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3 r's Plus - Elementary School Education K-6 Grade California 1956
- High Definition Film Transfer: (24-hr. turnaround)
- HD ProRes -- $549.00
1920 x 1080 23.98p ProRes 422HQ Quicktime
keywords: Education, School, Classroom, Students, Learning, Alphabet, Math, Nativity Play, Children's Choir
Synopsis: California integrated school education in the 1950's with classic school scenes such as children arriving at school, teacher instructing students, children learning the alphabet, flashcards used for math class, children enacting Nativity Scene, girls and boys choir and more...(read more)
- Date: 1956
- Duration: 00:26:30
- Sound: Yes
- Color: Color
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: United States





































































3 r's Plus - Elementary School Education K-6 Grade California 1956
Great 1950s footage. The Three Rs Plus reading , writing, and arithmetic are featured in this 1956 education color film. Various classroom scenes of students and teachers as the children are taught to read and write in a 1950s integrated school system.
Shot List:
00:00:41;20
Boys and girls arriving at school and parking their bicycles before entering school, girls first followed by boys. Teacher looks at turtles brought to school in a box by one of the students. CU of turtles
00:02:52;03
Postman delivering mail to Beverly Hills Elementary School. Image of bank teller counting money. A motorcycle police officer stopping two boys from crossing a street, Richfield service station in background
00:03:33;17
Classroom of boys and girls learning to form letters of the alphabet. A young boy selecting a book from a set of Encyclopedia. Students and teacher at blackboard in a second grade classroom. Image of a world globe in a classroom
00:12:10;19
Flash cards are used in an arithmetic drill to memorize the multiplication tables. Various methods are used to teach children mathematics including fractions
00:17:13;23
Various scenes of teaching children Social Studies in the 1950s
00:19:38;19
Teaching children with physical handicaps and other children with special needs. A school Psychologist uses a form board to test the learning capacity of children
00:23:15;15
Nativity scenes played by elementary school children in the 1950s
00:24:36;03
A U.S. Air Force Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star jet fighter plane taking off
00:25:58;06
Boys and girls choir