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Law and Social Controls is a black and white instruction film, published in 1949 by Coronet Instructional Films. The film is one of many such films made for teenagers of the post-war, Cold War, era. This film encourages youth to conform to the norms…

In "A Date With Your Family," (Simmel-Meservey, 1950) the "ideal" American family has a hard-working father, home-making mother and siblings who run straight home after school to do their chores and hang out with their parents. Traditional gender…

The Responsibilities of American Citizenship was one in a series of films by Drs. George Benson and Clifton Ganus made during the mid-1950's. The film's goal was to educate young people on the duties and responsibilities of American citizenship, and…

Juvenile delinquency in the 1950's was seen as a huge crisis post-WWII and during the Cold War. Teenagers in those years had more leisure time than ever before. The efforts to create the ideal teenage citizen pushed educational boundaries by…