It was used as a lip-reading practice video. Then there would be a test afterwards on things like what were their names? What color shoes did the girl want her mother to buy for her at the beginning? What kind of shoes did the salesman bring out for the little girl to try on? What size did she think she was, and what size did the salesman measure her feet to be? Which ones did she actually try? How much were the shoes she tried on? How much were the shoes she ended up getting? What was the name of the girl who came in later in the movie? Why did she come in? Those types of questions would have been normal. It could have been a written test or quiz in lip-reading class, or it could have been oral, in order to reinforce the lip-reading they had just practiced. My mom used to teach Art classes at the Virginia State School for the Deaf and Blind in Hampton, Virginia in the 1970's. It was residential, with dormitories and a dining hall, and different buildings for different types of instruction. They had a vocational skills instruction department too, for mostly the Deaf students, like Cosmetology, which was a favorite for the Deaf girls, requiring excellent lip-reading skills; and Home Economics; they also had an Upholstery Shop; and for the blind students who had good musical skills, they had Piano Tuning. Also they had a Dry Cleaning and Commercial Laundry department, a Print Shop, and the favorite for the Deaf boys was Auto Shop! They had an auto mechanics section, as well as body shop. The thing most folks didn't understand was that you didn't have to be completely deaf, or stone blind to go there. Many were only partly so, but the public schools were not yet accommodating to such handicaps, nor were the medical or surgical treatments for them as advanced as they are now. No cochlear implants yet, for instance, or as many very successful surgical treatments for either the blind or deaf children. This was when I was in high school myself, and I spent time in my mom's Arts classroom when school was out for me but not for them. I got to be friends with quite a few of the students my age, and the instructors as well. I got my hair done several times there by the Instructor as a "hair model" and she always did a fantastic job; I got clothes dry cleaned, including my wedding gown after I got married the year after I graduated from high school; and had a car painted there too, which was done with all the same equipment as any other auto body shop. It was a beautiful job. They changed up their school population a few years later, moving all the Deaf students to the other school in Staunton, and all the blind students came to the school in Hampton. Art wasn't then something as easily taught to blind students as it was to the Deaf kids, so my mom got another job. By then I was living in Indiana with my ex-Air Force husband, whom I had met and married while he was stationed at the base near my home.
It is deliberately stiff, because it was designed for the hard of hearing. Contractions and more natural speech patterns would be harder to understand.)
I agree, about the bad acting. But it had me on the edge of my seat so I had to keep watching. Which shoes will Barbara get? Will her mother allow her to get the white shoes so she has the same ones as Mary??? And why does she want to dress like Mary anyway??? Duh Duh DUUUUHHHH :D
It says right in the credits: " this is a life situation film for speech and hearing training". The film is meant to be watched by hard of hearing kids back in the day. That's why they had the stilted dialogue and acting.
Annnnnd, so it teaches them how to lipread stilted speech apparently.My mother lost her hearing when she was thirty six, and the reality of the situation, is if you ever want to lipread properly, you know, from the general population, it's probably best you don't tell people you can't hear, because then people break into practically hysterics over-speaking and raising their voice, as though deafness suddenly disappears with raised voices, therefore throwing off any lipreading skills you may had acquired, because you trained off of people speaking in a normal fashion.
Even _before_ I opened up the comments section, I noticed that part. I'll admit though that until the comments mentioned the lip reading practice stuff, I kept thinking "What does _that_ (read = speech & hearing) have to do with buying shoes? Do any of the _shoes_ talk or listen?!"
Ontario Guy -Depends on when Barbara's birthday🎂 is. Right now it's the middle of July, 2018. If she's already had her birthday🎂, she'll be 72. If she hasn't had her birthday🎂 yet, she'll be 71. So, 2 years ago when you first answered this question, she could have been either 69 or 70, depending again on when her birthday🎂 actually happens to be. 🎉🎁🎊👞
I can remember having a girlfriend in school that was Marys size and she was bullied for her size. These days Mary would be considered a normal size and you would be bullied for being too skinny
yes!..i begged for months for go-go- boots because they were popular .. had them only one week and I wore them marching in a parade when it was raining and they fell apart... Mom was not amused... they cost $7 which was a lot in those days...
