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EDUCATIONAL FILM # 4 - Girls Beware (1961)

Gossip (1960)In this beautiful looking Sid Davis film (I wonder if Sid Davis is beautiful looking?) We join a parent principal conference in progress. Jean (who, oddly enough, is the name of the gossip-catcher in Centron's 'The Gossip") has to quit school. Why? She's the victim of nasty rumors that she "parks in cars with boys" (as the Coronet film "Are You Popular?" would put it). We then see the horrid details of how this all took place. You see, Jean was the victim of a boy who's tried to make the move on her, HUMILIATED by this, he makes up a story about her, which naturally travels like wildfire. We then cut back to the conference room, and the principal says to hold off on it. The principal then talks to the guy who made up the rumor and says to tell the truth to all the students he told it to, which he obliges. Yeah RIGHT. May be true in the 50's, but I imagine would be dealt with today by telling Jean to deal with it herself. Highly recommended, just by the looks of the film itself. MPEG 4 -66.7 MB