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According to the Starkeyz Productions official site, this film "has been used as a classroom tool for students doing a literature research on 1960's social history through an American Novel, the students were able to compare the times and what teenagers did at that time. It has also been used as an educational tool to relate the fact that public schools were successful and Arts went not always sidelined in the past."
The number of schools that closed in Marion, South Australia between 1987 and 2009 was nine.
The seventeen participants were interviewed over two afternoons during May 2011 by filmmaker Ashley Starkey who does not appear.
An early title card in the film reads: "The following interviews were filmed over two afternoons of the exhibition. Thousands of people were a part of the closed schools of Marion, and these interviews only scratch the surface of the collective memories of these people".
The schools in Marion, South Australia which were closed between 1987 and 2009 and the year they were closed are [in alphabetical order]: Dover High School (1989); Dover Gardens Primary School (2009); Glengowrie High School (1996); Marion High School (1990); Morphettville Park Primary School (1987); Oaklands Park Primary School (1987); Sturt Primary School (1996); Tonsley Park Primary School (1994); and Vermont High School (1988).
Filmmaker Ashley Starkey, this production's director, is actually an old scholar of one of the closed schools of Marion, which was Glengowrie High School.