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Jenny is a Good Thing

Jenny is a Good Thing

6,3 /10 (6 Votes)
1969 EN 18 min

Overview

Jenny is a Good Thing is a 1969 American short documentary film about children and poverty, directed by Joan Horvath. Produced by Project Head Start, it shows the importance of good nutrition for underprivileged nursery school children. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

Release date

01/01/1969

Votes

6

Popularity

0.8

Genres

Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

18 min

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

2024-05-03

⭐ 6

We had quite a few of these social awareness documentaries in the UK in the 1960s that extolled the virtues of education, collaboration and fun whilst bringing home a more serious point to the adults watching about ensuring children eat properly. On that note, it also looks at the more cerebral forms of "nutrition" too. Not just teaching you to fry an egg or prepare a salad, but of the values to people of playing with each other, with interacting and enjoying that sense of society. This is built around an American educational programme called "Head Start" and attempts to show us just a little …

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