Shy Guy (1947)

[@moveslikemacca]

it's strangely comforting when you realize that people have been dealing with the same issues for many many years & you're not alone

[@marley606]

Yes. Humans have always been the same and there has always been lonely people

[@matthewlane518]

The world around us changes rapidly, but for the most part the human experience remains the same, and it is in a way comforting because of it's relatability

[@bunsenn5064]

Yeah. The world changes, and the way we deal with things changes, but we’ve been dealing with the same struggles and experiences for ages.

[@alastairpearce8278]

@@marley606 and you don't have to be one of those 'alone people'.

[@abramslion1]

Yes but nowadays we get negative reinforcement instead of positive ones...

[@dr.woozie7500]

This may be over 70 years old, but the advice still applies today. Having meaningful conversations is the best way to bond with people and make friends.

[@DAClub-uf3br]

Yes 76 Years as of today.

[@mineland66]

I was really surprised because I also am a teenager and I love building and learning about radios. The sad part is that no one of my age will care, like those of the video. Nowadays with those ultra high standarts for entretainment, small hobbies like my own are rare, and I sometimes feel angry for that.

[@_John_Tyree_]

Wow. That's got to be tough to find someone that is into radios nowadays; everything is pretty much streamed. If I had a friend that was into radios, of which, I know very little about, I would just watch them and learn and help them out if I could, an extra set of hands, maybe. That's what I do with video games. I suck at them, but I like watching others play, especially when they are really good at it. It's like watching a movie as it unfolds of which don't know how it will end. I always say I'm a gamers best friend because they don't have to take turns with me, I just watch. 😆 Maybe you could find someone like that who likes to learn new things. You know enough about radios to teach them. To you, I dedicate the song "Radio Ga Ga" by Queen. @@mineland66

[@kmmediafactory]

@@mineland66I’ve been getting into amateur radio recently, it’s pretty interesting but it’s such a small and niche field, not many lol

[@AthelstanKing]

​@@mineland66people like being asked questions about themselves as most people are pretty egotistical and wont pass up an opportunity to talk about themselves, and will subconsciously like people who give them ample opportunity to do so. Do with that information what you will.

[@blackshawgrim456]

Honestly, for introverts, it's really sweet for that guy to offer him a seat at the table like that.

[@JohnJones-gu3rs]

LUCHAERIST I’m about to cry because of it 😂

[@matsupnad1127]

Yap I fell out of my bed because I over flattered..

[@lasofi5510]

:")

[@francolombardo9290]

I'm with u I'm gay and that's how I met my boyfriend b 4 he cheated on me😥

[@midorimashintaro2092]

​@@francolombardo9290he didn't deserve you anyway

[@ChazMcGutter]

A lot of these old educational films get a bad rap but I like a lot of these. Most of them were made with good intentions to try to help and guide the youth in a way they thought was best and I can respect that.

[@louio]

Yes most people in the comments down play it by cherry & nitpicking it

[@pola5392]

​​@@louioany person's effort can be criticised, and people just so happen to be experts in pointing out others mistakes, but look at me I'm complaining about other people already see how easy it is lol

[@antoy384]

I was thinking of doing it for today’s youths (It’s our turn to share what we’ve learnt, guys!) but imagine giving advice in the era where your tiktok standing is a thing. Yeah try writing snapchats with advice and sharing them to minors… lol, joking, that’s one way to jail, but more seriously, I’m not sure what advice from the 1980ies could be relevant for today’s teenagers. (Also: Those vids don’t have a bad rep at all, why did you think that).

[@GeorgeLimberton]

​@@antoy384a lot of advice is still relevant. Some might not want to hear about it, but as a youth myself, I feel really well informed after videos such as these

[@ScottPalmer-mp1we]

Those who give it a bad rap probably do so because it exposes their lack of social skills.

[@codybettencourt5960]

Watching these videos gives me a sense of peace. I don't know why. It's just so simple. Like watching a show except no real drama or action.

[@ricardoabad419]

Because there is no audiovisual- overstimulation.

[@jfmc2581]

MAGA!!!

[@shakingbirdart]

Cody Bettencourt That's precisely why I'm watching, too! And it's comforting to hear the good, old fashioned advice. Wish this was still taught.

[@SkunkApeMeg]

Same!

[@lasofi5510]

X2 😶

[@katie_cant_compute]

"There must be more to getting along with people than just wearing a sweater"

[@lazyhomebody1356]

The philosophy in these is deep. Deep.

[@lorettalynn2723]

Unfortunately the rest Is a mystery

[@mikezylstra7514]

Kissing ass incessantly is very important.

[@kn_halo]

@@lorettalynn2723the black pill explains it imo

[@JetScreamer_YT]

Not if you were a woman.

[@mockingjayvia6227]

I am actually VERY invested in the lives of these characters and 13 minutes is not enough to satisfy me. I need to know what happens after!!!!!!

[@edwardgaines6561]

What endeared these characters so strongly to you?

[@bigbubba7753]

@@edwardgaines6561 Probably relatability.

[@oliverbrownlow5615]

Well, we know what happened to Dick York (Phil). He was prosecuted for teaching evolution, and then he married a witch.

[@lasofi5510]

Jaja lol

[@antoy384]

It’s like Esteban Zia Tao and the Golden Cities. Esteban and Zia don’t even kiss when they are on the top of the mountain at the end of the series. Do you think they grew up in love? Damn it’s fiction.

[@justanothermortal1373]

As a shy person, I can tell you. People aren't shy. They're insecure. They are afraid of being misheard or judged for speaking out or acting confidently. We feel shy when we don't feel like we fit in with a group. This is why I can be very outspoken with my friends but when I'm around strangers, I turn into a wallflower.

