Elderly Senior Citizens Aging Retirement Nursing Home Vintage 1948 Film DVD

Description: Please read & note: This is a Rights holding DVD created & produced by me and is not factory made or sealed. I strive to produce the best DVD's possible from the sometimes VERY old Public Domain material. Films that are public domain are unpreserved and not professionally remastered. I remaster all of my films myself to the best possible quality achievable. My DVDs are not the quality of todays Modern DVDs or Bluray discs. If you are looking for this kind of quality then these discs are not for you. Please note this when purchasing, but also know that all of the films are very watchable. All pictures are actual screen captures from the DVDs. To keep my prices as low as possible all my DVDs are delivered in plain paper DVD sleeves and the DVDs title will be labeled on the back of the DVD envelope. (See picture) All of my DVD's come with a menu for easy film selection. 　 Total runtime of this DVD is 24 minutes. Film 1: A Place to Live (1948) B&W Runtime 24 Minutes In this well-meaning but patronizing film, a postwar families life is strained when the wife's dad moves in with them. Son Bobby complains that since Grandpas moved in its no fun here anymore! And husband Jim gives wife Dottie an ultimatum: this is a house for children, not for an old man! Poor Grandpa struggled to support his family during the Depression and what does he get for his trouble? A grandson who only wants to watch TV, a granddaughter who resents the time her mom spends looking after Grandpa and an insulting, loud-mouthed son-in-law. The narrator piles on a lot of insulting platitudes about old people (this film doesn't mince its words) have no reason for life, and are alone, unwanted, useless. The film cuts to scenes shot in an idealized Old Peoples Home (this film was made before the term senior citizens was invented). Well-dressed, spry old people weave baskets and do woodwork for the camera. In this film (probably written and produced by young adults), the elderly are seen as incapable of anything worthwhile and nothing but a burden on the young. Jim and Dottie go talk to a female social worker about Grandpa instead of asking him directly what he wants. He would probably rather sleep on a park bench than live with his daughters obnoxious family. And in the end, he gets blamed for his predicament! According to the social worker, he should have started planning for his old age twenty years earlier. That's right, during the 1930's when he and most Americans had nothing, he should have been saving money so that he wouldn't be a burden in his old age. In the late forties, when this film was made, the elderly were a smaller portion of the population and didn't have the economic and political clout they have today. Younger people like Jim felt no compunction about pushing them aside. Release Date: 1948Entered the Public Domain: 1977 I claim ownership and rights to this media. All the films on this DVD have been researched and are copyright free or the copyrights have expired due to non renewal.

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