The Fun of Making Friends is a elegantly simple video made for children to watch if they're having trouble meeting new people to play with. At first, Joey plays alone in his home, watching all the while at kids outside having a good time with each other. He asks his mother for help and, through four orderly steps, she tells him how easy it is to gain all the friends a youngster like Joey could ever want! After trying the rules out and succeeding, he finds it is fun to have companions to spend time with. An all-too rigid cultural dynamic of the 1950s is obvious through this vintage film, and it remains extremely interesting to see just how formal the social structures were then.
