Better Use for Leisure Time (1950)

[@poetcomic1]

Better use for leisure time? Watching 'Better Use for Leisure Time'.

[@Michelle77Va]

Lmfao

[@barbie6153]

There is something comforting by watching these old clips when I'm bored.

[@aprilmoore2917]

I find it dated, yes - but how calm and collected these people (even the teens) were, compared to our crazy modern world...I realize not ALL families were this together - but I'm reasonably certain this was the desired norm, more so than today...

[@Focusyn]

If Ken is so bored there's a war in Korea he can go fight in :D

[@Focusyn]

Alex _ It says right in the title it was 1950. And the Roman numerals on the title card say MCML, 1950 ;)

[@greglawrence1314]

Instructional films were much more sophisticated in the Eisenhower era.

[@krazyoldkatlady192]

Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus 😆😆😆

[@idaho6533]

If he doesn't want to do that, he can fight in nam.

[@Billinois78]

5:39 "I've GOT it! I'LL join the Womans Club!" *sound of narrator walking out, slamming door

[@babymoondancer]

As campy and silly as it seems now, you can't really deny that "Don't sit on your butt" is a reasonable message.

[@55mmartin]

This is something I've been trying to teach my kids all their lives. Instead of sitting in front of the computer or t.v. watching reruns of television shows or videos of other people doing things, do something themselves. I'm a therapist/social worker and I am surprised at how many of my patients have no hobbies, just watch t.v. No wonder they are depressed!

[@poetcomic1]

that reminds me of an old New Yorker cartoon. A woman is putting flowers on her husband's grave and the epitaph reads "He Watchedc Sports on Television"..

[@pageturner7947]

Mom seems to be having trouble closing the lid on her new washer

[@edenpalmermusic]

I use my leisure time to watch old 50's educational films

[@magicslave3066]

Don't you just they had videos from all the eras

[@YouT00ber]

They’re swell!

[@calvinmaynardtmt]

Why yes, I do sit around thinking about how much leisure time I have!

[@joyitadarling5815]

Calvin Maynard I do it everyday! sometimes for hours! awesome way to spend time, 11/10

[@PoseurGoth]

This video does make a pretty good point. It is silly to gripe about having no free time now. We only work a third of the day (a forth in parts of Europe), transportation is even less of a problem now than it was when this video was made. Our chores take little time, and many of them don't even require you to give them your full attention (ie laundry andcooking). Yard work is getting easier every day. There is simply no reason not to have time for fun activities.

[@petermainwald6413]

Ken now has LOTS of leisure time in the old folks home....

[@chieftp]

if you spend your "leisure time" doing work, then it isn't leisure time.

[@keithwilson6060]

chieftp Exactly. I thought I was the only one to ask this question.

[@BenandJessQT]

then you didn't get the point of the video. Doing handy things to better yourself is not work. Work is toiling and putting effort into something you wouldn't do unless your life depended on it (for money, food, family, etc)

[@joyitadarling5815]

Clarabelle Shepherd that's a really unhealthy way to look at work imo

[@misstweetypie1]

It depends on if you actually enjoy doing the "work" or not. Leisure time as we understand it is extremely unhealthy (as in, not doing anything/sitting around watching TV or the computer, etc.) You can get a lot of enjoyment out of "work", if it's something you are interested in. Being "leisurely" is different than being "lazy"

[@maryvasquez7246]

What I really like about this films.is that it teaches young people of how to used better of their time.in a good productive ways.

[@ezride445]

Don't tell me how to live my life

[@krazyoldkatlady192]

Actually, it seems that Ken's leisure time is spent conversing with the voice in his head😆

[@chelebelle2223]

I know, right? Looks like he may have to spend part of his leisure time making an appointment at the doc's to get that checked out. lol

[@Otterpoptheotter]

Narrator: “Time when you don’t have to work” Guy in the video: *lays down and does nothing* Me: same

[@fromthesidelines]

At the time this was produced, very few people (including those at Coronet Films) realized what impact television would soon have on everyone's "leisure time"...keep in mind this was filmed at the tail end of an era when radio was still the #1 entertainment medium in virtually every home.

[@SaraJohnstone91]

Then he found the internet

[@cliffdweller990]

And got cheated by the Nigerian prince.