[@Seattlefan77]

yes... Shy.

[@chickensoupforthetrutherss925]

As a 20-year-old living in today's society I realize just how much is wrong with me when I watch these kind of videos...

[@morganstern3811]

Savannah same here...

[@slothoncocaine9848]

So true. I started mimicking some of the lessons taught here and life is definitely improving

[@admiralgoodboy]

I started watching these from pure curiosity realised alot about myself and see

[@jamesogrady6612]

Savannah I hated the 70s except The Partridge Family show that was my first music. City buses let people smoke weed & drink beer. Concerts had little security. My 8th grade half were smoking cigarettes. 1 Friend said his Neighbors gave him beer to cut there lawns. My School years were bad grade School all nun teachers. High School all boys School. I shouldn't complain about High School it was free cause my Dad was a Football Coach. 1 thing bugs me I still have Irish Freckels on my face. Our Irish Family is so big us kids have 16 first cousins

[@jaworskij]

Yeah, I wish I had seen a film like this in the 70s.

[@asvalias]

This film alone worth dozens if not hundreds 'self-improvement' videos. It's really well-thought film that definitely had good intentions and father wasn't like typical KZbinr 'DO THIS INSTEAD' and just by giving simple advice to redirect his attention on people around, he was able to help his son.

[@raj18x]

I agree on this

[@jacealbine]

It's the old teach a person to fish versus giving the person a fish. He set him up with a way to figure out his problems now and in the future. Not every solution works for each problem.

[@danclydefrancisbaoy]

Most of self-improvement today is entices you and more on quantity. And then these old videos are simple, concise, and natural. I have seen a few of these old videos, I must say old but gold.

[@justanothermortal1373]

That man deserves Best Dad of The Year award

[@harunbektas8253]

Well, KZbinrs don't concern themselves with teaching something. They only need to convince you that the advice they are giving might be helpful so that you would want to watch their other videos.

[@ih82r8]

Listen, Be Polite, Help Others...yes how simple and elegant the 50s were. I wish they'd showed us movies like this when I was in school.

[@jaworskij]

I am Gen X, attended Elem. school in the 70s. I'll tell ya... Back then, for the teacher to show us a film like this, meant a lot of work. Had to borrow the film from the Sch. Div (takes days), borrow a 16 mm projector from the library. Have a student thread the film (or teacher did it), dim the lights, tell the students to STFU. Monitor film so that it doesn't break or other technical issues arise. These days its sooo easy. Search KZbin for content. Switch Input on LCD projector to laptop or desktop. Press Play and select Full Screen on KZbin player.

[@thechicagorailfan9234]

I wish so too.

[@RaptorFromWeegee]

@@jaworskijMe too, I'm gen-x and remember those days well. Sometimes if we were good the teacher would run the movie backwards fast motion. We thought it was hilarious! Listen, be polite, help others??! We were just starting to get away from that stuff in the 70s. Now a days its, "Don't listen, peacock, invent a gender, and denounce others as racists.

[@Mr.__Sofi]

​@@RaptorFromWeegeeyeah highschool nowadays is wayyy too confusing, not only the work but also social interactions.

[@RaptorFromWeegee]

@@c.d.mccullum9421 Are you calling me impolite?

[@dkennell998]

I would love to think that we're hitting a post-irony age where Coronet Films and other films like them can once again be appreciated and learned from as they were originally intended to be. I think the message to direct your attention outwards to others is a simple but important one thats easy to forget. In an age saturated by sarcasm and style, a genuinely well-intentioned piece like this strikes a very refreshing note.

[@RaptorFromWeegee]

Just remember, when you get to your new school, just wear a sweater and "regular shirt", no need for a suit like you had in Morristown. Apparently, the boys there wore suits every day to school! I feel like if I traveled back in time to attend this 1947 school, I'd be like Jack Nicholson arriving on the mental ward in 'One Flew Over The Coo-coos Nest'.

[@Murgatroydian]

Interesting observation. "Post-irony age" sounds apt for what I've been observing about these films and the reactions in the comments. I was expecting a slew of cynicism and innuendo as there probably would have been if hypothetically shown in the 80s through to recent years. Admittedly, I was ready to join in the fray but immediately held back after witnessing a more genuine wonder and appreciation for this era and its wisdom.

[@tten8192]

That’s a great point. Educational videos on topics like these you may find on KZbin tend to be so derivative of some sort of subculture or painted over by whatever red blue or black pill the creator has taken. Whereas here it was just accepted that it’s ok to want to fit in and be normal because that’s what makes humans feel connected.

[@aoeulhs]

Yes, this is how I remember High School. The popular kids were helpful and good listeners.

[@lazyhomebody1356]

I miss them so

[@Phil_Melone]

I know really. It's a fantasy world.

[@BrooklynBaby100]

Really? I remember the popular kids being cold, icy and kept to their own cliques.

[@savagetv6460]

@@BrooklynBaby100 what decade were you in high school

[@leinanightray4294]

I grew up in the 2000s and the popular kids were mean, haughty and would gossip about everyone, a completely different mentality

[@dumbo753]

As a very shy kid, teachers always told my parents "it's a problem but she'll grow out of it. She talks a lot one on one but not in groups" . I was an observer, I was good at a lot of things extroverts aren't good at. It took a long time to realize I never had a "problem". I was just different and that's normal.

[@jasond.gregory9184]

That's so well said by you, I experienced the same thing in elementary school with my teachers saying the same thing about me. If teachers say it's a problem when kids are shy, it really is lazy on the teachers part not to accept their shyness and try to instill confidence in the students it just requires effort on the the teachers part.

