Summary

Back to Life

Source Archive Films by Getty Images
Title: Back to Life
File Number: PA-0399 Beta SP
Color: B W
Type: Educational Industrial
Year: 01/01/1954
Subjects: Safety
Description: Back to Life Writter and Director: Al Kane Bud Lambert: Marvin Stephens Mrs Lambert: Lee Stephens Superintendent: Arthur P Noves, MD Psychiatirst: Kenneth A Kool, MD Social Worker: Frances Happerson, MSS Family Doctor: Hilding Bengs, MD Rehabilitation Man: Maurice J Reisman Personnel Man: Alfred P Hulme Occupational Therapist: Lenora R Graeff, OTR Big Mike: Charles Vogel Friend: Jack Donnegan Old Timer: William Morgan Bureau of Mental Health Staff, Department of Welfare, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Richard H Williams, PhD Professional Services Branch National Institute of Mental Health Photography: Henry V Jovorsky Assistant Photographer: Gene Friedman Sound: Willard Goodman Lighting: Vernon Chester-Roy Zeper Film Editor: James Gaffney Music: Corelli-Jacobs Acknowledgments EXT shots of factory and parking lot Man attacks social workers with chair Man accosts wife on driveway with two children watching Back to Life: Worker holds bloody nose he hits safety man Family walks towards house they see Dad looking anxiously though the window He's crazed He runs out of house and accuses wife of cheating He shakes her and screams she and children run away Man smashes window with chair Lurker: In the shop, man in shades stares at two men in confrontation PARANOIA: Bud looks around shop nervously We hear his paranoid inner voice (which reverberates) He says, They're watchingI know they're watchingbut wherewho could it bethat's himthe safety manthe one guy doing wrongdoing all of it He's the one Distorted images of the safety man (looks like he's behind glass) He throws punches at the safety man Other workers crowd around to help hold him back
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