“ DATE ETIQUETTE ” 1952 SOCIAL GUIDANCE / EDUCATIONAL FILM FOR TEENAGERS XD49914

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"Date Etiquette" is a Coronet Instructional film aimed at teenagers, about proper behavior on a date with the opposite sex. The plot follows four well-behaved and well-groomed high school students. The boys ask the girls on dates to various activities and they demonstrate good manners and what is expected from both a boy and a girl's perspective. This movie is a good example of what were referred to as "social guidance" films in the mid-century. These 16mm films were shown in schools in an attempt to encourage family values and to define gender roles. Evelyn M. Duvall collaborated, she was the head of the National Council on Family Relations.
A teenage boy stands awkwardly in front of lockers. He asks a girl named Alice if she would like to go to the school play with him (00:41). She agrees to the date. They arrange the details. Alice descends her staircase (1:33). Her parents read in the living room, she shows her mother how well-groomed and sharp she looks. The boy rings her doorbell, he is wearing a suit and bowtie (2:15). She introduces him to her parents. He paces nervously while she gets her coat. He engages the parents in conversation about the play, making a good impression. He puts the coat over her shoulders. He moves to walk on the curb side of the street (4:10). They follow an usher into the auditorium. He gets drinks from a table while she politely turns away as he pays for them (4:51). They speak to another couple and make introductions. They exit the play and make plans to go to a diner. They both study the menus and he suggest the hamburger deluxe (6:09). She checks the price of the burger deluxe and orders something of equivalent price. She tells him she will have the chicken salad. He orders for both of them (6:36). They have an awkward silence. She breaks it buy telling him she is having a nice time. They begin to chat and he inquiries about her charm bracelet (7:15). She shows it off and tells him she made it. He studies it and asks more questions. The waitress brings their food. They prepare to leave, he pulls out her chair and places her coat over her shoulders (8:09). He then leaves a tip on the table. They talk outside of her house. He walks away and they wave to each other (9:23). Two teenage boys enter a house, one runs up the stairs. The other flips open a notebook that has a phone number for “Kay” (9:48). He yells up the stairs that they should call her and invite her to the community center on a double date. The other boy comes down the stairs with a tennis racquet. He dials Kay on his rotary phone and invites her to see “Wagon Train” in the movie theatre. She has already seen it, but agrees to volunteer at the scavenger sale (11:00). Teenagers decorate the community center with crepe paper streamers and paper elephants (12:13). Kay dusts an antique lamp. He helps her put up a sign that says “Knick-Knacks.” She leaves to help with refreshments. He notices a list of activities on a bulletin board (14:27). He points to “Bike Trip To Rock Point.” He imagines him, Kay and another couple riding bicycles. He then imagines them grilling hotdogs over a fire at a weenie roast, they climb the bleachers at a baseball game, people swim laps in a pool, they square dance in a rec room, have a picnic outside on a table. He nods and smiles while imaging all of the possibilities for dates with Kay (15:31). The two boys in suits buy movie tickets and enter the theatre with the girls. Him and Kay sit down with bottles of Coca-Cola and talk about things they like to do (16:30). They decide to the weenie roast on a double date.
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[@poetcomic1]

When she is showing him her charm bracelet she says "I make a lot of my own jewelry" but the captions for the hearing impaired said "I make a lot of my own children." which I found actually more impressive.

[@drewconway7135]

Well abortions were harder to come by, back then

[@poetcomic1]

Classic. I have seen some funny CC mistakes but that is well up there.

[@65gtotrips]

That’s sooo funny…yea well the AI butchered that one !

[@pennypay1]

That Kay is a swell girl. And Nick, while a bit awkward, is an agreeable and considerate guy. It warmed this middle-aged woman's heart when Nick found out, to his surprised happiness, that Kay liked miniature golf and weenie roasts and scavenger sales as much as he did.

[@susanortega6666]

These are great tips! I followed them to the queue. The young lady and I are now best friends and she talks to me about all the other guys she's seeing....

[@sdkz995]

If she rejects you, report her for being a communist spy

[@manhoot]

Love Danny's bow tie.

[@markreed171]

These are truly the best of times. Manners, ettiquette, appropriately dressed.....very nice!! On a side note Danny will not be getting a good night kiss on the first date. Then i think to myself gosh.....ive gotten 🧒 on the first date. Jus sayin. Seriously though, this era was priceless!! 😉

[@scratchdog2216]

A first date visit to a bookstore/cafe' for a bit is a great place to learn about each other.

[@briancrane7634]

memories...nice to remember a time when dating was civilized...I grew up during this time...the govt didn't hesitate to tell young people the 'proper' way to act...not that it worked!...when I was out of high school it was the sixties...you know!...the bomb, hippies, Vietnam, demonstrations, 'free love'...all that. The 'proper' behavior here was pretty much abandoned.