[@Cosford869]

I was told the same. Left me feeling abnormal and I became even more of an introvert.

[@frankmariani1259]

?recognize the guy. Darren from Bewitched.

[@MicahjHunter]

is it possible to ever find romantic love if I act the same way

[@Ali08]

I used to hear/known people who said something similar to me as a child. My own daughter got the same response said to her face and I had to let one gym coach know she is reserved and it is okay. It is highly annoying because a part of us do not understand why teachers or whomever else have to point out how shy or quiet a child is, like their words is the key to help change a person. They are the awkward ones! If people do not understand they should educate themselves but most won't care to try.

[@emmaduncan2991]

I will say one thing, the kids in this high school are quite nice to each other, unlike my high school was exactly like Heathers.

[@jamesogrady6612]

emma Duncan So much for Catholics being Catholics my 8th grade half of them were drinking & smoking

[@VidiiVodii]

To be fair, I'd say a lot of high schools are like heathers or movies like that.

[@michaelalguire419]

@@jamesogrady6612 In my 8th grade Catholic school class some of them were already fucking.

[@UnknownPerson-kb8fo]

@@jamesogrady6612 I swear Catholic schools/ classes are the craziest people

[@lazyhomebody1356]

@@jamesogrady6612 I lived by a Cathlic elementary school, and those kids were SAVAGES

[@TeaRiker]

I finished with school recently. I was not the most popular guy there, but it was impossible to tell who was. Most isolate themselves, don't open up, rarely go outside to meet each other. I knew everyone in my year by name, around 160 pupils, but i couldn't get any of them to open up about anything. No place to hang out. There was no connection between us. Many had relationships though, but you could only figure it out with social media. Today is a really strange time.

[@jamesmiller4184]

Accomplished separation in preparation for total conflict once set loose. And ALL just by accident.

[@steviechampagne]

@@jamesmiller4184damn. you’re absolutely right. whatever is coming, it’s extremely foreboding after the last few years. strong, close-knit communities are the antidote perhaps

[@Imnotfromhere.]

Maybe they are on there phones

[@sufyanlowel4631]

School is a bunch of random kids. Why the hell they must be open with each other only because of the same school???? This is very strange. Now they have the almost whole world to choose for connection

[@TeaRiker]

@@sufyanlowel4631 I can't explain that to you. It would be like describing colour to someone who is colour-blind

[@Lydia-kh6zk]

This is such a good film. I’m super shy and I actually learned a lot from this. Also the shy guy is so sweet and considerate I love it

[@burakvictor9601]

I'm only slightly shy

[@MarcoSimple1Videos]

im shy too

[@antoy384]

One aspect that changed me is, a lot of people are shy, they’re just incredibly uncomfortable acting social in public, some of them just think about hanging themselves while they’re laughing extrovertedly. I know that because And another aspect is, speaking to people is social validation for them. You give them points, they are not judging you awkwardly, they’re just trying to find how to make you speak about something you like. In large conferences, I was also taught: When you see two colleagues bored together at the cocktail, go speak to them. They can’t wait to stop speaking with some guy they speak to every day at work. It’s also two people so twice more chance to find a matching topic. AND last but not least, they were sent to conferences to mingle and encounter other people of the same skills and do some networking, if they come back home with nowt, it won’t be good.

[@RaptorFromWeegee]

I hope you remembered to get to the "class mixer" and be a good listener like Chick Hopkinson

[@foreignerJas_Gaming]

Super shy super shy

[@roslyndecanio81]

Dick York so young here his voice hadn't fully changed yet into his adult voice. Charming and competent actor. He was active in early TV.

[@zkasdarli5749]

I agree and indeed his voice did not change much from when you watch him in bewitched you hear the same old familiar voice 😊

[@ilanamillion8942]

Love, love, love Dick York! He was a kind, caring man in real life and was so great as Darren in Bewitched.

[@cindytrayer4279]

He was 19 yo here

[@TayWoode]

Wow I didn’t even realise it was him at first!

[@batterymakermarkii2654]

Also did a ton of radio roles.

[@bradleymarquette6224]

"I could be the guy to help the guy" BRILLIANT WRITING

[@estherbutler1477]

For a guy who doesn't know anyone, he sure knows everyone's name lol

[@Random_Wierdo.]

Esther Butler No, he just not friends with anyone. Plus it’s a small class,

[@powpowouchy5]

That’s exactly how it is for us introverts. Because we don’t engage in any conversations, we spend our time watching and listening to EVERYONE. We pick up a lot of things that people who would otherwise not be paying attention due to talking among specific people

[@Willybean08]

@@powpowouchy5Exactly... I found out some things that I shouldn't have found out for my age then

[@powpowouchy5]

@nashaleatpo um maybe not the right time and place for this?

[@Willybean08]

@nashaleatpo Iʻm not religious but thanks anyway

[@Pleiodes]

i wanna wear a suit in school... suits are awesome

[@lasofi5510]

what I would give to be able to wear makeup to my school, or wear flowery dresses on hot days don't waste it :(

[@Pleiodes]

Shit i wrote this comment 7 years ago. Now i am an architect and i actually have a few nice suits in my wardrobe

[@mikeoxmaul45]

@@Pleiodes did you a wear a suit in school

[@Lisa05-qd7sk]

in Russia, you can go to school only in a suit

[@thatxonexguy5438]

@@Pleiodes just make sure you get them tailored

[@chnalvr]

The "shy guy" actor would grow up to be a famous and successful actor in a hit 1960s show called, "Bewitched." That guy is Dick York who played Darren Stevens along side Elizabeth Montgomery in "Bewitched."