In those days ALL kids new shoes wound up giving you painful blisters on your heels by the end of the day. It was the one curse of growing up in those days. Well...that, ...and polio epidemics.
This a commentary on the racial injustices of the time. Amid mounting pressure the girl must choose. In the end she declares "oh mother I like these brown shoes!"
@@sharid76 These things never are meant to be entertaining, but more like indoctrination. They at least should have had a moral to the story, like you should have enough brain power to not go lockstep with whatever your fiend, I mean friend, or hypnotist, does. If Mary wanted a head transplant, Barbara would have wanted one too. The lesson that Mary can change her mind at any time, therefore rendering Barbara's choice null, was completely lost on Barbara. Little sycophants aren't too bright.
@@charles2241 - You've missed the entire purpose of the video/movie/show/lesson - whatever you want to call it. It has nought but the simplest message because the message isn't at all important, nor the purpose. Its meant to teach lip reading skills to hearing impaired people - likely children the same age as these. They can't do that with the best effect unless it actually makes some kind of sense, AND so that it uses the simplest, easiest words to teach with at first. Thats all it's about - no more, no less. My mother taught Art subjects to the deaf and severely hearing impaired students at a residential school for the Blind and Hearing Impaired - one of only two - in the State of Virginia for several years in the 1970's. I had ample contact with students and teachers alike, since I was in high school at the time, lived only with her, and could drive. We did not live there, of course, and my contact was strictly social. More than that would take much too long a time, and too much space to explain further.
@@sharid76 Actually, I know a great deal more about the subject of deafness than you would expect, which was in some other comment I believe I laid out here. Regardless of anything, the comment at this portion of the general video commentary, by me, was meant for basically a humorous purpose. BTW, I do find this notion of attempting lipreading as rather poor here, seeing as how a deaf person should be trained on how people REALLY speak, not as robots do, or at least that's what the Collier place had told my mother way back in '71. Back in '55, I don't know if they thought training via some robot method was actually better or not, but Collier didn't think so over a decade later. Thanks.
The acting in this one is some of the best I have EVER SEEN! I mean, I wanted to run out and get the brown shoes, they really sold me! Academy award ACTING by all if I do say so myself!
As a child going to the shoe store was like going to the Drs office for a yearly physical. I sat in those same type chairs, and had the same shoe service! This whole scenery is a replica of my school shoe days.
NOPE , Got y'all beat ...for a few years when I was about 7 to 10 I had to wear corrective shoes !!! This was the 60s and the were the ugliest things ever
Hell ya. I would've said I ain't taking your shit anymore Barbra! Then I would have said. Be a god dam individual for once in your life! I don't know about you but I'm teaching my kids to be great individuals and to be there selves around people. That might depend on certain situations.
Rod serling: " meet Barbara, a charismatic little girl who desires shoes that compliment that trait. For your standard shoe, Barbara would fit what most would refer to as a size 6 to about 6 and a half, perhaps teetering on a 7, but this particular pair of shoes that this mysterious salesman has placed onto her feet are a one size fits all, whether you're a little girl named barbara, an adult ballet dancer with flatfoot, or a lumberjack in thick boots, this pair of shoes will fit you quite snuggly. Now you as the viewer will try on this new shoe with Barbara and proceed to walk with her as she wanders into... The Twlight Zone!"
Vertical Horizon - Did you pay for all your shoes and clothes when you were 9 years old? And were you never consulted about what you wanted to wear, or not wear? I didn't pay for my stuff - nobody does at that age of course - but I got to express preferences on what things I liked better. Mostly because if I didn't like them, because I thought they made me look like some kind of a goof, they stayed in the closet. No sense in spending money on something that's never going to get worn. But it's interesting 🤔 how those brown shoes,👞 which she claimed to "hurt her feet" at first, suddenly became beautiful and fit perfectly 👍 after the other little girl returned HER white shoes because the other ones she had were "better for school."
