Скачать или смотреть 16mm Film - Sir! Sir! - Kanada 1968

16mm Film - Sir! Sir! - Kanada 1968

Directed by: Michael Rubbo

Cinematography by: Tony Ianzelo and David De Volpi

Starring: Members of Mrs. Ryans Drama Class, Teachers of Duke of York School Toronto

Here is what happened in a Toronto classroom when teachers occupied the children's desks and children became the teachers. The film grew out of another, Mrs. Ryan's Drama Class, where young children found their way into creative drama. There is food for thought in this impromptu reversal of roles.

Although dated a year earlier, Sir! Sir! (1968) grew out of the production of Mrs. Ryan’s Drama Class. It is a twenty-minute film recording an improvisation in which two students who had appeared in Mrs. Ryan’s Drama Class and a dozen of their teachers trade places for a class session. The young “teachers” are dressed in suits, the adult “students” more casually. In the film’s only narrated passage, Rubbo explains that there were no rehearsals, just a statement of the premise. Like Mrs. Ryan’s Drama Class, Sir! Sir! is filmed in black and white using direct-cinema style. We see the microphone often, members of the crew occasionally, Rubbo himself once or twice. It’s an engaging film. Anyone who was educated in a North American public school will recognize the behavior of both parties. The young teachers try very hard to act like the teachers they have known, attempting to maintain order and get through a lesson plan. The adult students seem to be having a great time acting out the disruptive behaviors and minor mischief-making they have had to contend with over the years. Of the two groups, the young teachers have the worse time in their roles, perhaps because they are taking the exercise more seriously than the adults. After “class” and a brief scene in which a student is detained after school for bad behavior, Rubbo debriefs the young boy who played the main teacher. Rubbo asks him if, after this experience, he would like to become a teacher. With a class like that, the exhausted, much-relieved boy says, “Not for a million dollars.” He doesn’t seem to be just role playing when he says that.