The new E. C. Brown Trust film Early Marriage is designed primarily as a teaching aid for use in high school classrooms; but the content and basic ideas are challenging and pertinent to other situations and the film will certainly be widely used in many non-school settings - especially those involving adults: parents school administrators teachers counselors and ministers. All Brown Trust films are dedicated to the proposition that good discussion is essential to learning and to attitude formation. Thus Early Marriage is not a sermon on the evils and dire consequences of marriage before a specified post-twenty-age minimum. Instead it advances some ideas about marriage at any age-including marriage in high school-which sow just enough seeds of controversy to evoke discussion wherein adults may discover their own opinions. And for students in high school or college the film stimulates questions as well as classroom discussion. Both of these assertions have already been supported by preliminary testing of the film. All of this given added significance by the publication of Lee Burchinals article Young Marriage in this issue of the family life coordinator. Part of the significance lies in the fact that although Dr. Burchinal has never seen the script of the new film and has never been informed of its content or the philosophy upon which it is based he reflects this philosophy and the ideas presented in the film with great accuracy. (excerpt)