[@WasabiWarlord75]

Why are people saying this video is messed up for “conformism” and “social engineering”, when its just about getting over being timid and socializing.

[@PeteS_1994]

Ian Gonzalez Caused they have been told that information about the 50s.

[@mekelreen9869]

Pete S. Because the father said to watch the popular kids and act like them to fit in.

[@PeteS_1994]

@@mekelreen9869 True, to an extent I feel the 50s was conformist due to the previous wars. It doesn't mean the 50s was all bad though. Also watching popular kids socialise is probably how one can get better at socialising.

[@mekelreen9869]

Pete S. Of course a good things happened in and came about because of the 50s, no denying that. These videos are however unrealistic at best and detrimental by experience. The 60’s hippies you hear talking about why they were acting that way talked about things like this, the monochromatic way of thinking about life in so many ways. These kinds of aspects of the 50s caused many of the aspects of the 60s that are seen as unfortunate by those who like what these videos portray. The free love, tune in drop out, etc, etc were explicit rejections of these stifling systems.

[@mekelreen9869]

Pete S. I think maybe a way to say it is they tried to turn life, childhood and young adulthood in particular perhaps, into an assembly line. The videos, radio programs, school events and in other ways, designed to manufacture a productive citizen efficiently. Watching them all file out of a room feels like watching cars roll off the production line to me.

[@blueraventv]

The most relatable part is how much he talks to himself😊😊

[@johnkollor]

Don’t worry Darren, no matter what they say to you or do to you they can’t possibly be worse than the mother-in-law

[@deniseherud]

Actually Maurice blew him up...js🤷🏼‍♀️ Endora wasn’t that mean

[@eleanordavies9815]

I thought it was him! Love that series

[@darrylowens59]

Young Dick York!

[@theresafeeney2756]

I knew that was Darren!

[@julienielsen3746]

Things will change when he meets Samantha.

[@friendofdorothy9376]

Dick York was such a handsome guy...great head of hair too. He was 19 in this film. I LOVED when that girl smiled at him when he was at the table and he gosh shucks smiled back.

[@cephuwu]

Being able to connect with the problems of people from as far back as the 40's has actually opened up my mind.

[@grouchosays]

I grew up in the 50’s. I was even more of an outcast than this kid. It was awful and, despite great success in life, I have never forgotten the ache and pain in my heart. I’m 72 and it has never gone away. I remember those innocent years. But the kids were cruel to me. Not so innocent.

[@JakeLikesJoking]

Why were you an outcast? Why were the other kids cruel to you? Were they jealous of you? Was it because you were different or thought differently and they didn’t understand you? We hide and lose so much of ourselves just to be accepted and included (or at the very least not ridiculed) by our communities that we forget what we truly liked and excelled at and who we actually are. I hope you find that pain easier and easier to deal with with time.

[@cscms28]

and people always talk about the good old days, how things were better then

[@justanothermortal1373]

​@@cscms28I mean that's just in the grand scope of things

[@joshmcgill4639]

@@cscms28 simplicity really

[@roboman34]

helps When you got a COOL DAD !

[@douglasharley2440]

society needs to get back to this way of living...competence, honesty, openness, proficiency, respectfulness, and DIGNITY.

[@braindead_boi]

while i do agree that we must go back, I think these films should be taken wtih a grain of salt. the 40s and 50s had some quite strict programming that often showed an idealised view of america. additionally this is made for young men and women still growing up (or at least it seems so). the characters here often serve to show what ought to happen rather than what does happen, even if what does happen isnt even that far from what ought to happen.

[@therageknight8546]

@@braindead_boiI see this as a benefit more than a hindrance. If the content we watch to try and better our lives merely reflects the imperfect reality instead of providing an ideal, how can we ever improve ourselves?

[@braindead_boi]

@@therageknight8546 i've never thought about it like that, perhaps you're right.

[@therageknight8546]

@@braindead_boi wow, I’ve never actually met someone online who is willing to consider alternate positions to their own. That’s maturity. Hats off to you!

[@BabyBugBug]

@@braindead_boiYou are right. For me, the difference is that there were societal standards in this era shown in the video. We have zero - absolutely zero - standards now. This video shows an ideal, yes. Our current America has no ideal because we don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings.

[@nowhereinslowmotion]

I adore stuff from the 50s and wished I had lived in that time (I was a 70s early 80s teen, btw).

[@inferiorintention8629]

@@samfawlia Dam Nigga lol

[@g4meboy13]

@@samfawlia 😂

[@tuesday1672]

nowhereinslowmotion just without the racism and sexism and all that stuff

[@nowthatsjustducky]

This one was 1940s. I am quite happy to have been born when I was, 1968. That meant I got to experience the most awesome decade of the 20th Century as a kid, teen, and young adult. The 70s were pretty okay too as a kid, and then the early 90s served as the after party for the 80s. We are Generation X, and I am pushing us to be called The Awesome Generation.

[@MarshaKlein8425]

@@nowthatsjustducky Fellow Generation X (a.k.a Awesome Generation) here. I was born in the 60s, put up with the dreariness of life in 70s central Scotland then hit my mid teens in the glorious technicolour 80s. It's a decade that gets a lot of stick but I remember it as being great, the best decade to be a teenager. Brightly coloured clothes, decent music and I was naturally a size 6 (not sure what that translates into American but it meant skinny in the UK) and most of all I had my whole life ahead of me. I had my amazing son in 1992 so the 90s were pretty good for me too.

