The narrator of this Coronet short speaks his lines exhorting his audience to be polite and clean like he's talking to dull toddlers and isn't sure of his intellectual or moral superiority. Seriously, what is it about this mid-century instructional films made by Coronet and others for the classroom that causes them to act as if their audience was composed of idiots likely to go haywire at a direct statement? After beginning with a short, dull puppet show, we follow a student whose motivation in life is not to behave in the manner of a short, dull puppet. Instead, he acts like a prig.
And everyone else at his table does too, leaving it spotless. This the narrator informs us, as if we are three-year-old morons, is much more fun.
No it isn't. Who doesn't enjoy a food fight?