[@franmcd9868]

This is quite motivating actually. I waste so much of my free time.

[@papakilatube]

So wait his Dad is like 140 years old?

[@Bardoftoday]

this is amazingly informational and MUCH needed for American culture

[@Ronbo710]

At Ken's age my leisure time always drifted to the magazines under my mattress.

[@idaho6533]

Speaking of which...

[@grnhair2001]

how odd that they credit technology with the 40 hour work week. Unions fought hard for that, against child labor, for safe working conditions. Also, in 1750, his father would have been unlikely to be in an office. Would have been ploughing, raking up grain, threshing with a flail, like 90% of people, and Ken would have done it alongside him--or married, at that age..

[@TheThreatenedSwan]

It's obviously technology that gave us the 40 hour work week. Unions do nothing productive which is not shocking since they are composed of bad people.

[@violet-wq7wt]

"Let's go back 100 years" "hEy! tHaT's mY dAd!" god how old is your dad😂

[@ConceptuallyYour]

Each song on this channel is like a gem polished by time, the more you listen, the more beautiful and valuable it becomes. 💎

[@pieface187]

Dont you hate it when your high in your room and it starts talking to you

[@irunamuk]

pieface187 😂😂😂

[@lisettelachat1870]

pieface187 loser

[@darklord6900]

@@lisettelachat1870 we know you are

[@danhesko]

I remember watching these in school in the late 50s and 60s. What a hoot

[@ronruggieri9817]

I must have seen at least a few of these educational films way back in my elementary schools days. There is much good sense in them and they do rise above McCarthy Era propaganda. Take the above film , for example : what to do with your time is a question that your inner voice will be asking all your life. Reading and walking I have enjoyed all my life.Whatever God there is will talk to you in a walk in the woods. Time spent in the public library is never wasted. For the last 20 years the Internet has helped people keep alive any early interests. These old films stimulate Proustian memories - like old popular songs and the lyrics too. And today just about everybody has a digital camera, is an amateur photographer. Also I can't find fault with all these " educational " films that just try to influence a kid to be a good, kind, useful citizen. Would they work in public schools today ? Too much domestic chaos ? How many American families even eat together ?

[@jorgealvarado7946]

I enjoy watching them as well. it's like having a mom or dad teaching you how to use common sense lol I think these videos would be great in school, maybe for 10 minutes at a time.

[@common-rock]

I think the emphasis on order and efficiency in these films would be beneficial to impart to school kids now. I think a major hurdle right now is that for entertainment, kids are watching KZbinrs and TikTok style videos where there is usually one person performing for the camera, but there is no real emphasis on realistic interaction with other people and it is a culture which benefits the narcissist. It'd be great to have more emphasis on relationship building and community in schools.

[@TheThreatenedSwan]

What's incredible is people put out McCarthy level stuff constantly, but they're forgiven or given praise because they're on the "right" side. In the wake of Oppenheimer reigniting arguments about communist infiltration, McCarthy was right. There was extensive infiltration and many private citizens that would later influence the government, like Oppenheimer were communists or communist sympathizers

[@collinsje5]

Don't worry, Ken. You will soon be drafted to help fight the Korean War and will have no leisure time at all!

[@karlamaecanine5614]

I think the mother was played by the actress who played Clara on the Andy Griffith show

[@Aslanreturn]

karlamae canine Yep, Clara Edwards, the pickle winner at the fair.

[@robertdiotalevi2882]

She, Hope Summers, was also a regular on The Rifleman www.riflemanconnors.com/hope_summers.htm

[@catherinebreitfeller669]

Yes she was “Clara” 😊😊

[@BKirkpatrick]

"Dave has a hobby of identifying birds" Okayyyyy Dave.

[@mastersnet18]

actually 100 years ago from 1950 was 1850 so his father might have been a factory owner or something. But you are correct because the industrial revolution actually increased the length of the working day.

[@Perktube1]

I spent my leisure time watching this.

[@gentillydanny]

Obviously the cameraman and narrator use their leisure time screwing with people's heads.

[@JohnSmith-kv3eo]

Lord Farquaad For real?