Shari D57 I think she was just joking around. Her comment was meant to be funny. When I read her comment I laughed out loud... I don't think she was being completely serious. I'm sure she allows her children to have a say in what they wear.
Oh how I Love this..the Young school Girl very politely saying "Mother" and Not "Mommy" and being very obedient and listening to her Mother,s advice..😊😅
I noticed how the beginning credits mentioned the hearing impaired. This explains why each word is spoken so exactly. This is obviously a film intended for those learning how to read lips. Thanks for sharing.
ffff - how do you know she did? Its possible to hand someone several coins at once - for instance, a dime and a nickel, then four pennies = $0.19. Or, she could have just given him two dimes- that's simple enough to do, and makes $0.20, close enough for current purposes. And since this movie involves helping the hearing impaired practice lipreading, rather than entertainment, maybe that part wasn't considered so important at the time.
This was made to help teach deaf people to lip read. So, yes the pronunciations are a little stilted and deliberate. It wasn't intended to serve up Academy Award winning fare.
Emily Fries - In 1955, $6.00 had the same buying power as $56.63 does today. Based on inflation. data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=6.00&year1=195501&year2=201806 Sounds weird, yes. But true.
When I was a child my mom took me to the shoe store to buy a pair of keds, it was early 60's and you got a magic decoder whistle with every purchase and the man went into the back room to get the decoder whistle and I watched him and as my mom was paying at the front counter I snuck into the back room and stuffed my pockets with decoder whistles. I then passed them out to my neighborhood friends and the neighborhood was sooo noisy from all the whistles haha
Oh so now the brown shoes don't hurt since Mary has brown ones. Come on gal, don't be a follower! I would've gotten the black strapped ones to be different.
Yes, a good rebellious choice for that immediate situation, but while I can't speak for girls, there was no color that spoke conformity than black shoes for boys. So bad choice in terms of trying to be rebellious. I mean when a shoe shop only has three colors, what's a girl to do? For utter rebellion Barbara should had insisted they go to McDonald's instead, where despite it being an ultimate place for conformity, there would be a small chance she could had scored clown shoes with a happy meal.
+DanceDanceDance5678 Are you telling me you see no difference between a pair of sand colored, steel toed, caterpillar boots and a pair of piano black stiletto heels?
+Daniel Calzada +5 appreciation points to your comment. The Luciferian social engineers are beginning to outlaw gender to make everyone androgynous. Fooey on that!
The classic saddle oxfords she wore into the store were probably just too small or worn. She'd be better off sizing up to a 5 1/2 than going with the brown.
The power of admiration is shown in imitation. That's the principle used in creating idols in Hollywood for people to emulate. This is a big way the culture has been changed, through emulation.
Buying shoes was a major ordeal when I was that age because I had inherited my mother's very narrow feet and comfortable shoes were almost impossible to find. I always ended up with terrible blisters from the heels rubbing because nothing was narrow enough to fit properly. I always had to go with my mother because my father always lost his temper.
Times have changed a lot! Today when you go to a shoe store, the sales person doesn't even serve you at all. You're on your own as you reach for different pairs while they stand behind the cash! They do fuck all for you while they check their phones! These short plays show times when people had moral values and quality service was first!
Oh those halcyon days when your parent said which pair of sneakers/hat/jacket do you want - red or blue? You anwered "red", to which they proceeded to buy the blue one. 😅
The dreaded saddle shoes. My mother had my father take me shoe shopping. I came home with shiny patent leather shoes with a bow on top. Mom was annoyed but let me keep the shoes ( not very comfortable) . Biggest thrill getting penny loafers and the sales person putting a bright new penny in them.
