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Released
1936 · FILM

Second Childhood

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Written by
Runtime
20 min
FamilyComedy

Synopsis

A lonely, wealthy hypochondriac celebrates her 65th birthday in the same way she spends the other 364 days of the year—by complaining, berating her servants, taking her pills, and grumbling about everything, including the sunshine. A toy airplane flies through an open window and breaks a vase, and when its owner, Spanky, enters to retrieve it, he is told he must pay seventy-five cents for the damage. Spanky has never seen six bits, let alone have that much in his pants, so he offers his and his friend's help in cleaning up the yard in exchange. Before the children are through, they've given the old lady a new outlook on life.

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The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 13

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Louis McmanusShot by Francis Corby

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