Coronet Teenager Social Guidance Classic 1947-51 Films Volume 3 DVD

Description: Please read & note: This is a Rights holding DVD created & produced by me and is not factory made or sealed. I strive to produce the best DVD's possible from the sometimes VERY old Public Domain material. Films that are public domain are unpreserved and not professionally re-mastered. I re-master all of my films myself to the best possible quality achievable. My DVDs are not the quality of todays Modern DVDs or Bluray discs. If you are looking for this kind of quality then these discs are not for you. All pictures are actual screen captures from the DVDs. Please note this when purchasing, but also know that all of the films are very watchable. To keep my prices as low as possible all my DVDs are delivered in plain paper DVD sleeves and the DVDs title will be labeled on the back of the DVD envelope. This way you can write the contents of the DVD on the DVD yourself if you want to. (See picture). All of my DVD's come with a menu for easy film selection. 　 Total runtime of this DVD is 146 minutes. Item specifics are: 14 CORONET INSTRUCTIONAL / SOCIAL GUIDANCE FILMS ON DVD VOLUME 3 　 Film 1: "Friendship Begins At Home" (1949) B&W Runtime 15 minutes In what clearly holds the record in the coronet curse of "Listening to the voices in your head telling you what to do" Barry, a teenaged boy, decides not to join his family on vacation, deciding that he wants to hang around the house and with friends.( "I declare!" says his Mom) But as soon as he leaves, his inner voice starts up, and just doesn't let up by telling him what to do, what's wrong and so forth. Pretty soon, Barry (and us) are depressed about his surroundings, and lack of things to do. (we're depressed because we clearly feel Barry is one big loser). After a while of listening to the voices, Barry ultimately winds up WAXING THE FLOOR WITH HIS BARE HANDS. Soon, thankfully, Barry's family returns. 　 Film 2: "Who Are the People of America?" (1953) B&W Runtime 10 minutes Explains how the United States came to be a diversely populated nation. 　 Film 3: Appreciating Our Parents (1950) Color Runtime 13 minutes Tommy is a disgruntled, slovenly child earning a whopping .25 per week, and his mother gets a whole 1.00 . Dad is an electrician who works in coveralls, but wears a shirt & tie around the house? But why not wear a tuxedo? Tommy decides he'll help his father paint chairs red and get .50 per week. Try pitching this idea to NBC. LESSON: Don't leave your dirty socks on the radiator. 　 Film 4: "Beginning Responsibility: Taking Care of Things" (1951) B&W Runtime 9 minutes This film, since it's made by Coronet, means that simple things are solved by doing stupid things. In this case Andy, who has the shoddiest looking 'bedroom' ever seen in a guidance film, just can't stop being a slob. Toys are left lying around, stuff is broken, and what's more, his tadpoles.. well, let the female narrator say it.. "Aw, they're dead!" She says it in a way like 'Who gives a darn" when dying pets are actually quite traumatizing to kids. (The site of dead tadpoles are sure to traumatize kids WATCHING this film too). Anyways Andy realizes the secret of CLEANING UP after himself, and soon he's like the most popular guy around. With his parents, his teacher, his friends. One again, conformity does wonders for your social skills! 　 Film 5: "What Makes A Good Party?" (1950) B&W Runtime 10 minutes You think you've seen Squares ville teens before? Well, mister, sit down and watch this little flick, with a group of young people so squeaky-clean they make Ivory soap look like an oil slick. Unbelievably camp as three hot-to-trot girls plan a party for a boy from college. Directions from the cheery faced yet utterly dominant narrator tell you to make sure that you participate in the Hive Mind at parties. At one point, two people step to the side to talk to each other--a fatal mistake! Herd them back into the Group because it's time for a hat party! And what kind of swinging party doesn't end with a stirring rendition of Jimmy Crack Corn (complete with a faux-minstrel-show baritone singing about his "Massa?"). So amazingly innocent you just won't believe it. 　 Film 6: "Let's Share With Others" (1950) B&W Runtime 10 minutes Jimmy, who seems to be very spoiled and coddled, decides to make a lemonade stand from the neat box his grandfather gave him (it was filled with books and magazines, but who cares about that). He gets his Mom to make some lemonade, and soon he's in business, 3 cents a cup! His friends wants in on the business venture as well, but Jimmy wants it all for himself. Soon, Jimmy runs out of glasses, (he only brought out 2.. anticipating a slow day Jim?) AND his mother wants him to weed the garden. Soon Jimmy realizes a use for his 'friends' as they help with lemonade stand, get some more lemonade going AND help him with the weeding! BOY! That Jimmy is a shrewd one! 　 Film 7: "Writing Better Social Letters" (1950)" B&W Runtime 10 minutes After some very odd classical music that is totally inappropriate for the movie, "Writing Better Social Letters" cranks up the emotional intensity by presenting us with Nora, a girl who is stuck on writing a letter to her Aunt and Uncle for the lovely time they had over at the farm. Brother Wally helps her out by pointing out some actually great tips on writing such a thing. He pulls out different types of letters, from his formal invite to a "George Washington Ball" to letters he got when contracted pneumonia, to the inevitable invite to a "little" April Fool’s party (was the invitation a joke?). After plenty of examples, she throws away the torn-out-paper-from-her-notebook letter she was writing and whips up a solid letter to her Aunt and (overalled of course) uncle to enjoy! I liked this film, as other reviewers have noted, this has a certain nostalgia about it, nowadays it’s all about terse emails.. Highly recommended! 　 