" THE TEENS " 1957 TEENAGER & EARLY ADULTHOOD BEHAVIOUR SOCIAL GUIDANCE FILM XD52454

[@mazelme]

2:50 "...adequately good looking". That cracked me up for some reason.

[@foxotcw30]

Over the years I've found these '50s films about how 'normal' family life should work to be increasingly appealing.

[@icecreamforcrowhurst]

I was expecting pulp hysteria about juvenile delinquency and instead was treated to a practical, thoughtful, and even touching production about some of the day to day challenges most family units must navigate. All set to an awesome soundtrack!

[@deandupont5503]

It feels so unnatural to watch this without the silhouettes of of two robots and some dude at the bottom right of the screen.

[@grimtea1715]

MST3K might be the most underrated show!

[@joelhoffman7490]

WE HAVE MOVIE SIGN ....

[@pdxoneway]

Ahh, back when everything made sense

[@icecreamforcrowhurst]

I think what you mean to say is ‘back when people were more sensible’.

[@glennaa11]

"adequately good looking" !!!

[@MicheleBohmke]

And Dad is "fond of his family."

[@bloqk16]

Mrs. O'Connor [mother] has that classic look of what a middle-class [US] suburban mom looked like in the 1950s . . . very similar to my own Mom during those years.

[@tommygrubbs2053]

This made me realize all the things I had missing from my childhood and why I’m so weird and maladjusted 😂😂😂😢

[@valdez57700]

Blessed era, thanks for sharing !!!

[@pelonehedd7631]

Joan is 15 and “ adequately” good looking? She is absolutely fantastic , looks Like My Wife did at that age and puts many Girls that age today to shame. I was born the Year this was filmed My Wife was borne when I was 14. I worry about what kinds of girlfriends My Grandson’s will have or Boyfriends My teenage daughter’s have. Most of the kids in the San Francisco Bay Area look like they got tangled in a fishing net , hung on a trout line or are part of a Gay parade. They and many educated adults 15-20 years or more My junior’s have uptalking metro gay mannerism’s and speech.

[@pennypay1]

Joan is lovely. I liked her friends, too, wearing their pretty scarves and graceful skirts. I was a teen in the 80's; at that time being well-groomed was still relatively important to most of the girls in my junior high and high school. Sure there were New Wavers and goths and other subcultures, but a good deal of thought was given to the outfits and accessories. We wouldn't have been caught dead in public in pajamas or shoddy-looking hoodies and old sweatpants just for the sake of 'being comfortable'. Somewhere along the line people got so apathetic about dressing. And such widespread gender-bending is way too widespread now, and frankly off-putting.

[@kokonut1350]

1:21 is absolutely true and I still eat alot at age 19, heheh

[@marstondavis]

When mom took off that heavy coat, I thought she should be wearing a full dominatrix outfit underneath. You know, something to please the neighborhood boys...keep their blood flowing on those cold winter days.

[@joelhoffman7490]

come on now you know perfectly well thats only for the dungeon in the basement

[@jfchonors8873]

There was only about a foot of snow on the ground in this Canadian town - must have been May or June

[@MrNurserob]

It’s nice to watch. Better than now when kids swear at their parents while [incredibly rudely] calling them by their first names and everyone isolating with their phone and ignoring each other.

[@beefbruno7505]

Who else thought tim was gonna make crack.

[@douglasallman1039]

Or blow the house up.

[@HardRockMaster7577]

Tim's Grandpa showed him how they made hooch to sell to the Americans back during Prohibition.

[@AlejoMX5]

I don’t k le but those boy definitely compared penis sizes at some point. Tim’s friend is slow. At least they didn’t call him the mentally retarded.

[@friendofdorothy9376]

I cringed when those boots were plopped on the kitchen countertop.

[@Erik_Swiger]

"She really isn't crazy about Peter..." We understand, honey, we understand.

[@sherryhannah9262]

I hope y’all will reply to this in 1957 my mama named Miss Hazel graduated from high school

[@mattpierre891]

Bill O'Connor doesn't seem like he's very "fond" of his children. Probably hungover from those three-martini lunches.

[@HardRockMaster7577]

Bill grew up in a home with a distant father, who believed children should be seen, but not heard.

[@Ctrl-XYZ]

Alternate title: “Overcoats for Everyone!”