I was 6 years old in 1969 and my mother bought me a pair of saddle shoes for school. I think they were almost out of style by then, and I (and one other girl at school who had them) got teased by some of the kids for wearing them.
Lucky Barbara... from age 7 to 10 my age DID match my shoe size, and I was dying for some grownup to tell me to act my age not my shoe size so I could make a wiseass comment, but they never did. All I ended up with is Godzilla feet.
OMG...it reminds me of when I had to wear oxfords because some guy convinced my mother they would straighten out my feet..there was nothing wrong with my feet but I had to clomp around in them..the only good thing about them was when the boys teased me ,I could give them one heck of a kick with my oxfords.
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This is proof that I will watch absolutely anything.
I watched it twice
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Jesus Christ
✅😂🤣🤣
😂
It was used as a lip-reading practice video. Then there would be a test afterwards on things like what were their names? What color shoes did the girl want her mother to buy for her at the beginning? What kind of shoes did the salesman bring out for the little girl to try on? What size did she think she was, and what size did the salesman measure her feet to be? Which ones did she actually try? How much were the shoes she tried on? How much were the shoes she ended up getting? What was the name of the girl who came in later in the movie? Why did she come in?
Those types of questions would have been normal. It could have been a written test or quiz in lip-reading class, or it could have been oral, in order to reinforce the lip-reading they had just practiced. My mom used to teach Art classes at the Virginia State School for the Deaf and Blind in Hampton, Virginia in the 1970's. It was residential, with dormitories and a dining hall, and different buildings for different types of instruction.
They had a vocational skills instruction department too, for mostly the Deaf students, like Cosmetology, which was a favorite for the Deaf girls, requiring excellent lip-reading skills; and Home Economics; they also had an Upholstery Shop; and for the blind students who had good musical skills, they had Piano Tuning. Also they had a Dry Cleaning and Commercial Laundry department, a Print Shop, and the favorite for the Deaf boys was Auto Shop! They had an auto mechanics section, as well as body shop.
The thing most folks didn't understand was that you didn't have to be completely deaf, or stone blind to go there. Many were only partly so, but the public schools were not yet accommodating to such handicaps, nor were the medical or surgical treatments for them as advanced as they are now. No cochlear implants yet, for instance, or as many very successful surgical treatments for either the blind or deaf children.
This was when I was in high school myself, and I spent time in my mom's Arts classroom when school was out for me but not for them. I got to be friends with quite a few of the students my age, and the instructors as well. I got my hair done several times there by the Instructor as a "hair model" and she always did a fantastic job; I got clothes dry cleaned, including my wedding gown after I got married the year after I graduated from high school; and had a car painted there too, which was done with all the same equipment as any other auto body shop. It was a beautiful job.
They changed up their school population a few years later, moving all the Deaf students to the other school in Staunton, and all the blind students came to the school in Hampton. Art wasn't then something as easily taught to blind students as it was to the Deaf kids, so my mom got another job. By then I was living in Indiana with my ex-Air Force husband, whom I had met and married while he was stationed at the base near my home.
Shari D57 Thanks for sharing. Very interesting info that I didn’t know 😊
We don't give a fuck
@@TallyWackaTha2nd actually, some of us do.
Thank you for the very interesting and I informative post.😊
I appreciate the explanation...I couldn't understand why no one seemed to have hearing problems in the film.
why is the shoes man so freaking handsome
exactly
Basma Abdallah. RIGHT?
Because he's an actual man, not what they're showing on TV.
this SHOEMAN can sell me a pair of any time!
In real life he was what they called back then a homosexual.
The movie is good, but I prefer the book.
I know! This movie took out all the best parts, and the shoe clerk didn't even run off with Barbara's mom at the end! Talk about artistic license!
LOL!🤣
True wit at it's finest bravo
🤣😂😆
+1
Fitting in with peers.......never goes out of style.
It's a film to help hearing impaired people to read lips on film
southernlight6 really?