[@edwardliquorish8540]

It all makes sense now. Would like to see the whole series.

[@packersnerd]

If only you could use this in modern times… 😢

[@AuroraBoarder1]

Why not? Maybe we can set a trend!

[@deniseherud]

Wow! These kids had classier, better dates than we do now😳 They were more civilized in that restaurant than the majority of ppl these days.

[@eddieafterburner]

6:36 I was half expecting Danny to order “a chicken salad sandwich on wheat toast, no butter, no lettuce, no mayonnaise, oh, and hold the chicken … between your knees!”

[@bobdobbs9096]

An appropriate day (Valentine's Day) to upload this. :)

[@lindathrall5133]

THAT'S A GOOD IDEA

[@lilblackduc7312]

Timing is everything! 💖

[@PeriscopeFilm]

@bobdobbs9096 glad you made the connection! We often schedule films of interest on "special" days. Next up -- April 1st stay tuned.

[@bobdobbs9096]

@@PeriscopeFilm Figured, & appreciated! It's kind of scary that things like this were made, but that could be said about many of the films in your archive. :)

[@justinconroy5621]

@@PeriscopeFilm for april fools day

[@jfiorello68]

9:34 starts a second short from 1951 called "What To Do on a Date".

[@masterbondofox8982]

The second short had a couple of notable pieces missing. It was edited well enough that they wouldn't have been missed if one wasn't familiar with the short already

[@lindathrall5133]

MY MOTHER PAID FIFTY CENTS FOR A HAMBURGER

[@tomtbi]

Weren't those the days!!

[@CowSaysMooMoo]

@@tomtbi That's equivelent to 5.60 today....nothings changed.

[@drewconway7135]

OH MY GOD LET’S GO SCREAM ABOUT IT ON THE INTERNET

[@packersnerd]

Great video for Valentine’s Day 😂

[@joeguzman3558]

When getting married really mean getting married Lol

[@justinconroy5621]

thanks for the infomation of the movie glad you like it happy valetines day!

[@Ltulrich]

My, how times have changed.

[@bboucharde]

Western civilization values at mid-20th century.

[@blockcl]

Alice and Danny sound more like a contract negotiation than a high school date.

[@Ryzaki961]

This was an amazing was! Times were more simple back in the day!

[@lilblackduc7312]

People were more polite & decent to each other...Girls practiced modesty, something unheard of nowadays! 🇺🇸 😎👍☕

[@gi70st]

@@lilblackduc7312 They also had cleaner rooms. Now we have girls taking selfies in front of piles of trash and laundry

[@tomtbi]

You got that right . I think I was born about 20 years or so too late....

[@Deathmastertx]

Well, at least it was in the world of Coronet instructional films. They're really quite fascinating in the way they tend to show a very systematised world of social interaction. We mustn't mistake what these instructional videos portray as to what was actually common practice during the period.

[@lilblackduc7312]

@@Deathmastertx For the sake of argument, let's say 'Coronet films' set a not-so idealistic standard, compared to what was actually common practice during the period. Now, decades later, where are the videos that set today's standard? Movies & music videos?!?! They're crude, vulgar, lacking any moral compass or modesty. Compared to what Coronet depicted, today's examples are essentially declaring, "Throw the meat on the grill & call out the dogs"!!! Today's "common practice" then, is so vile, it isn't worthy of mentioning here.

[@lightdark00]

I have to wonder if there's a Tinder date etiquette video now.

[@TrapperAaron]

There is a video on Tinder dating etiquette. I think it's called "No means NO!"

[@gi70st]

Yeah, pay the ho when you're done

[@commentatron]

No need, only one rule: don't sleep with your date before the first date.

[@jacquelynsharp9354]

Wouldn't get far bc all guys do these days is use you,want sex once and ghost you,or you get ready for hours only to be outside waiting in hot sun,makeup melting off,expensive perfume wasted no show,no call or text saying why or nothing!!!these days just show an Eileen woros story that's wut us women today are feeling like😡😡😡😡🤡😡🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬😠🤡💩💩💩😺

[@Nunofurdambiznez]

All I have to say is "if ONLY..."

[@AuroraBoarder1]

💯‼️. We could definitely use this today!

[@edasm4113]

Gosh yes! Neat.

[@Chernochegger]

They had to go all in with the milk

[@dotell3359]

Wow 😳 sixty five cents for a hamburger deluxe. Today your lucky to get away with twenty dollars.

[@lightdark00]

Thanks to the federal reserve removing the value of our money. 💫

[@jamesTBurke]

I pay 20 bucks just to feed myself

[@BeingFireRetardant]

Came here for this, lol.