[@glennaa11]

It is Canada

[@561ram]

"Adequately good looking".....😆😆😆

[@flyingo]

So, Joan is “adequately good looking”.. nice that there’s no judgement going on.. 🙄. Nothing about the boys’ looks was mentioned at all. Just wait until they try the devil’s lettuce and shrooms.. a much different film would result.

[@poetcomic1]

The quality Swedish ski boots the boy wanted would probably cost more now than dad's down payment on the house.

[@bonniegaither3994]

An 18 year old dating a 15 year old…and no one batted an eye. 🤔

[@theshadowsovereign8914]

I envy the way they used to dress back then. Clean and dignified. No School Uniforms needed when everyone is dressed as their best. What you see today... is TRASH. Disgusting haircuts, clothing that reveals 75% of your body, ripped/torn clothing, tattoos, piercings, social media that promotes degenerate behavior, etc. We are certainly de-evolving at an alarming rate.

[@12time12]

If you think there wasn’t degenerate behavior back then, I have a base on the moon to sell you. For as long as humans have existed, so have those who refuse to conform.

[@Sashazur]

Keep in mind that these are mostly actors. Of course they’re going to look good and dress nicely. And old folks have always thought that the younger generation is taking society to hell in a handbasket. There are examples of complaints like yours going back thousands of years! Considering all that, it’s frankly amazing we still wear clothes at all and mostly still refrain from fornicating in public.

[@joelhoffman7490]

nobody wears a loin cloth properly anymore Kids today dont want to help hunt wolly mammoths anymore .The good ol days were so much more dignified

[@theshadowsovereign8914]

@@12time12 I am fully aware.

[@theshadowsovereign8914]

@@Sashazur I will keep that in mind.

[@scratchdog2216]

lol 2:50 Adequately good looking. This film is great.

[@hbailey1180]

She's not gonna be FAST Freddy's steady anymore! That's smooth!

[@elderlypoodle9181]

I see nothing wrong with cutting into that pie 👍

[@blondequijote]

I'd cut into that mom's pie. Then I'd go down in the basement with some jazz cigarettes and put on a record.

[@elderlypoodle9181]

@@Cutter-jx3xj OH!… 😁

[@coldsamon]

​@@Cutter-jx3xj😂

[@erin19030]

Good ole ozzie and Hamiscka at home on a Sa. Nite.

[@kirahastings9900]

I wonder why it never occurred to anyone back then to get a tote or book bag instead of carrying stacks of binders and books in their arms. I used to ride the buses with a full arm trying to hold onto the pole at the same time.

[@blondequijote]

A bag specifically for books? It's a racket!! Carry your books tied with a leather strap. Your books are secure and you can swing them at bullies.

[@Sashazur]

And suitcases didn’t have wheels until the 80s! Of course 50 years before then, there weren’t even suitcases, there were trunks.

[@foxotcw30]

A stack of books invites boys to offer to carry them for you.

[@trainer1158]

There were book bags back then. Not everyone use them.

[@missanne2908]

@@trainer1158 No one used them in my junior/senior high school.

[@SsHartman]

Putting the ski boots on the kitchen counter?? And mom is cooking dinner! So unsanitary and disrespectful. Yet dad says nothing about it. And Barry looks 35.

[@bonniegaither3994]

“The school ski team”. Wow, ok!?!

[@babymoondancer]

*SUBDIVISIONS!* 🎵In the high school halls! In the shopping malls! Conform or be cast oooouuut!🎵 (*snort* Y'know, since it's Canada.)

[@BblastedD]

Adequately Good Looking!l lol

[@lightdark00]

Was a very accurate way to describe her. 🤷‍♂️

[@marmaly]

What a great term!

[@HardRockMaster7577]

Prairie Home Companion Radio show set in Minnesota (almost Canada!!) with "News from Lake Wobegon" ... "the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve ... where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average". 🙂

[@blockcl]

@ 19:27 looks like Perini Scleroso.

[@johndavid9814]

"one wonders if they wouldnt do a better job than their elders are doing" fastforward to 2023

[@EricMcDowellegm]

Poor mother looks miserable. Dying to get out of a marriage that is sucking the life out of her.

[@deepbludude4697]

yep ive seen that look...

