Sarah Inman (Vera Stough) has no time for games or kicks. She also has little tolerance for those wild (by 50s standards) suburban kids in the house next to hers. Sarah has great disdain for these people. She doesn't understand how they get the same grades as her while they spend all their free time socializing. When Ron (Harper Barnes) invites her to his party (mainly because his mom told him to), Sarah is called out by another student for being a snob. What happens after that is left up to the viewer to decide. Basically it's a educational film about why it's bad to be a snob. These kind of short films are always fun to watch mainly for the campy moments. If you like these kinds of campy 50s educational films (like me) than this one will most likely meet your standards. Give it a watch.
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boblipton8 March 2015
The director of this educational short, Herk Hervey, is best known for his one feature, CARNIVAL OF TERROR. His day job however, consisted of directing industrial films like PORK: THE MEAL WITH THE SQUEAL and pieces like this one. When I was in school, someone from the Audio-Visual squad would bring in a projector and we would be treated to efforts like these, probably to make us wish we were doing something more interesting, like taking a pop quiz on President Garfield.
The point of the film is that we make assumptions of others' attitudes that are unwarranted. It's certainly competently done by the standards of the form and era, but the earnest manner in which everyone lectures everyone else and the emphatic, stagy way they read their lines offers a flatness to the entire affair that makes it boring.
I can't really blame anyone. These were produced on a strict budget for a small market and there wasn't time or money to work in any subtlety -- not that subtlety would be appreciated by the people who bought these films for the schools. If their students couldn't appreciate the fascinating history of James Garfield, they must need to have every point driven home with a steam hammer.
Still, it was a good training ground for Hervey in getting things done quick. He shot CARNIVAL OF TERROR during a vacation at an abandoned fairground.
The point of the film is that we make assumptions of others' attitudes that are unwarranted. It's certainly competently done by the standards of the form and era, but the earnest manner in which everyone lectures everyone else and the emphatic, stagy way they read their lines offers a flatness to the entire affair that makes it boring.
I can't really blame anyone. These were produced on a strict budget for a small market and there wasn't time or money to work in any subtlety -- not that subtlety would be appreciated by the people who bought these films for the schools. If their students couldn't appreciate the fascinating history of James Garfield, they must need to have every point driven home with a steam hammer.
Still, it was a good training ground for Hervey in getting things done quick. He shot CARNIVAL OF TERROR during a vacation at an abandoned fairground.
She's Certainly a Snob
Michael_Elliott26 September 2016
The Snob (1958)
** (out of 4)
Sarah is a snob who thinks she's the greatest thing that ever walked why everyone else is some sort of loser. Sarah's mom confronts her about going to a party on Friday night but she refuses because she doesn't want to hang out with that type. She's pretty much forced to go where people try to include her but she just can't get over her snob ways. Herk Harvey (CARNIVAL OF SOULS) directed this thirteen-minute short, which is one of your typical educational films that were made to teach kids you shouldn't be (in this case) a snob. This one here is pretty dry and there's only one over-the-top campy moment but it's certainly a good one as our lady is called a snob and then a large musical cue hits. These shorts are always fun in their own way as long as they lean towards the campy side but this one doesn't do that. It's pretty straight-forward so it hasn't found a cult status.
** (out of 4)
Sarah is a snob who thinks she's the greatest thing that ever walked why everyone else is some sort of loser. Sarah's mom confronts her about going to a party on Friday night but she refuses because she doesn't want to hang out with that type. She's pretty much forced to go where people try to include her but she just can't get over her snob ways. Herk Harvey (CARNIVAL OF SOULS) directed this thirteen-minute short, which is one of your typical educational films that were made to teach kids you shouldn't be (in this case) a snob. This one here is pretty dry and there's only one over-the-top campy moment but it's certainly a good one as our lady is called a snob and then a large musical cue hits. These shorts are always fun in their own way as long as they lean towards the campy side but this one doesn't do that. It's pretty straight-forward so it hasn't found a cult status.
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