“ 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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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
11 ай бұрын
Well abortions were harder to come by, back then
@poetcomic1
9 ай бұрын
Classic. I have seen some funny CC mistakes but that is well up there.
@65gtotrips
2 ай бұрын
That’s sooo funny…yea well the AI butchered that one !
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.
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
2 ай бұрын
If she rejects you, report her for being a communist spy
Love Danny's bow tie.
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!! 😉
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.
A first date visit to a bookstore/cafe' for a bit is a great place to learn about each other.
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.
If only you could use this in modern times… 😢
@AuroraBoarder1
Жыл бұрын
Why not? Maybe we can set a trend!
An appropriate day (Valentine's Day) to upload this. :)
@lindathrall5133
Жыл бұрын
THAT'S A GOOD IDEA
@lilblackduc7312
Жыл бұрын
Timing is everything! 💖
@PeriscopeFilm
Жыл бұрын
@bobdobbs9096 glad you made the connection! We often schedule films of interest on "special" days. Next up -- April 1st stay tuned.
@bobdobbs9096
Жыл бұрын
@@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
Жыл бұрын
@@PeriscopeFilm for april fools day
It all makes sense now. Would like to see the whole series.
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!”
9:34 starts a second short from 1951 called "What To Do on a Date".
MY MOTHER PAID FIFTY CENTS FOR A HAMBURGER
@tomtbi
Жыл бұрын
Weren't those the days!!
@CowSaysMooMoo
Жыл бұрын
@@tomtbi That's equivelent to 5.60 today....nothings changed.
@drewconway7135
11 ай бұрын
OH MY GOD LET’S GO SCREAM ABOUT IT ON THE INTERNET
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
thanks for the infomation of the movie glad you like it happy valetines day!
When getting married really mean getting married Lol
My, how times have changed.
Great video for Valentine’s Day 😂
Alice and Danny sound more like a contract negotiation than a high school date.
Western civilization values at mid-20th century.
This was an amazing was! Times were more simple back in the day!
@lilblackduc7312
Жыл бұрын
People were more polite & decent to each other...Girls practiced modesty, something unheard of nowadays! 🇺🇸 😎👍☕
@gi70st
Жыл бұрын
@@lilblackduc7312 They also had cleaner rooms. Now we have girls taking selfies in front of piles of trash and laundry
@tomtbi
Жыл бұрын
You got that right . I think I was born about 20 years or so too late....
@Deathmastertx
Жыл бұрын
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
Жыл бұрын
@@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.
I have to wonder if there's a Tinder date etiquette video now.
@TrapperAaron
Жыл бұрын
There is a video on Tinder dating etiquette. I think it's called "No means NO!"
@gi70st
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, pay the ho when you're done
@commentatron
Жыл бұрын
No need, only one rule: don't sleep with your date before the first date.
@jacquelynsharp9354
2 ай бұрын
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😡😡😡😡🤡😡🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬😠🤡💩💩💩😺
All I have to say is "if ONLY..."
@AuroraBoarder1
Жыл бұрын
💯‼️. We could definitely use this today!
Gosh yes! Neat.
They had to go all in with the milk
Wow 😳 sixty five cents for a hamburger deluxe. Today your lucky to get away with twenty dollars.
@lightdark00
Жыл бұрын
Thanks to the federal reserve removing the value of our money. 💫
@jamesTBurke
Жыл бұрын
I pay 20 bucks just to feed myself
@BeingFireRetardant
Жыл бұрын
Came here for this, lol.
@AuroraBoarder1
Жыл бұрын
True, but what was minimum wage in those days?
@brianarbenz1329
Жыл бұрын
@@AuroraBoarder1 That's the part all these nostalgia buffs don't want to hear.
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
Жыл бұрын
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
2 ай бұрын
Remember, current society is what you women wanted.
Wow….to think datings just swipe right & a “you up?” Nowadays 😫😫😫😫
@jacquelynsharp9354
2 ай бұрын
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
2 ай бұрын
@@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. ☹️☹️☹️☹️
I can’t wait to see what Huggbees creates out of this!