[@AuroraBoarder1]

True, but what was minimum wage in those days?

[@brianarbenz1329]

@@AuroraBoarder1 That's the part all these nostalgia buffs don't want to hear.

[@michelereid]

Wow….to think datings just swipe right & a “you up?” Nowadays 😫😫😫😫

[@jacquelynsharp9354]

Yes!!!im55,white fine polite,dress to the nines only to get no texts til midnight, saying "you up?"or "wyd"stupid sh*t I'm so traumatized by dating site free,trying to get to know a guy asking questions, making polite conversations, and outta nowhere they say something like, do you deep thr**t"?SICK SICK MADDENING 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢

[@michelereid]

@@jacquelynsharp9354 yup…..the worlds a different place now. When I was a teenager…we had to dial home Telephones and speak to our crushes. Texting has changed it all. ☹️☹️☹️☹️

[@drdean9913]

20-year-old Carol Burnett

[@johnnyb3126]

Thing's used to be so simple

[@calvinjackson8110]

I think that's what I miss the most. The simplicity. Today in 2024 everything is so complicated. There were just things back then you could count on and were fixed. You didn't have to figure out or think twice about. Now everything is questioned and the complexity resulting from trying to accommodate everybody's freedom and "rights". It's not even male or female anymore but you have to include other combinations of the two. CONFUSING.

[@scrateshooter]

​@@calvinjackson8110 Things are still simple; if the guy is a 7' tall jacked billionaire.

[@tookitogo]

I can’t wait to see what Huggbees creates out of this!

[@missdebbie8131]

Oh, now I am feeling nostalgic and I wasn't even born in the 50's. You know what I miss? Good manners. Consideration. Chivalry. Men could be men and women could be ladies and nobody was saying stupid things like "gender is a construct" or " I can order my food! Open my door etc." or " call me by my chosen pronouns". People got way too much time on their hands, and parents who don't want to be bothered. The old days and old ways are the best, especially looking at the sad decay of our country now.

[@pennypay1]

I was born in '71. I feel the same way about the depressing downfall in consideration and chivalry, and I miss the days before all this militant gender/social engineering took hold. I really enjoy these 50s and 40s social guidance films; so many of their messages (should) apply today.

[@scrateshooter]

Remember, current society is what you women wanted.

[@calvinjackson8110]

The tip he left was only a few coins!

[@eddieafterburner]

Never did work out with Danny for Alice, but she later met Bob, with whom she went on to invent modern cryptographic protocols and public key encryption.

[@ghostmanscores1666]

Danny found uranium on his families property and is glad he didn't marry Alice. He is now 87 with a nineteen year old wife.

[@65gtotrips]

I can almost guarantee the teenagers back when this film came out were making fun of it even in the early 1950’s.

[@chuckrawlings9518]

Unintentional MST3K reference at 5:24

[@jfiorello68]

MST3K also riffed the second part of this video - it's called "What To Do on a Date." The MST3K episode is 503 with the main movie "Swamp Diamonds."

[@brianl0604]

Danny can do better. Just sayin'.

[@Discopuss]

This is way before my time, when there was a basic expectation of propriety between men and women. The whole point was to determine overall compatibility, and it seems far less "transactional." Of course, roles were very different, and I'm talking from a guy's perspective. When I was actively dating in the 90's and 00's, I noticed a lot of women had some kind of "victim" story about how horrible her ex treated her. How unhappy she was and all her life problems. LOL, not attractive on a first date! Then, if you didn't want to date them again, you became the next problem guy. These days, I can't imagine what younger guys go through.

[@janscott602]

The meal with drinks was $1.50, so he tipped the waitress a whopping .15 cents.

[@MichaelPowell-yn1dx]

I see some of this is outdated but I have used basic rules from this video such as having the masculine lead Etc and Ive never had a bad expirence. Just know what is outdated

[@blanchiep]

Why do the girls look like they are old enough to be my grandmother?

[@cynthiahintz1900]

I know what you mean ..... hair styles for one

[@KenKurkowski]

@@cynthiahintz1900 Back then short styles were quite popular with young girls, not just with older women.

[@TrapperAaron]

Soo what is the tip on a $0.65 hamburger and a $0.40 chicken salad sandwich? Thank you ma'am the meal was excellent here is $0.20 don't spend it all in one place.

[@edwardliquorish8540]

$0.20 would buy a pack of 20 cigarettes and a Choo Choo Bar.

[@roseary9198]

Bout 15¢ based on 15% tip

[@seaofmadness2622]

Also my mom told me that giving one penny along with the tip meant that you got good service while you dined there

[@drewconway7135]

@@roseary9198Closer to 20¢ once you add the two glasses of milk

[@chrishiggens9225]

Two glasses of milk. I can't imagine teens today ordering that with their meal. The country is hooked on sof t drinks and energy drinks. Another reason why kids weren't obese then.