[@robinreid4034]

People sometimes laugh at these old, educational films, but actually, there's a lot of good and sensible advice that never gets out of date. Also, I swear that young man is Dick York, the actor who played Samantha's husband, Darrin, on the old sitcom, Bewitched!

[@astinbudakov7867]

Thought that looked like him

[@bonniekeough244]

This is him at 19.👍

[@multimeter2859]

Damn I wish I had this growing up.

[@asielmilian38]

Same.

[@ilovejacquescousteau7183]

I find it sad I keep reading this comment.

[@arwyn6796]

I like that in this one it's the characters choice to want to open up and it isn't being forced. A lot of these old videos are very clear about everyones place in society so its kinda neat they never said he shouldn't be shy.

[@Timsterfield]

Oh my God, it's Darren Stevens!

[@moonmama24]

My thoughts exactly!

[@moonmama24]

My thoughts exactly!

[@AmyCCloverlanez]

+Tim Rogers LOL i literally said that too then went to comment and ya beat me to it haha!

[@BrainWrap42]

He's so young in this.

[@paulaharrisbaca4851]

Yeah, the GOOD Darren. Not the Dick Sargent one, who was always kinda snarky as opposed to Dick York, who was far more likable. I wonder why Dick York left "Bewitched"....

[@shakerHeightsChannel]

If only kids were this wholesome when I went to school.

[@jamesmiller4184]

Uh, that's "good, clean and wholesome."

[@MartinRiosIII]

These type of videos need to be brought back in the classrooms

[@ConceptuallyYour]

There's nothing better than immersing yourself in vintage melodies, where everything is gentle and quiet. 🌿

[@alanlado1602]

I'm twenty and watching these films about being a young man in the 50s truly teach me quite a lot. I'm glad we can have this for free. The truths in these films are much appreaciated. Also, they're quite well made, the characters are so human, and the situations so relatable...

[@user-mj2lm5fh1j]

This video is good for those students where their classmates are good and nice to each other. Most of the shy people tried and got bullied in return. They were ostracized and made fun of. I am 25 years old and my experience at school being one of those guys who felt left out and got bullied has scarred me for life. I never had any relationship and no longer have any friends. People are not shy, it is just they don't feel invited.

[@RaptorFromWeegee]

That really sucks, I feel for you man. I had a similar experience. I was a tall skinny boy with a "funny looking" face from a broken home. I never had any more than one or two friends at a time. Moved a lot, dysfunctional family, the whole bit. Always felt like I was born with a black cloud hanging over me. No matter what choice I made, it always turned out to be the wrong one. Born fucked, if you will. The 'Shy Guy' film totally leaves out the concept of teenaged hierarchy. Not all are created equal. You might try weed, it kind of helps, sometimes.

[@jamesmiller4184]

Never did I feel any need to 'fit-in' and never did, the pack instinct in me I suppose being left out of my characterological makeup. Only much later in life was I to become an extrovert. Just grew into it -- a natural evolvement I suppose, as contra-distinguished say from devolvement? Still to this much later day I've contempt for the packs.

[@RaptorFromWeegee]

@@jamesmiller4184 Well......aren't you the lucky one. Got to end up an extrovert, did you? Ever wondered what caused that "evolvement", as you call it? Doesn't exactly sound like you were unhappy with your setup as a kid. Doesn't sound like you got beat up, robbed, or ostracized.

[@jamesmiller4184]

@@RaptorFromWeegee Thank you for your proffered response. On all points correct and, well-put !! Your one thing not, however, is that I haven't "wondered" but rather over a very long while now have studied my case and by it concluded certain things. (All solid but, tentative still; naught being of true permanence.) Such may or may not prove relevant to those of others. I am curious as to 'the point' of your considered offering? 🤔

[@allydeath]

I was very sociable when I was a toddler, but since then, kids and teachers were very rude to me and treated me as if I didn't deserve kindness. Now I don't trust anyone and it's extremely difficult for me to make friends or be nice. I prefer to be at home, where no one mistreats me.

[@TXLOVER]

Future electrical engineering student.

[@TXLOVER]

@Adam Brady I'm an EE. I'm trying to find those big bucks. Where they at tho?

[@TXLOVER]

@Adam Brady funny you should say that. My main work is government contract, airports to be exact. My paycheck looking below average, even with my "specialization" in what I do.

[@Me-eb3wv]

@@TXLOVER i thought EE made good cash

[@mikezylstra7514]

@@TXLOVER Look at the pension. That's where gov't work pays. The pension. Make it permanent civil service.

[@TXLOVER]

@@mikezylstra7514 I work as a contractor. So no pension for me. Ideally I’d like to work for the gov directly. They are going to need new workers at the site I’m at in 4 years. So possibly I may be hired.

[@sarifjabarudin44]

What a great dad he has

[@Yobbie72]

yeah, he's pretty cool...talks like he's introducing a TV show tho.

[@NP4Mayans]

Get a job at an advertising agency, make sure the boss is a doofus, and marry a pretty witch. There, problem solved!

[@seanluve]

NP4Mayans 😂

[@Keychain696]

SAM!

[@Keychain696]

@hij No, Bewitched

[@mcrosemasters3060]

Yes thank you! Lol I actually made a comment asking who he was because he looked familiar.

[@robk.6591]

😆

[@happysloth4441]

“There it goes again, even when you bump into people they hardly know your alive.” Wow that went right for my heart 😶 and still relatable today

[@michelleaudet7709]

Solid advice..More people in today's society need to watch this

[@beautifulportland9592]

Good advice in 1948, great advice in 2019!

[@louio]

Terrific advice in 2023!

