# Help me identify this movie I saw in sixth grade

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**Created:** [November 10, 2022, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-movie-i-saw-in-sixth-grade/974715 "2022-11-10T22:40:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2022, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-movie-i-saw-in-sixth-grade/974715/1 "2022-11-10T22:40:24Z")

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It wasn’t an “educational” film, but I suspect it was intended to tie in with the unit on Great Britain we were working on at the time:

It was filmed in B&W, probably around 1960. A gang of school children (in London, I think) was building a hutch for their pet rabbit. The saw they were using (which I think belonged to one of their dads) broke on a nail, and we followed them around the city trying to scrape up enough money to buy a replacement. They succeeded in doing so, and of course the film ended with the new saw getting broke on the same nail.

I know this is on the Internet, since I found it on line 20 years ago, but can’t find it now. ☹

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**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2022, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-movie-i-saw-in-sixth-grade/974715/2 "2022-11-10T22:48:03Z")

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The Salvage Gang?

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**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2022, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-movie-i-saw-in-sixth-grade/974715/3 "2022-11-11T04:45:46Z")

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Yes, that’s it! Thank you.

I don’t know why the hell I couldn’t find it. I typed in all the key words repeatedly, and came up empty each time.

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**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2022, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-movie-i-saw-in-sixth-grade/974715/4 "2022-11-11T15:54:38Z")

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> [@terentii](#):
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> Yes, that’s it!

And with Jamie McCrimmon!