Who Cops Out?
Who Cops Out? is a short film from 1970 released on 16mm. It is held in the Prelinger Archives collection.
About adolescence, with dramatizations of troubles teens face.
| Who Cops Out? | |
|---|---|
| Produced by | mhfb |
Production company | mhfb |
| Distributed by | mhfb |
Release date | 1970 |
| Language | English |
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- Subjects
- adolescence, sociology, luck
Shot List
- First conversation (0:01:51)
A pregnant teen talking a friend who is female.
0:02:42 - Friend: Does your mother know yet? Teenager: No, but she will. And maybe she'll find out that she can't keep pushing me around. 0:03:05 - Male Narrator, condescending tone: Some people don't want to know why they do certain things. They'd like to call it luck or accident, so that they are not absolutely responsible for their troubles.
- Second
- A football player who hates school.
0:03:18 - Male Narrator, continuing from previous: Others can face reality.
- Third
- A high-school dropout who believes that his boss values his work.
- Fourth
- A student who enjoys learning.
0:06:25 - Student: [School is about] earning a right to get in a rat race
0:07:15 - Extreme close up of student
- Fifth (0:07:31)
- A woman who moved to San Francisco. She smokes grass.
- Closing Narration (0:09:21)
- Narrator coming on strong: For every negative decision there is a positive alternative.
People
Irving Jacoby, writer and director