[@shonkysidewayssam6134]

These videos are on point and should be considered in today’s way of life. Old school values are valuable..

[@RaptorFromWeegee]

You're wrong, we never found out what everyones genders were

[@Mr.__Sofi]

​@@RaptorFromWeegeeit's sad that we've come to a point where I can't tell if this is a joke or not

[@RaptorFromWeegee]

@@Mr.__Sofi You're right, actually. But I'm at the point now where I realize theres not a god damned thing I can do about it, except to laugh at our predicament. Laugh as Rome burns and we, of the West, go to hell in a hand basket. We're DONE, the creeps have won, and I see nothing changing unless a certain "thing" occurs, a very drastic thing. But I don't see that happening.

[@sufyanlowel4631]

Yeah. Like no black kids.

[@based-iranian]

​@@sufyanlowel4631that wasn't the point

[@bearfeet57spirit45]

This actor is Dick York - he was Darren in Betwitched. Awesome to see him as such a young youth!

[@AthelstanKing]

This is more useful than dozens of sessions at a modern psychologist lol

[@joedaw3003]

He has a good future. He will star in a TV comedy one day.

[@gaboltl]

I wasn’t sure if it was him or just a look, thanks for the hint.

[@CookieDeelite]

Yeah, but his wife will be a real witch. And his mother-in-law will be the Mother of all witches!

[@joedaw3003]

@@CookieDeelite 😂😂

[@robertoleal9717]

Creo que fue protagonista de una serie exitosa de los años 70 "Dallas"interpretaba a un magnate tejano; el actor era Larry Hagman, quien en los 60 actuara en "Mi bella genio"

[@chelzeydarling]

Anyone else think they were born in the wrong time era! People seemed very polite back then.

[@nkn4773]

Yup. :')

[@amyl6041]

@@nkn4773 Then there's Eddie Haskell

[@lazyhomebody1356]

@@amyl6041 Now, excuse me! Eddie knew his manners!

[@TallyWackaTha2nd]

Yes, the 50s. Homophobia, racism, and misogyny. Oh, What A Time To Be Alive.

[@TallyWackaTha2nd]

correction; Late 40s

[@laurene988]

I don't know how I got so invested in this shy guys problem I was literally cheering him on to take his shot when he saw an opening

[@emilyroberts3832]

What kind of sadistic parents name their son Chick?

[@williamperkins9349]

Amilie Dechanelle could be short for Christopher or Charles.

[@Stcomdoc]

Maybe "chick" wasn't a slang term in the 1930's.

[@mikepeterson764]

+Emily Roberts Chick Webb, Chick Hearn. Their parents would.

[@JohnDoe-du8by]

+Emily Roberts Chick is always doing things for people, and it pays off with friends

[@daw162]

People with the last name Corea, I guess.

[@lefthookouchmcarm4520]

I think i just realized that sequence around 7:30, when he is being invited over to the table, has happened so much to me, but I would get super anxious and pretend i didnt see it. I didnt realize I had extreme social anxiety until my late 30s. Folks you gotta teach your kids about mental health

[@user-nc5zf4dq3w]

same for me when i was in high school. i can at least fake it through job interviews to get a job now that i'm older but I still have that same social anxiety beneath

[@DJL3G3ND]

I wont lie I kinda appreciate the dads honesty at 3:16, people have always told me "how to be like the other kids" or something but some people are just naturally shy in this way, can still fit in but wont be "like the others" Im sure this video is relatable for a lot of people but for me I even see the similarity of how he sits at home working on his radio rather than going out meeting the other kids, which reminds me a lot of how all Ive ever done through school even to this day is sit in my room working on game projects or something on my computer. sure some people may be interested, but no ones ever cared too much and at the end of the day Im still just at home all the time

[@wheres_bears1378]

I actually find these videos more informative and practical than any those new age psycho babble videos on KZbin. Realistic and practical

[@ǟօռ-u2u]

I love these so much, it's like looking into whole new world

[@ǟօռ-u2u]

old*

[@JStrike42]

Starring a young Dick York who was a fine actor. He was in many tv shows and was the first Darrin on Bewitched.

[@greenaum]

Yeah the second Darrin was rubbish! Dick York was a great fool, he'd react all sorts of amusing ways to Samantha and her family's antics. Dick Sargent just sort of grouchily complained, couldn't react to being the butt of the joke. Useless! Dick York had to leave because he had crippling back problems. He could barely stand. As time went on the show tried to contrive ways to film him lying down, in bed or on the couch or however else, or put him behind objects so he could be propped up as well as possible. Poor bloke, but also a shame for the show when they replaced him with his complete opposite who was useless to the show.

[@JStrike42]

@@greenaum Agree totally.

[@tradbimbo]

why does the store window just say drugs with nothing else.

[@tradbimbo]

Like it doesn't say drug store just drugs.

[@greggi47]

That town had a remarkably lax and lenient attitude toward chemical control of behavior. The kids were drinking chocolate cokes laced with Soma, the preferred control substance in Huxley's BRAVE NEW WORLD.

[@mikeoxmaul45]

*DRUGS*

[@adamhenrywalker]

10:55 Oh Susanna! I’d recognize that tune anywhere. It’s epic to think that decades apart, we’re still singing the same song

[@sitarnut]

One would have had to of lived back then as I - but I mainly miss those girls so much...the hair, the pleated skirts, everything - nothing on the planet like them anymore... laugh about our fifties innocence if you will, but it gave us Time to grow up.... and a lot of sweet memories.

[@renskedj]

They're still on the planet. Just a little bit older. But my mom still thinks she's 18. Lately a guy yelled: hey girls against boys? when we played soccer w my kids and she stood in the goal with 84.

