"Gossip" is a rare short from 1950's directed by Homer O'Donnell and Leonard Clairmont Talk about a blast from the past. These shorts from 50's are nowhere to be found nowadays but now with the internet you can track them any of them down. This short is like with the other Propaganda films of its time both an educational documentary and a small movie.
The short begins with a lecture on what is gossip, how it's spread and it's consequences. They use regular actors to portray a scenario. The short focuses on a sweet girl named Jean and her bf named Jack. Jean Gage is the new girl in school. Jack is sort of the playboy that's known for getting girls. When Jean slaps him and rejects his advances, Jack, being the ego, masculine jerk he is, starts spreading rumors about what happened with Jean e.g. he slept with her and yada, yada, yada.
The gossip of course hurts Jean, and she knows who is causing it. The girls in school especially a club she wants to join wants nothing to do with her. Jean cries her eyes out and tells her parents what happened. The parents take their complaint to the principal who in effect straightens out Jack Monroe. The jerk comes clean publicly to the school about what he did. .
Like I said this short is horrendously outdated but the whole theme still has merit if only people actually followed the lessons shorts like this showed then a lot of nonsense could be solved. A more updated version of this short today, no doubt would be more graphic and violent and would have a negative ending but still this one is still entertaining.
The short begins with a lecture on what is gossip, how it's spread and it's consequences. They use regular actors to portray a scenario. The short focuses on a sweet girl named Jean and her bf named Jack. Jean Gage is the new girl in school. Jack is sort of the playboy that's known for getting girls. When Jean slaps him and rejects his advances, Jack, being the ego, masculine jerk he is, starts spreading rumors about what happened with Jean e.g. he slept with her and yada, yada, yada.
The gossip of course hurts Jean, and she knows who is causing it. The girls in school especially a club she wants to join wants nothing to do with her. Jean cries her eyes out and tells her parents what happened. The parents take their complaint to the principal who in effect straightens out Jack Monroe. The jerk comes clean publicly to the school about what he did. .
Like I said this short is horrendously outdated but the whole theme still has merit if only people actually followed the lessons shorts like this showed then a lot of nonsense could be solved. A more updated version of this short today, no doubt would be more graphic and violent and would have a negative ending but still this one is still entertaining.