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* BilledAboveTheTitle: The entire choir, as the opening title card is actually "The Robert Mitchell Boy Choir in 'Forty Boys and a Song'."
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''Forty Boys and a Song'' is a 1941 short film (ten minutes) directed by Irving Allen.
It's about the Robert Mitchell Boy Choir, consisting entirely of boys aged 8 to 14. The choir, run by organist Robert Mitchell, appeared in Hollywood productions for [[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1247832/ over thirty years]]. According to this short film, the boys were recruited to go to a special school where they would go through regular classroom instruction until 1 pm, after which they'd do choir practice. The kids are also shown performing in a church on Sunday as well as camping, as they are all part of the same Boy Scouts troop.
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!!Tropes:
* {{Documentary}}: A documentary about the Robert Mitchell Boy Choir.
* InopportuneVoiceCracking: One boy croaks like a bullfrog as he's attempting to perform his scales. His time in the Robert Mitchell choir may be limited.
* TheMusical: The kids perform several songs in the course of this brief short, including "Home on the Range", "My Bonnie", and "Shortnin' Bread".
* {{Narrator}}: There's no scripted dialogue, only a narrator telling the story of the choir, and the choir singing songs.
* TheNounAndTheNoun: ''Forty Boys and a Song''
* OneGenderSchool: The boys all attend the same school where they take regular elementary and middle school instruction before doing music practice.
It's about the Robert Mitchell Boy Choir, consisting entirely of boys aged 8 to 14. The choir, run by organist Robert Mitchell, appeared in Hollywood productions for [[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1247832/ over thirty years]]. According to this short film, the boys were recruited to go to a special school where they would go through regular classroom instruction until 1 pm, after which they'd do choir practice. The kids are also shown performing in a church on Sunday as well as camping, as they are all part of the same Boy Scouts troop.
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!!Tropes:
* {{Documentary}}: A documentary about the Robert Mitchell Boy Choir.
* InopportuneVoiceCracking: One boy croaks like a bullfrog as he's attempting to perform his scales. His time in the Robert Mitchell choir may be limited.
* TheMusical: The kids perform several songs in the course of this brief short, including "Home on the Range", "My Bonnie", and "Shortnin' Bread".
* {{Narrator}}: There's no scripted dialogue, only a narrator telling the story of the choir, and the choir singing songs.
* TheNounAndTheNoun: ''Forty Boys and a Song''
* OneGenderSchool: The boys all attend the same school where they take regular elementary and middle school instruction before doing music practice.