[@Schnipp08]

According to Imdb: The guy who played Phil (Dick York) was born in 1928 and already died in 1992. The voice of the narrator (Mike Wallace) was born in 1918 and died in 2012. The actor who played the father (Frank Ferguson) was born in 1906 and died in 1978. The guy who played Beezy Barnes (Bill Fein) was born in 1929 and died in 2011. I did not find birth data to the other young actors unfortunately. The director of this film was Ted Peshak who was born in 1917 and died in 2005. The educational advisor Dr. Alice Sowers was born in 1891 and died in 1978. The editor of this film was George Wilbern who was born in 1915 and died in 1993. The producer David Smart was born in 1892 and died in 1952.

[@greenaum]

Nice. What I thought was a pleasant little film is now the shadows of dead men, the voices of young ghosts, trapped in the decaying bodies of 80 year olds. They died in the '70s and were buried in flared trousers, and now they're dust, bones, and shadows on celluloid. The drug store milkshake booths are long gone, and will be forever, as the sun ages and goes out, and one by one all of it's kind follow, until there's nothing left but cold rock, crumbling in perfect darkness, for ever, and ever, and ever.

[@catpokerlicense]

This comment is hard asf

[@GreggTO]

He overcomes his problem by being useful to the group. Hmmmm.

[@Roma-kp4qg]

It's like Rudolph all over again

[@deniseherud]

And getting Sam to put a spell on them with a twitch of her nose😂

[@weissbrot-rg9hd]

I would have needed this waaaaaaaaaay sooner. Damn, these really are helpful. Thank you very much for posting these old short movies!

[@dhsjakhdsajk]

they need to make and show films like this nowadays, this taught me stuff i havent learnt in school

[@MekonenMeteor123]

this is actually an incredibly good format to teach people social skills……

[@sufyanlowel4631]

Grab a girl and c'mon. Indeed, genius advice for teenagers.

[@LizLovesLollipops]

Dick York was a cutie!

[@deniseherud]

Right! I thought he was goofy/cute on Bewitched but here he’s really hot, like Jake Ryan hot🥰

[@OwnedByAGrey]

Holy smokes, it’s Dick York as “Phil”! I love these little films. 😊

[@Sparkina]

It is indeed Dick York, as a mere slip of a lad!

[@johnnie543]

Not sure what makes me feel older: The fact that I know this isn't Crispin Glover from _Back to the Future_ or the fact that I do know this is Dick York from _Bewitched_

[@QueenKeda_444]

I knew that was him!!! 😂 I'm 39.

[@deniseherud]

I was already blaming Endora for making him invisible to the other kids 😂 ...Dagwood...David....Darwin...😂

[@mollflanders9314]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@chronobot2001]

I love how he wears a tie even when he is working at the workbench.

[@jamesmiller4184]

My grandmother and her pals used to dress in furs and things to go weekend shopping! (Thirties/Forties.) Not too long before, grand dads were wearing top hats. Things have DEVOLVED into slovenliness and oh-so-casual = 'we just don't give a sh-t anymore.'

[@JayJayinNYC]

Awwww where's Samantha when you need her? lol

[@Darsithis]

get shrekt that’s Dick York, the original Darrin from Bewitched, a 60’s show. Elizabeth Montgomery played his witch wife, Samantha

[@michaelalguire419]

@get shrekt From Bewitched. The shy kid is Darren from that show. Atleast he looks like him. Another student video I saw had Jim Morrison in it.

[@vickihshallenberger3644]

That's Dick York who played Darren on Bewitched!

[@btz2208]

ramosfamilia yes he landed Samantha and she was a hottie!!

[@Sparkina]

@@michaelalguire419 No, it doesn’t LOOK LIKE him. It IS him

[@douglaso6428]

That's amazing to see Dick York from bewitched! His face and voice are unmistakable. He was really so sweet....

[@electrickery8301]

Can't tell you how much I can relate to this guy. I'm such a shy introvert who loves tinkering with radios as well!

[@philipinchina]

Dick York as a boy! Thank you for this!

[@catherinerosa-baker2937]

Listening and being helpful with people with common interests very nice advice

[@NatsuuTzyy]

I love these kinds of video, its more educational than other self improvements video on youtube

[@josephlucatorto4772]

I wish that many people at my school were into sound equipment

[@Shogun-qs6sv]

I’m 69 and have fought with shyness my whole life. Luckily I’m tall and good looking and my grandfather taught me how to dress good. So most dates I got they asked me out. But I still lose out socially with others as I’m so serious as I take people literally and I don’t know how to react with super charged people unless they are my friends. Recently I did a job for this woman. This other woman got the credit as she knew how to go behind my back and talk to the woman that asked me to do this artwork. Politeness might seem fine at first but it doesn’t help in the long run. Socialy aggressive wins many times as they have no boundaries.

[@julienielsen3746]

I wish they had shown us films like this back in the 60s and 70s in school. I needed some help. But, no one in school or at home helped me to learn how to socialize. I wasn't comfortable talking to people until I got a friend who liked to talk a lot. I learned how to have conversations with her. Not that I'm really out going. But, I can talk to people and start conversations easier than I used to.

[@zermanman9891]

Same idk if I’m good looking or not though

[@peterbaird5312]

They wore the biggest pants ever! What a contrast to today's skinny jeans

[@LadyCoyKoi]

Shoot todays' skinny jeans are actually quite big compare to the 1970s and men back then... well lets say the porn industry boomed big time during the 1970s. ;)

[@LadyCoyKoi]

That explains why black men gotta wear the biggest, baggieiest pants ever. LOL Sorry *blushes* Your comment made me think aloud. ^_^~

[@adawila3862]

news flash, big pants are coming back

[@greggi47]

Take look at photos of the Twenties and Thirties, and Google Oxford Bags.