[@369Alien]

She was in the wrong era. Nowadays she’d be able to with no problems & be able to take the kids & half of the husband’s earnings on her way out

[@gilianrampart8514]

You sound like a dum person!😮

[@paulradice3534]

Sorry you’re so miserable in your own life

[@sugarplum5824]

​@@369Alien Trust me when I say that wives DO NOT walk away with half the husband's earnings nowadays.

[@UBDOOMBOT]

internet Zoomers would go crazy if they seen this Lol

[@Joe-mz6dc]

And then along came Jimi Hendrix. 🎸 😎

[@HardRockMaster7577]

Then, in 1957 they discovered Buddy Holly, Bill Haley, and Chuck Berry.

[@jameswillett7186]

I did not look at the description nor the comments for a while and just assumed this was American.

[@jamesparker4471]

You don't see Mother sneaking vodka shots and popping some Valium.

[@elderlypoodle9181]

But they did!

[@HardRockMaster7577]

Mother's Little Helper...

[@akshonclip]

No social media, cell phones, MSM, or pink haired freaks. Edit: changed blue to pink since there seems to be confusion on what individual type I was referring to. 😂

[@perrybarton]

Oh, there were blue-hairs. There just wasn’t a place for the grandparents in this particular film…

[@pdxoneway]

Yeah, the good old days. When everything made sense.

[@sugarplum5824]

​@@perrybartonAward given for comment of the week! 🏆

[@joelhoffman7490]

he said on social media

[@davechristian7543]

1:38 come on my friend as that looks more like his grandmother. ps. his sister looks more like his mother.

[@perrybarton]

Barry slightly resembles a young Joe Strummer from The Clash.

[@danorthsidemang3834]

Joan the Hoo-er. Way to go Mom and Dad eh.

[@Thomas-ky3rl]

Tim is 82 maybe 85 because he looks older than they say he is. Providing he is still alive because a lot of men die from heart attacks in their 40s and 50s. My cousin died last summer in his 40s. lol I know Tim is a fictional character but I still wish him the best. HEHE

[@erin19030]

We all,didn’t die. I survived my heart attack and am still here , turning 80 soon.

[@poetcomic1]

At 12:50 what JERKS boys are at 15 or so. I remember because I was one.

[@ManInTheBigHat]

Joan is adequately good looking. Mom's initially not so sure about this date of her. Jazz, indeed.

[@tomservo56954]

These are Canadian teens....

[@HardRockMaster7577]

Eh?

[@ManInTheBigHat]

Consider present day Canada, a tragedy after what it might have been back in the 1950s.

[@teachgold]

Canada was a few years behind US, especially US industry after the war. The fact Canadian kids listened to jazz was not normal this was Elvis 'all shook up'. Canadian kids would not trade Elvis for their dad's 40's jazz years. An interesting look back when you look around today. Which was better?

[@bcbock]

Well, we heard jazz because they couldn’t play Elvis without paying royalties.

[@cmiller415]

Did that kid really leave the kitchen with pie all over his face like a 3 year old?

[@idiotwind2248]

This is the conformity that kids rebelled from. Starting the Kerouac " On the Road" Beats.. & yrs later into the counterculture. Kids began to see the inequality in race & class. The times they were a changin" -- forever.

[@420boxysama]

Oh how beautiful white sububia was in the 50s

[@davechristian7543]

Im guess they brought theses out in the states to let the parents no how to handle n manage then n wat type of person they should be making n molding them into so basically in short the word im looking for is #Propaganda. PMSL 'But dont get my wrong 'cheers for uploading them from sydney nsw.

[@AlejoMX5]

How times change. Now they start going “steady” at around 12. And how dare a friend takes your boy friend. There could be a school shooting! I have two daughters and I can’t imagine any boy being the right one for them. Knowing what I went thru as a teenage boy, I’m preparing to learn about sex from her. Just yesterday she just asked if me and her mom were having sex. Holy cow. I almost died. However, it shows me she feels comfortable talking about it and that makes me feel a bit better than she will make the right choices. Sigh. To be young!

[@manhoot]

Easily mannered? As opposed to uneasily mannered? And she wants to go with a trombone player who is "smooth"? The shame of it.

[@shayneshuckhart5302]

💞 P r o m o S M

[@godscountry6473]

Ah...what I would seriously give to have lived in America at that time.

[@castlebound2010]

Wish granted but you will appear as 'African- American' or 'Chicano'... You now have two wishes left !