[@ArionaMew]

I'm sorry, but leisure time isn't for finding more work to do. It's for just relaxing, vegging out, and/or reconnecting with nature

[@matthewjones39]

I think this is about not doing anything for literally hours

[@maryvasquez7246]

I love this videos I wish I would of know of them when I was younger, but still even if I am older now I still happy that I know of this videos.

[@Tony-hx2fj]

so whats wrong doing nothing in your leisure time if thats what you like to do. I just retired after working 48 years mostly 1 1/2 or 2 full time jobs, yes 60 plus hours a week. and now all I want to do is putter around the house and look at youtube. is that bad?

[@quetomann9366]

If its what you like, then no.

[@Telcomvic]

I retired after 40 yrs of working and that's what I do plus we go boating in the summer. Works for me.

[@altfactor]

For a fun filled and entertaining evening, rent a 16 millimeter sound movie projector and a selection of Coronet Instructional Films! 😆

[@maya-zj2sw]

I have no idea why I keep watching these old documentary things

[@shananagans5]

Good advice. I noticed how most of the things suggested here involves interaction with other people. I am a counselor and general social skills have taken a nose dive in young people today. The really scarry thing is they don't even realize it. I don't have a prob with video games but lots of kids play way to much. They need to get out and do something with their friends face to face. Life is much better when you have good healthy friendships.

[@MikeH1986MikeH]

"We've gained a lot of leisure time, in the last century or so" what a weird statement

[@the-reclining-roleplayer]

I appreciate the narrator talking about Ken like he is not only not there but deliberately ignores Ken's attempts to defend himself.

[@depression2electricboogalo70]

"Dave has a hobby of identifying birds" Let me tell you about Homestuck...

[@Pluviophile218]

Dave is learning about nocturnal emissions from the football coach. (See other video)

[@Michelle77Va]

Homestuck?

[@depression2electricboogalo70]

@@Michelle77Va It's a webcomic. It's pretty good, but it will ruin your life.

[@frangoss123]

well.. people may say "internet" like "internet" is something lazy, bad, dumb, bad. well. thanks to the internet im smarter, faster, and found love, new hobbies, new friends, build a small business, and +99999 other things

[@wahine7556]

Francisco Figueredo Gossen 99999 unread emails

[@StoneColdScoutRECON]

What they didn't tell you was that Ken became a war correspondent because of his hobby and got shot in the face in Vietnam.

[@Aslanreturn]

StoneColdScoutRECON lolol That's awful!

[@jb6712]

Assinine.

[@oldblackstock2499]

Really some kind of hobby or exercise is a good use of time and makes life more pleasant. Everyone's work is different. I can't just choose to work longer. When my office closes I have to go home whether I want to or not! Lol. But I have had jobs where I could choose to wo end longer. Sometimes I set a timer to remind me to get clothes out of dryer etc. Recently, I repaired two lights, changed door knobs etc.

[@thestudentat101]

👍This was great! A great demonstration of inner dialogue.

[@TommyHelgevold]

Good advice - any time, any century!

[@manaral-tabtabaei2960]

I like how this video was uploaded 11 years ago ... 😲 never saw that in youtube ..

[@nancyhicksgribble9799]

Why do I love these videos?

[@Com005]

If there's time to lean there's time to clean.

[@saintmichael1779]

That's what my Mom said.

[@Com005]

@@saintmichael1779I know, that's where I heard it.

[@saintmichael1779]

@@Com005 ☺

[@earlsinclair8274]

In the 1950's there was no internet, therefore there was no easy access to porn and video games, so it's no wonder people got things done.

[@lionhead123]

well there were dirty magazines

[@catherinebreitfeller669]

And if you got caught with one your ass was torn up !!

[@anthonyalvarez7958]

These videos are pretty helpful 👍

[@jilhal24]

@judyblythe absolutely true. Just because something is old doesn't always mean it is obsolete.

[@AskALibbieist]

Amazing how close this film comes to acknowledging how women’s labor is undervalued in society but never quite makes the connection…

[@JamileMendes-ek9xp]

I am a woman and I feel very valued 😊

[@shananagans5]

LOL No doubt. I just love these old films on how to do basic stuff. As corney as it seems lots of it holds true even today. As obvious as lots of these things seem, look at todays society and friend/family relationships. Overall those seem to be more superficial than they were. Sad to say but these films served a purpose.

