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…
Larry and Sue are your average American teenagers. After a mere three months of going steady, they are smitten with each other and intend on marrying after high school. In this era of post-war economic prosperity and stability, the youth seemed to…
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…
This is a review of the educational film "Freedom to Learn" which describes the film, the questions of academic freedom it addresses, and how to get a copy of the film.