[@drewconway7135]

Milk isn’t great for you, either

[@johncampbell3735]

I just meet the girls at the bedroom window. I make sure the parents fast asleep.

[@kevincurry4735]

Danny being polite he walked on curbside. That what Alice said to the policeman when the 1948 Red Ford convertible ran over the curb and slam Danny against the White Oak tree injuring him greatly.

[@SimirJohnson]

Wait till they find out Danny didn’t wear clean underwear!

[@kevincurry4735]

😆😂🤣

[@haroldlxxv9680]

lolz

[@justinconroy5621]

really this might be a joke

[@drewconway7135]

@@justinconroy5621You think?

[@tookitogo]

I’m pretty sure that a weenie roast and taffy pull are code names for… other stuff. 😂

[@terrymcnaughton1430]

That was a fun video, thanks 👍

[@PeriscopeFilm]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@lightdark00]

The audio really needed to be cleaned up. 😕

[@peterparker9286]

All these videos are the real deal. Periscope does it that way to Honor the content and Plagiarism of theifs.

[@PeriscopeFilm]

@lightdark00 appreciate the feedback -- but we believe in showing these films to the world pretty much as people experienced them back when they were projected in the classroom. That means we don't digitally enhance picture or audio, unless it's really a total mess. : )

[@lightdark00]

@@PeriscopeFilm I'm doubting the audio was in that shape originally.

[@wmalden]

The audio sounded great to me.

[@hiketas3565]

Are those prices in dollar at the restaurant???

[@warreneckels4945]

No, they are prices in cents. 100 cents = 1 dollar; 0.01 dollars = 1 cent.

[@hiketas3565]

@@warreneckels4945 Thank you!

[@cancel1913]

Winnie roast must have been code for another activity back then I suppose.

[@HuskerHank4866]

And nobody had a clue on sex ed. Whoops...I thought only bad girls got pg and I'm a good girl so WTF? And just in case I gave myself a cocoa douche at the drive in.....

[@AuroraBoarder1]

They were VERY knowledgeable about sex. That's why they had a healthy respect for it.

[@TheGlenn8]

Today we just clap our asses on Tinder. Much easier.

[@thewkovacs316]

CONFORM

[@jamestiscareno4387]

Conform ? Everyone should practice good manners. What's wrong with being a gentleman ? Why wouldn't you want to be well mannered ?

[@wmalden]

No kiss on the first date? Today, sex on a first date is the norm.

[@williamv.v.3706]

I wish loll

[@AuroraBoarder1]

Right. And look at the results!

[@warreneckels4945]

I always thought it was no sex until the third date unless you were promiscuous by 1980s standards. Now it's probably safer to wait until you're actually married. Amazing how what's old becomes new again.

[@tookitogo]

Yet the data shows that the actual percentage of teen sexual activity has gone down significantly (from 48% to 40% from 2007 to 2017, for example, for the percentage of high schoolers who have ever had sex at all). Teen pregnancy is down. All the signs point towards todays kids being _more_ responsible, not less!!! The only thing that has gone down is the age at first intercourse. But that aligns with many other aspects of adolescence that are occurring faster, including physical development.

[@johnrudy9404]

The bow tie. Making guys look like dweebs since forever. Danny is a bit slow...

[@brianarbenz1329]

Some good basic advice about social communication in this,. But ordering to the girl's food as well as your own. Yeech! The dark ages.

[@MadawaskaObservatory]

this doesn't feel realistic.

[@SGTDuckButter]

Did Danny score? Nah, Danny’s a closeted homosexual.

[@lightdark00]

Third date or later if he wanted to marry her.

[@TrapperAaron]

Lol right on it was 1952 America. They used to call themselves bachelor's. If u weren't married w 3 kids by 21 people got really suspicious.

[@billhuber2964]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@kevincurry4735]

😀😆😂🤣

[@AuroraBoarder1]

I suppose producing a population of feral illegitimate brats is better than practicing self control and truly caring about your date.

[@jacquelynsharp9354]

Im55 fine wish i could go on a real date,minus all vulgarity and constant sex talk,jokes,innuendo

[@bardo0007]

This educational movie could not be made in 2023. Too many genders. You need to include everyone today or else social media will not leave you alone.,

[@gustaf5753]

And now women have slept with 10 guys before their first date

[@meganghost7206]

Sounds like guys do that a lot too now off days but men only care about purity culture as it pertains to woman but can not fathom holding themselves to the same standards

[@gustaf5753]

@@meganghost7206 i hold myself to that standard. Only interested in serious relationships. Hookups for me is disgusting