[@pantiara2]

the internet cured leisure time.

[@lovelyxlumps]

Ken is my favorite out of all the characters in these videos.

[@MSTJedi]

Definitely perfect for MST3K. Ah, the days before the mind-numbing effects of television.

[@Hello-zf5lq]

better than paying $120 to a therapist for a session, and better more useful advice too.

[@auaiao9]

That's Clara Edwards from Andy Griffith.

[@blackwidow8000]

All my friends are spending their leisure time creating an acrobat show.

[@mastersnet18]

nowadays we don't have enough leisure time. We're so busy doing things we don't even get enough sleep.

[@GummedUpTheWorks]

Mom will have enough spare time in the future to play Clara on The Andy Griffith Show.

[@YouAreSoRight]

@BrutusAlbion Dear Brutus., Thanks for your response, and congratulation on your skill of kinitting and sewing. You are quite right about love sewn/knitted into a garment. Cheers. from, del-boy.

[@YouLikeToast]

Little did they know it would be discovered decades in the future that just sitting there staring at the ceiling is healthy for the brain and mental health

[@Michelle77Va]

He could get a part time job to earn spending money and gain job skills.

[@viajerosamigos1842]

College seems to me to be the best time to gain social skills...despite it being so late. I spend all my time with my friends while at college.

[@robertdiotalevi2882]

04:18 "Bee Taylor, your phone doesn't work! Bee? Where the devil are you?" Or, of you prefer, "Ice cream is ready y'all!"

[@SubconsciousGatherer]

"Don't forget, Ken. Your dad's liquor cabinet is full and will go largely unnoticed should you decide to take a nip now and again. Yes, drinking is also a great way to spend your leisure time. If you drink enough, you're sure to forget what you did while drinking, so tomorrow you can start all over like it's your first time."

[@melissalopez5380]

Hahahaha

[@freyasangria]

did they have instuctions on how to use the toilet properly?

[@neverjethot]

At 5:44 I thought Ken was calling me out on my internet bullshit

[@mrstuffey]

I WISH U HAD MORE LEISURE TIME

[@gailwilson990]

Well this might be called leisure time looking at this now but, here I sit thinking about the time thing, oh I need to do this or that on the "list". So much to do no wonder "I feel the stress most of time"

[@mastersnet18]

Teens are even worse nowadays which is ironic considering that they hav alot more entertainment with their iphones, ipods, ipads, laptops, video games, dvrs, hundreds of tv channels etc yet they always complain how bored they are! I dont get it

[@sharid76]

mastersnet18 - "There is absolutely no good reason for anyone to be bored these days. With such an incredible addition of technology meant specifically to entertain people, there's no excuse for being bored." That's one way to look at it. The other way is what I call "Analysis Paralysis." There are TOO many things to choose from. So many that there's not nearly enough on which to base a specific choice of one over the other. I love to read and always have - I started reading on my own when I was 4, and picking up packages of food off the breakfast and lunch table, and sounding out words on the labels! My mother was a teacher, and both her parents likewise, so they must have started teaching me the alphabet early, and I just started stringing letters together to make words. Milk cartons, cereal boxes were the most fun, and even mayonnaise or pickle jars, all fair game! But choosing something, anything, even without technology of any kind, is always difficult when surrounded by books! I read most times like a starving person eats his first meal in weeks and months. And in school, well above my "grade level" which prompted the school librarian, when I was in 4th grade, to write a note home to my parents, requesting *them* to try and convince me why I should stay out of the 6th and 7th grade "sections" into which she had so thoroughly and painstakingly divided the library before I got there the year before! My mother wrote her a one-word answer at the bottom of the page, signed it, along with our phone number, should she wish to discuss the matter in more detail! I returned the sealed new envelope to her the next morning before classes started again, and waited. She opened the envelope, slowly withdrew the note she had written, with a rather smug, knowing look on her face. I waited. She opened it, scanned it, got to the bottom, saw my mother's one-word answer, along with her signature and phone number, and both eyebrows shot straight up, skyward, as if she'd been stuck in the bazzoo with a sharp object, dropped the note on her desk, and turned to hurry me to my classroom. I stood up on tiptoe, and read the bottom of the note quickly, and smiled. Walking back to class, I felt vindicated by my mother's original and to-the-point reply - which took the form of one three letter word ...... "Why?" That's what gave me the freedom from then on to walk from section to section with impunity, inspecting thoroughly the volumes which interested me, and checking out one of the many at a time I decided would make good reading. (As long as they didn't interfere with the availability of any that could be important to the upper level classes for assignments and projects at that time, that is.) I also love listening to 40's Big Band, and Swing, Jazz, and even and especially 60's and 70's rock and roll, as well as watching endless selections of older movies, too. And of course, now there are the nearly endless resources of the Internet as well! I have SO MANY choices I could possibly make, that it takes forever to decide exactly what it is I want to spend my free time on at any given moment! Hence, "Analysis Paralysis"!

