{"id":36639,"date":"2023-10-14T00:01:23","date_gmt":"2023-10-14T06:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/?p=36639"},"modified":"2023-10-13T10:25:40","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T16:25:40","slug":"the-oscar-winning-short-films-of-john-nesbitt-part-five-goodbye-miss-turlock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/the-oscar-winning-short-films-of-john-nesbitt-part-five-goodbye-miss-turlock\/","title":{"rendered":"The Oscar-Winning Short Films of John Nesbitt, Part Five: Goodbye, Miss Turlock"},"content":{"rendered":"

Previous Films:\u00a0<\/strong>That Mothers Might Live<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0Of Pups and Puzzles,<\/em><\/a> \u00a0Main Street on the March,<\/a><\/em> and Stairway to Light<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Goodbye, Miss Turlock<\/em> (1948)<\/p>\n

Ten years after his first Oscar-winning film, John Nesbitt produced, wrote, and narrated his last Oscar Winner.<\/p>\n

Goodbye, Miss Turlock\u00a0<\/em>is set against the backdrop of the social changes that America faced as the country marched towards the second half of the twentieth century. For decades, the one-room “little red schoolhouse” was a symbol of rural education in America. The expansion of highways and other changes in rural life made bussing children to larger schools make more sense. And so America’s rural one-room schools were slowly passing away. This short focuses on one of these schools, whose teacher was Miss Turlock.<\/p>\n

The film spends a few minutes with Miss Turlock, who is viewed by her young students as harsh and stern, except to a boy who the narrator described as “slow.” The film in its short-running length shows the reality of Miss Turlock, something many of her students didn’t figure out until adulthood. The movie’s closing is sweet and sentimental in a way that calls to mind longer films like Goodbye, Mr. Chips\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Cheers for Miss Bishop.<\/em><\/p>\n

Goodbye, Miss Turlock\u00a0<\/em>has all the hallmarks of the best Nesbitt short. Great and moving narration with a touch of humor, solid silent acting that uses body language and facial expressions to sell scenes, and some nice editing work.<\/p>\n

The film is the most sentimental of the five Oscar-Winners. But it’s important to be just as clear what it’s not. It’s not a film that’s resisting the end of the red schoolhouse or complaining about it. Rather, it’s honoring the schoolhouse and those who taught in them. The film is a salute to the passing of a way of life with no judgment on what came after.<\/p>\n

Appropriately, even as the little red schoolhouse was nearing its end, so was John Nesbitt’s passing parade. The last of Nesbitt’s seventy-two short films for MGM would be released in 1949 and in 1951, The Passing Parade\u00a0<\/em>would pass from radio.<\/p>\n

So much of Nesbitt’s radio work has been lost to the ages. However, that which survives, coupled with his short films, showcases his talent as a storyteller and his gift for speaking to the hearts of listeners and viewers. And in many cases, that gift can even bridge the chasm of time.<\/p>\n

Goodbye, Miss Turlock<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>is currently available on YouTube<\/p>\n

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Previous Films:\u00a0That Mothers Might Live,\u00a0Of Pups and Puzzles, \u00a0Main Street on the March, and Stairway to Light. Goodbye, Miss Turlock (1948) Ten years after his first Oscar-winning film, John Nesbitt produced, wrote, and narrated his last Oscar Winner. Goodbye, Miss Turlock\u00a0is set against the backdrop of the social changes that America faced as the country…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-golden-age-article"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pECdK-9wX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36639"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36664,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36639\/revisions\/36664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}