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Our Day
Our Day is a silent documentary short directed by Wallace Kelly in 1938, about a day in the life of the Kelly family in Lebanon, Kentucky. It starred his mother, wife, brother, pet dog, and Wallace himself. The film countered the contemporary stereotypes of impoverished Southerners eking out a living during the Depression, by documenting a modern home inhabited by adults with sophisticated interests.
"Our Day" was selected for the National Film Registry by the Librarian of Congress in 2007 as being "culturally
has reduced the film to about 15 minutes.
- Extant lobby posters indicate that the original opening title card probably read: '"Our Gang" Comedies - Hal Roach presents His Rascals in "One Terrible Day".' The title of some of the early "Our Gang" films read '"Our Gang" Comedy' or '"Our Gang" Series.'
- The film was released into TV syndication as "Mischief Makers" episode no. 1043, "The Outing," copyrighted Sep. 1