Film 8: "Your Family" (1948) B&W Runtime 10 minutes A very cute, nostalgic film of how each family member brings purpose and harmony to their home. Show it to your young children! If you are a fan of Dick and Jane stories, then this film is for you, too. Can't you hear the whir of the projector as the narrator pauses? 　 Film 9: "Developing Self-Reliance"(1951) B&W Runtime 10 minutes This Coronet film stars Woody from Dating Dos and Don’ts, though it’s not nearly as campy as the other film. Now that he’s got dating under control, his next problem is being to dependent on others, so a teacher gives him a set of simple steps to self-reliance, and soon Woody is so self-reliant he’s taking over whole projects at the Student Council. Of course, the adults responsible for this film didn’t really want teens to "make their own decisions," or rather, they only wanted them to make their own decisions of their decisions were ones the adults would have made for them. Still, this film is not quite as farfetched as the usual Coronet outing. 　 Film 10: "Your Thrift Habits" (1948) B&W Runtime 10 minutes Fun film that tells about how you could budget yourself to get all the things that you really want. Jack really marvels at Ralph’s new camera, and wished HIS Dad would buy him one, since it’s so ‘swell’. Ralph says that his Dad didn’t buy it, he did! Jack marvels at this, and wonders how he could have pulled off such a thing. Ralph explains that he made a budget and graph to help him lead the way, Unfortunately Jack has to be told what a graph is. Once that’s out of the way, Jack thinks this is a swell idea and starts saving for his own camera! He looks at his parent’s budget, and plans it out very similarly. After taking out expenses out of what he makes from his job and allowance (2 bucks!) he realizes he can save 3 bucks a week for 30 weeks! Woo hooo! All this is swell until some road blocks appear, like the school mixer and his pen breaking! Oh no! What will he do?? 　 Film 11: "Shy Guy" (1947) B&W Runtime 13 minutes Another strange Dick York Film.. Man, I am not too sure how, but he made the best! Dick York is Shy Guy! He's having trouble meeting kids at school, he'd rather play around with his electronics. His dad comes downstairs, having apparently left his mob meeting or singing at the copa, because he's impossibly overdressed here, to try to get Shy guy out of his shell! Wear more sweaters! Seek out the popular folk! Eavesdrop on people's conversations! Soon Dick is doing that, and well, he's the hit of the School Mixer! Heck that would be easy if all there was were apples and people singing 'Oh Susannah". Amelia Moment: Check out where the lockers are. What in the world? Anyways, a MUST SEE!! 　 Film 12: "Attitudes and Health" (1949) B&W Runtime 10 minutes Marvin didn't make the first team in his high school basketball team. Why? H eas worrying too much about not making the team, which of course showed and therefore cost him the chance. This I understand, what makes this film so over the top is the doctor's astonishing claim that over half the cases he sees would have helped if they just have a better attitude!!! Have cancer? You need a better attitude! Got Pneumonia? Too bad you didn't have a positive attitude! 　 Film 13: "Right or Wrong? (Making Moral Decisions)" (1951) B&W Runtime 10 minutes Teenaged Harry goes out on a window-breaking spree with a tough gang. Although he doesn't break any windows himself, he is seen by the night watchman and turned in to the police. The police investigator tries to get Harry to tell who else is in the gang, but Harry refuses to squeal on his friends. The investigator knows that Harry is a good-natured kid and so tries to convince the warehouse owner to simply accept payment for the windows without prosecuting Harry. But the warehouse owner is sick and tired of all this vandalism––he wants the investigator to "get tough" with Harry and "make him talk" so that his gang can be broken up. The investigator tries one more time to reason with Harry and when that doesn't work he decides not to get tough, fearing that this will just make Harry hate the police and drive him in to further delinquent activities. A man from Harry's church picks him up at the police station and takes him to his house to wait for Harry's father to get home from his graveyard-shift job. This guy also tries to get Harry to talk, but no dice. Everybody's thoughts are verbalized in the film, and it ends unresolved, instructing the viewers to make their own decisions for each of the film's characters. This is an unusual Coronet film. It's rare for Coronet to end a film unresolved and the ghetto setting of the film and its dark mood are also unusual. 　 Film 14: "What to Do on a Date" (1950) B&W Runtime 10 minutes Now, honestly, how many teenagers do you know who don't know what to do on a date? Amazingly, they found one clueless enough for this film. Of course, what they're really hoping to do is convince teenagers that what you do on a date is lots of wholesome group activities at the local teen center. Our really dorky hero has to be cattle-prodded into asking the girl next door to go to a rummage sale with him, where much to his surprise he finds out that she likes weenie roasts and taffy pulls! And what a coincidence––those things are on the teen center schedule of upcoming wholesome events! It's hard to imagine that adolescence was ever this dorky. Great fun. 　 I claim ownership and rights to this media. All the films on this DVD have been researched and are copyright free or the copyrights have expired due to non renewal.

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