Look at the credits at the beginning. All pertaining to deaf people. Took me a while to figure this out.
southernlight6 lol
Really? We didn't realize that. Thank you for telling us the obvious.
southernlight6 ohhhhhh thanks :)
Perhaps the worst acting I've ever seen. However, that made it enjoyable in an odd sort of way.
It is deliberately stiff, because it was designed for the hard of hearing. Contractions and more natural speech patterns would be harder to understand.)
Kirk Hansen I've seen better acting in Revene Of The Sith.
I hope these actors aren't students from the USC drama department.
My thoughts exactly! Maybe they were just acting out a Basal reader or something.
I agree, about the bad acting. But it had me on the edge of my seat so I had to keep watching. Which shoes will Barbara get? Will her mother allow her to get the white shoes so she has the same ones as Mary??? And why does she want to dress like Mary anyway??? Duh Duh DUUUUHHHH :D
It says right in the credits: " this is a life situation film for speech and hearing training". The film is meant to be watched by hard of hearing kids back in the day. That's why they had the stilted dialogue and acting.
I'm not a kid it's not 1955, and I'm not hard of hearing...but I watched it. Sue me.
Annnnnd, so it teaches them how to lipread stilted speech apparently.My mother lost her hearing when she was thirty six, and the reality of the situation, is if you ever want to lipread properly, you know, from the general population, it's probably best you don't tell people you can't hear, because then people break into practically hysterics over-speaking and raising their voice, as though deafness suddenly disappears with raised voices, therefore throwing off any lipreading skills you may had acquired, because you trained off of people speaking in a normal fashion.
Oh like ASL
Even _before_ I opened up the comments section, I noticed that part. I'll admit though that until the comments mentioned the lip reading practice stuff, I kept thinking "What does _that_ (read = speech & hearing) have to do with buying shoes? Do any of the _shoes_ talk or listen?!"
Academy Award acting! Barbara, though petulant, is the most natural actor.
You got that it was made for hearing impaired, right? So they are speaking very deliberately, not poorly acting
Yes, if she’s starring in a commercial for coffins.
Watch Next: Mary's mother asks her why she didn't get the money back when returning the shoes.
haha back then they would have your family name in a notebook, moms would go pay the store on pay day
And how come she got to return them after she'd worn them at school ? (Barbera had seen them.) Rumbled !
@@jennysbloke he shouldn't have excepted those those fungus ridden things.
"I'm returning the white ones. They're all dirty."
god, i feel like i've waiting _forever_ for the sequel...
Take a shot every time mother says "Barbara"
I'd be on the floor halfway through.
Or when Barbara says “mother”.
Take a shot every time they say "shoes" 😳😳
Take a moon pie every time they say dear 🌙🌙👠👠🌜🌕🌕🎑💡
Take a shot every time a word with more than 6 letters are used and you'll drive home sober.
Barbara is 9 years old here that would make her 70 years old now!
Sydnia
70
Ontario Guy -Depends on when Barbara's birthday🎂 is. Right now it's the middle of July, 2018. If she's already had her birthday🎂, she'll be 72. If she hasn't had her birthday🎂 yet, she'll be 71.
So, 2 years ago when you first answered this question, she could have been either 69 or 70, depending again on when her birthday🎂 actually happens to be. 🎉🎁🎊👞
Or she could be dead already.
Shari D57 wow 😄
Salesman Bob just turned 100 and he still works at the shoe store!!
This is so relaxing.
Im not sure what her name was...is it Barbara?
Mary looked like she'd slug Barbara for her lunch at school. Lol
Tekken Yeah, she was a BIGGEN.
Yep...🤣
Lmfao
I can remember having a girlfriend in school that was Marys size and she was bullied for her size. These days Mary would be considered a normal size and you would be bullied for being too skinny
Tekken hahahahaha!! Love your comment!! She does look pretty tough!! Barbara would be a target for sure!!!
I can’t stop watching these! 😂
A few years later Barbara will be screaming for go-go boots.