[@kilo393]

Doesn't compare to the baggy pants in the 90s.

[@arbitrarylib]

shy guys are the cutest guys.

[@JayJay-nc7pr]

Hard to think that these 1940s teens will become parents to 1960s hippies, I love the 40s my favourite decade

[@mollflanders9314]

Truth!

[@BabyBugBug]

My favorite era was 1930-1955. Class. Not perfect, society as we know had many problems. But they had standards and class and there was a general optimism towards the future. We have none of that now.

[@DanielLiebert-i1p]

Many guys worked hard in CCC camp barracks to send a little money home in the depression, then straight into WWII army barracks and after the war got married and lived in absolutely TINY government trailers as they got educated on the G.I. loan. Then when they could afford a little suburban tract home in the 50's and their kids became hippies and radicals.

[@jockjammer3443]

I adore the part in the beginning when he stands next to that store front and the DRUGS sign is so obvious. great video!

[@julienielsen3746]

Back then that's what drugs were. Prescription and non prescription drugs. Not illegal drugs. Unless you were one of the few involved with that.

[@aduantas]

drug use isn't new

[@ThePHYL]

I told my granddaughter when she was 7 or 8 yrs old....I told her when ever a new kid comes to your comes to your school you ask her to sit with you, be her friend....most of the kids in their school have known each other for years, nice to have gone to school together until graduation, it seems almost all the kids have gone to different colleges....good to make new friends

[@ontherowe4549]

What a cool dad.

[@abomarsyr103]

so relaxing to watch

[@DinoXaviz]

Wow this actually helps in modern age too, just apply more relevant conversations & you meet people

[@louio]

Even in 2023 it's still relevant you just got to update the topics

[@farinshore8900]

So happy that Darwin overcame his shyness so early in his career.

[@jschmid]

4:01 shes popular with boys and girls.

[@mekelreen9869]

Joe S yup, girls who were only interested in boys was a problem. Girls were supposed to want to spend time with boys so the parents know she isn’t a lesbian, and likes spending time with girls so the parents know she isn’t sucking dick when she goes out on the weekend.

[@mekelreen9869]

NewWaveFreak 1989 difference of opinions, I believe it portrays that they did want them to like boys enough to want one but not so much that she couldn’t wait for marriage.

[@krazyoldkatlady192]

Joe S 😂

[@markhenley3097]

It works the same for both genders, but more for girls. Since most boys will have other boys as friends, and vice versus.

[@maxalaintwo3578]

Maaaaaaaaaan I hate you lmao

[@Pyrotechn1cs]

The world would be a better place if we still watched these

[@Apollobudbud]

So the teenager is Dick York, who was famous for playing Darrin Stevens on the 1960's TV show "Bewitched" and he was only 19 in this film. I watched this in my English class and I was the only one who picked up that it was Darrin!

[@ericwitt4359]

I will say one thing, the mixer they show in the movie with the people talking with eachother and playing music looks so much more fun than a party of Gen Z people playing loud music and taking videos of themselves.

[@deckchairlin7436]

Well, it seems that being polite and listening to others gets you the exact opposite of popularity these days.

[@jeandrephilip3738]

Jip

[@tereasdownes9793]

I can relate to that young chap I cannot be in situations were i gotta interact with people

[@deckchairlin7436]

Gary W bruh 16 year old was wilding out. I was such a fucking callous asshole when I made this comment, thought I was better than everyone else and deserved to be treated as such. Thank god I got over that shit I’m cringing looking back at this right now.

[@Targoon_Music]

i can't fathom how well dressed and well spoken people were back in the days. and it's just not like this in certain countries but it was all around the world. also a very good video i might really use some of it's advices in my life

[@sirllamaiii9708]

Well a lot of casual wear just didn't exist. Tshirts just weren't a thing, jeans were for only farmers. Well dressed was just dressed.

[@sirllamaiii9708]

@SanctusPaulus-ic5gl Yeah that's what I mean. Like people didn't wear casual wear, only the traditional formal wear

[@julienielsen3746]

@@sirllamaiii9708 T-shirts were underwear.

[@Palosiam124]

Who do I have to kill to go back to these days

[@sirllamaiii9708]

@@Palosiam124 You can start dressing like that, nobody can stop you

[@veedub447]

Dick York didn't want to take Mary Lou to the dance , he wanted to take Steve.

[@lb-hu8si]

You mean Dick Sargent. The Dick in this video was straight. lol.

[@dalehoward8352]

veedub447. I think you're thinking about Dick Sergeant, the 2nd Darren Stevens.

[@matthewlane518]

I think what the father meant was not to pretend to like the same things or try to be like the popular kids, i think it was more of see what you have in common with them so you have an opening to approach the people your interested in meeting, dont fake interets or try to be someone you arent

[@victorstriga]

The advantage of being shy is having cool skills & hobbies. If the protagonist wasn't shy in the first place, he might've not been so good at repairing radios n stuff 😅

[@ayyepistemology]

Started watching one of these, now I can't stop!

[@marquezroxio]

Dick York is so handsome. But he is acting like George McFly

[@nowthatsjustducky]

At first I thought he looked exactly like a young George McFly.

[@XOPOIIIO]

He got this cool fashionable sweater. Now we're talking.

[@redwingfan9393]

Endora has sent Durwood back to a 40s high school.

[@oledocfarmer]

That gingerfied succubus outdid herself on this one!