(The Unemployment Test)

Content: The Unemployment Test is presented as a quiz to judge the audience’s knowledge about the welfare system, albeit one backed by a funky disco synth soundtrack. The viewers of the film take the test alongside people in a classroom who are evenly split between those who have benefited from unemployment insurance and others who have not. Short dramatized scenes with non-professional actors play out in two phases. Each skit ends with a question by the narrator. The audience’s an- swers are scored at the end of each phase.

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Genres:

Documentary

Runtime:

14 minutes

Year:

1978

Directors:

Jackie Shearer

Production companies:

Blackside

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