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...typical mental-hygiene film has all the earnest artlessness of an Ed Wood psychodrama. And those sweet, distressed faces belong to volunteer teen actors in Glenview, Ill. (home of Coronet Films, which produced some 500 instructionals just in the '50s), and Lawrence, Kans. (Centron Films). That's one appeal of these pictures today: their mid-American isolation from mainstream movie glamour, even as they aped Hollywood's techniques of storytelling and propaganda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Camp in the Classroom | 2/7/2000 | See Source »

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