, I wanna work.” MS boy with oil and grease all over face “For crying out loud don’t you get enough work in school?” “Ah rats not that kind of work, I mean real work. Well I can learn more about airplanes in a garage than I can in school. I tell yah!” 07:16:41:07 Teenage boy in letterman jacket excitedly grabs pilot by the arm “I wanna talk business with you,” pulling him over to table by window in workshop. “Oh, trouble with the plane?” lifting model plane off counter then plays with it. “No, it’s about school, I wanta quit and get a job.” Pilot with concerned tone “I thought you wanted to be an aviator.” Points at pilot “That’s just it, if you

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