Thanksgiving Dining Etiquette for Young Children: "Dining Together" (ca. 1951)

Made with the best intentions and a straight face, this film presents a world that has gone by, and serves as a relic of 1950s upward climbing.
You'd think that people would already know good manners, but this film might have been intended for the lower strata of our 1950s society.
The music makes it different. It has a yearning quality about it. Technically bad but suited to the stifling environment of this family's dinner table that could extend to public life as well.
The underlying messages are these: This is how an AMERICAN family behaves. You will conform and then be happy. "Mother knows how to cook a turkey. Father knows how to carve it!"
All in all, a creepy look into 50s rigidity and blandness.
"There is happiness in the air!"
And creepiness is cooking in the oven.
Producer: Children's Productions