Thing's used to be so simple
@calvinjackson8110
5 ай бұрын
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
2 ай бұрын
@@calvinjackson8110 Things are still simple; if the guy is a 7' tall jacked billionaire.
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
Жыл бұрын
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.
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.
20-year-old Carol Burnett
I can almost guarantee the teenagers back when this film came out were making fun of it even in the early 1950’s.
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
Жыл бұрын
$0.20 would buy a pack of 20 cigarettes and a Choo Choo Bar.
@roseary9198
Жыл бұрын
Bout 15¢ based on 15% tip
@seaofmadness2622
Жыл бұрын
Also my mom told me that giving one penny along with the tip meant that you got good service while you dined there
@drewconway7135
11 ай бұрын
@@roseary9198Closer to 20¢ once you add the two glasses of milk
Unintentional MST3K reference at 5:24
@jfiorello68
Жыл бұрын
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."
The tip he left was only a few coins!
Why do the girls look like they are old enough to be my grandmother?
@cynthiahintz1900
Жыл бұрын
I know what you mean ..... hair styles for one
@KenKurkowski
2 ай бұрын
@@cynthiahintz1900 Back then short styles were quite popular with young girls, not just with older women.
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
Danny can do better. Just sayin'.
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
Жыл бұрын
Wait till they find out Danny didn’t wear clean underwear!
@kevincurry4735
Жыл бұрын
😆😂🤣
@haroldlxxv9680
Жыл бұрын
lolz
@justinconroy5621
Жыл бұрын
really this might be a joke
@drewconway7135
11 ай бұрын
@@justinconroy5621You think?
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
11 ай бұрын
Milk isn’t great for you, either
I’m pretty sure that a weenie roast and taffy pull are code names for… other stuff. 😂
The audio really needed to be cleaned up. 😕
@peterparker9286
Жыл бұрын
All these videos are the real deal. Periscope does it that way to Honor the content and Plagiarism of theifs.
@PeriscopeFilm
Жыл бұрын
@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
Жыл бұрын
@@PeriscopeFilm I'm doubting the audio was in that shape originally.
@wmalden
Жыл бұрын
The audio sounded great to me.
The meal with drinks was $1.50, so he tipped the waitress a whopping .15 cents.
I just meet the girls at the bedroom window. I make sure the parents fast asleep.
Are those prices in dollar at the restaurant???
@warreneckels4945
Жыл бұрын
No, they are prices in cents. 100 cents = 1 dollar; 0.01 dollars = 1 cent.
@hiketas3565
Жыл бұрын
@@warreneckels4945 Thank you!
That was a fun video, thanks 👍
@PeriscopeFilm
Жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it
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
Жыл бұрын
They were VERY knowledgeable about sex. That's why they had a healthy respect for it.
Winnie roast must have been code for another activity back then I suppose.
Today we just clap our asses on Tinder. Much easier.
CONFORM
@jamestiscareno4387
Жыл бұрын
Conform ? Everyone should practice good manners. What's wrong with being a gentleman ? Why wouldn't you want to be well mannered ?
No kiss on the first date? Today, sex on a first date is the norm.
@williamv.v.3706
Жыл бұрын
I wish loll
@AuroraBoarder1
Жыл бұрын
Right. And look at the results!
@warreneckels4945
Жыл бұрын
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
Жыл бұрын
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.
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.
The bow tie. Making guys look like dweebs since forever. Danny is a bit slow...
Did Danny score? Nah, Danny’s a closeted homosexual.
@lightdark00
Жыл бұрын
Third date or later if he wanted to marry her.
@TrapperAaron
Жыл бұрын
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
Жыл бұрын
😂😂😂😂😂😂
@kevincurry4735
Жыл бұрын
😀😆😂🤣
@AuroraBoarder1
Жыл бұрын
I suppose producing a population of feral illegitimate brats is better than practicing self control and truly caring about your date.
Im55 fine wish i could go on a real date,minus all vulgarity and constant sex talk,jokes,innuendo
this doesn't feel realistic.
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.,
And now women have slept with 10 guys before their first date
@meganghost7206
Жыл бұрын
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
Жыл бұрын
@@meganghost7206 i hold myself to that standard. Only interested in serious relationships. Hookups for me is disgusting