When You Grow Up
When You Grow Up is a short film from 1973 released on 16mm. It is held in the Prelinger Archives collection.
Film for middle-school children about vocational choices and opportunities in the U.S.
Great shots of early 1970s children and adults pursuing everyday activities. Most of the shots are quick and take place in and around the city of Los Angeles. VS young children (multicultural) doing household chores: taking out garbage, setting table, mowing lawn Housecleaner Housepainter Librarian Bicycle mechanic Kids walking around and playing �You will grow up. You will get a job. Working. What do you want to be when you grow up?� VS construction workers Auto mechanic Faces of men working Baker Nurse Carpenter Traffic enforcement officer Woman looking at sweater for sale Woman under hair dryer reading magazine (brief but good) Pan over canned food cans coming off cannery assembly line Workers in Kerns food plant inspecting output Man on ladder painting lamppost White-collar (boss) Woman secretary Painted Yellow Cab driver (Los Angeles airport) Mainframe computer operators CU Univac 1108 tape drive (good) CU hands operating circular saw VS carpenter Cabinetmaker African American mechanic working on auto engine Group of students studying auto engine repair CU hands calculating with slide rule CU young woman talking on phone; zoom out to show she is a secretary sitting at a desk CU dental drills and tools; zoom out to show dentist working Optometrist Health care workers on rounds checking out female patient in hospital bed Driving down highway next to truck with red trailer marked �RCA� Truck driver getting into cab Secretary going into files Cars on freeway, dense but not jammed Santa Fe RR train going from left to right VS series of zooms into and out of sketches showing workers performing different types of jobs (70s-type sketches) Pediatrician examining African American young boy Woman letter carrier African American man in suit behind desk (nameplate: �Les Shaw�) GS white working-class family at dinner VS MS and CUs kids playing with one another, walking around
CUs of kids looking pensive, ostensibly thinking about their future careers| When You Grow Up | |
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| Produced by | Films\West, Inc., California |
Production companies | Films\West, Inc., California |
| Distributed by | Films\West, Inc., California |
Release date | 1973 |
Running time | 11:22 |
| Language | English |
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