[@TraditionalChevy]

I wish I had time to clean out the stables and build some steps for the back porch.

[@bilgeratjim]

Anyone who is watching this is not using their leisure time wisely. Moping around on youtube is not productive.

[@mikepeterson764]

Leisure time? I don't even know what that is, I know I'd like some.

[@plutoplatters]

+Mike Peterson that's because we've packed in a million things every minute.simple.

[@mikepeterson764]

plutoplatters Actually its because if I stop, the world stops and fires start and I get to start by putting those out.

[@Michelle77Va]

You have some if you watched this. Lol

[@alphonsocarioti512]

Hey. That's Hope Summers (Clara Edwards, Andy Griffith Show ) as the mother!

[@samclairs2442]

It's that same guy from the table manners video 😏

[@williamfunggoldenoldiesfan6758]

I got this on recommended right now!

[@whenhen]

LSD was first synthesized in 1938, the first trip was in 1943, and in 1948 Sandoz Laboratories marketed the drug.

[@CaptchaNeon]

How the hell old is Kens father that he goes back a total of 250 years???? Damn 😂

[@veesancez]

Wow this has opened my eyes0.0 I'm finding a new job so I can have more leisure time lol

[@TheDancingCookie]

I suspect it's not 'birds' that Dave has on his mind as he cruises the local woods...

[@imegatrone]

I Really Like The Video instructional film detailing how teenagers should spend their free time. It's quite humorous, in that campy, 'this should be on MST3K' sort of way From Your

[@ElderPinkerton]

His mother was played by the same actress as Clara, Aunt Bea's friend on Andy Griffith! Isn't she?

[@swizzlebeef]

We took a stab at the MST3K part. Unfortunately video responses are gone and I can't leave a link in this comment (thanks, Google.) If you click on our username it should hopefully be easy to find. or you can paste watch?v=yXtSRtO3FwI into the URL up there. Enjoy!

[@shananagans5]

vktrsx: A standard week is only 40 hrs now. What is the problem. We are working less and have more.

[@MysticalChicken]

I don't even remember what life was like before the internet...

[@DesertPepper]

I wait for supper. :)

[@autumnleaf29]

free time who has that anymore

[@keithwilson6060]

0:55 - Ken is in a gang?

[@billsmith6884]

Kinetsie Varvenfloot You have my sympathy. We should find another party to go to; I know how that always cheers you up. Have you seen 'A date with your family'? There is a brother in that who could probably use a visit from you and I have been thinking that the daughter needs a reality check from me. They are having dinner, so there will be food there as well. What do you say? Are you up to destroying another happy yet morally repressed household with me?

[@SpeedyTase]

Ken spent his time talking to a disembodied voice.

[@elyseny]

Ken would have something to in 60 years. He'll spend it texting, tweeting and blogging every waking hour.

[@Ishtars_Star]

i would be in the pool any time i could if i had one!!!!! i LOVE swimming!

[@TheIdahoAsylum]

5 people don't have enough leisure time, losing allot by watching this.

[@stephenlarson2013]

"hah.....i get it.....ya know I took some pictures once"

[@thejfblog]

WTF?!?! This video actually taught me something!

[@superstephanie42]

This is great

[@50zcarsman]

We're gonna help you out, Ken.Fast-forward about 50 years. We'll sign you up for football, baseball, track, gymnastics, soccer, Chess Team, Future Republicans, and so many other "activities" that you'll be beggin' for MORE leisure time!