Angel And Big Joe by Bert Salzman / Oscar Winning Short Film

Angel And Big Joe by Bert Salzman Award Winning Film; For most of his life, Angel has been a migrant worker, helping his family as they move from place to place picking crops. When a phone won't work, Angel enlists "Big Joe's" aid to repair it and from then on a friendship develops. Joe and the boy team up to start a rose-growing business. A call from Angel's father comes, the family must leave. Angel can stay with Joe and the promise of a future, or he can go with his family and continue in the uncertain lifestyle of his parents. ANGEL is about realities that are always important to human beings--friendship, family, ambition, loyalty, dreams--this film will never grow old. While it may be of interest to scholars and historians, this short movie will surely be valued by "ordinary" people who simply love to watch great movies. ANGEL AND BIG JOE is excellent in every way a movie can stand out: story, characterizations, dialogue, acting, cinematography, locations, music, editing. AWARDS: Academy Award (Oscar); Best Live Action Short Film of 1975; American Library Association;Notable Chidrens Film Award; National Education Film Festival Award; Chicago Film Festival Award; Columbus Film Festival Award; Director: Bert Salzman; Producer: Bert Salzman.

Dear Friends,
The Bert Salzman collection of classic 16mm educational films have recently been saved from extinction and are now available for viewing on the Internet Archive. Link: http://www.archive.org/search.php?que...

The films originally made in the early 1970's as human values films for social study classes include the (Academy Award winner Angel And Big Joe and Geronimo Jones (which premiered at the famous Radio City Music Hall in New York City). In his films Bert Salzman tries to instill hope and love into the hearts of young people. His message always was: "Have hope, go deep into your self; You are more than you think you are!".

The Internet Academic Archive is now hosting all of the Bert Salzman Collection and links to the entire collection can be found below. If you enjoy these films please forward this letter to your friends especially educators. From the beginning It has always been Bert's dream, his goal- that his films find their way into every school in this very troubled world and perhaps change it for the better-even in a small way. Bert thanks you in advance for your help in achieving this goal.

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The early to mid-1970s were truly heady times for the educational film world. Fueled by the Johnson administration's "Great Society" philosophy, educational programs embraced themes of ethnic awareness and diversity, and school districts nationwide began demanding professional quality 16mm films that both encouraged and provoked classroom discussion. Learning Corporation of America, was a prime source for these types of films, and the maker of several of its most profound and dynamic films was Bert Salzman. Salzman was already a successful artist before embarking on a career as a filmmaker. In 1970, Linda Gottlieb of LCA asked him to choose three ethnic groups as focal points for his first LCA films. The films he did for LCA eventually ran to eight, including Oscar-winning Angel & Big Joe. Salzman infused each of these films which he wrote and directed with elements essential to great film of any genre: pathos, passion, and humor. Posted with permission from Bert Salzman.

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[dewstarpath]

RosaryFilms - Thank you for uploading this short film. Hadn't seen it in 35 years !

- I actually attended grade school with Nick Irizarry. He introduced

it to his schoolmates at Butler Elementary in New Jersey in 1975.

The title just came to me one day as "Big Joe and the Angel", and

I used that as the search terms. Such a great movie ! Thanks for

the memories. -dewstarpath

[rosaryfilms]

@dewstarpath - you are very welcome! and thank you for your comments!

[ramja20]

Thanks for posting this film that I hadn't seen since 7th Grade 1977. Man! The memories!!

[rosaryfilms]

@ramja20 - you are very welcome!

[TheMightyOdin]

Can't believe I found this. I saw this in the 4th grade over 25 years ago!. The only parts I remembered was that there was a basketball scene and that he called him "Big Joe from Mexico"

It all started coming back to me as I watched it. Thanks for posting.

[rosaryfilms]

@TheMightyOdin - you are very welcomed!

[walibanda]

Hi Bert, met you at Vik's today. My son and I really liked "Angel and Big Joe" and "The Bag Lady".

thanks!!

[aetheregg]

OMG! That's Paul Sorvino as "Big Joe"... so very cool!

[mublei1]

i lived in new york at the time this film was made the part of angel was played by one of the neighborhood kids which i knew back then great to see it again

[NIKONGUY1960]

@lewiske I remember that show, very well.

[lewiske]

Caught this on CBS with Kukla, Fran, and Ollie. What memories.