A Date with Your Family

1950 Drama 10 minutes Directed by Edward G. Simmel

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About A Date with Your Family

A ten-minute Simmel-Meservey short shows teenagers how to behave with their parents at dinner so the meal stays pleasant.

Cast & crew

More about A Date with Your Family

Edward G. Simmel directed. Arthur V. Jones wrote it. Miriam Bucher edited. Simmel-Meservey presented the film for youth audiences in 1950.

Themes

  • Getting ready for dinner
  • Speaking to parents
  • A pleasant table
  • dinner
  • family
  • teenagers
  • manners
  • classroom film

Background

A 1950 classroom film about how children were told to behave at the family table.

Making

Simmel-Meservey produced the reel as a manners lesson, with Jones's script and Bucher's cut.

Preservation

The short survives and is on Wikimedia Commons.

Notes

  • Wikipedia describes it as a social-engineering short about behavior at a family dinner.
  • A Wikimedia Commons file credits Edward C. Simmel. Wikidata and the English article use Edward G. Simmel.

Scenes

  • The family sits down to dinner, and the film treats the meal as a lesson in conduct.

Also available

  • Wikimedia Commons (A Date With Your Family (1950) by Edward C. Simmel.webm)