She'll be dressed in black lace, and getting boned on the dumpster behind McDonald's.
Go-go boots. LOL! So right.
No. Cha cha heels.
White go-go boots!
yes!..i begged for months for go-go- boots because they were popular .. had them only one week and I wore them marching in a parade when it was raining and they fell apart... Mom was not amused... they cost $7 which was a lot in those days...
I like her saddle shoes best.
Diana Gruver I used to wear saddle shoes when I was growing up. I haven’t seen saddle shoes in a long time
Yes Diana, I like her saddle shoes too, Diana. You see Diana, her saddle shoes are white And black. Barbara likes them, Diana. Mother likes them too.
@@judith_thordarson OMG!!! Are you the one who wrote this script? You still have the magic!
@@judith_thordarson And they are good for school! no straps, closed all around.
A steal at only $4.99.
It doesn't feel good. It feels BROWN.
In those days ALL kids new shoes wound up giving you painful blisters on your heels by the end of the day. It was the one curse of growing up in those days. Well...that, ...and polio epidemics.
This a commentary on the racial injustices of the time. Amid mounting pressure the girl must choose. In the end she declares "oh mother I like these brown shoes!"
@@JoeKaye-hn5dt Hmm, I don't think that was the case. Socks were a thing you know.
@@jpatherton2415 No, it's not?
Mary is a troublemaker.
The life lessons this video offers are invaluable.
Did all the actors take valium before this was filmed?
Wet Tex - This was intentionally made to help deaf and hearing impaired people learn how to lip read. It wasn't intended to be public entertainment.
@@sharid76 These things never are meant to be entertaining, but more like indoctrination. They at least should have had a moral to the story, like you should have enough brain power to not go lockstep with whatever your fiend, I mean friend, or hypnotist, does. If Mary wanted a head transplant, Barbara would have wanted one too. The lesson that Mary can change her mind at any time, therefore rendering Barbara's choice null, was completely lost on Barbara. Little sycophants aren't too bright.
@@charles2241 - You've missed the entire purpose of the video/movie/show/lesson - whatever you want to call it. It has nought but the simplest message because the message isn't at all important, nor the purpose. Its meant to teach lip reading skills to hearing impaired people - likely children the same age as these. They can't do that with the best effect unless it actually makes some kind of sense, AND so that it uses the simplest, easiest words to teach with at first. Thats all it's about - no more, no less.
My mother taught Art subjects to the deaf and severely hearing impaired students at a residential school for the Blind and Hearing Impaired - one of only two - in the State of Virginia for several years in the 1970's. I had ample contact with students and teachers alike, since I was in high school at the time, lived only with her, and could drive. We did not live there, of course, and my contact was strictly social. More than that would take much too long a time, and too much space to explain further.
@@sharid76 Actually, I know a great deal more about the subject of deafness than you would expect, which was in some other comment I believe I laid out here. Regardless of anything, the comment at this portion of the general video commentary, by me, was meant for basically a humorous purpose. BTW, I do find this notion of attempting lipreading as rather poor here, seeing as how a deaf person should be trained on how people REALLY speak, not as robots do, or at least that's what the Collier place had told my mother way back in '71. Back in '55, I don't know if they thought training via some robot method was actually better or not, but Collier didn't think so over a decade later. Thanks.
The acting in this one is some of the best I have EVER SEEN! I mean, I wanted to run out and get the brown shoes, they really sold me! Academy award ACTING by all if I do say so myself!
Take a shot every time she says 'mother'
Sorry. We couldn't pour 'em fast enough.
Take a shot each time you call your mom, "mom"
At times like these, I like to stop and wonder, "what am I doing with my life?"
That makes two of us
As a child going to the shoe store was like going to the Drs office for a yearly physical.
I sat in those same type chairs, and had the same shoe service!
This whole scenery is a replica of my school shoe days.
And shoes were so ugly and durable, because you wore the same ones every damn day and polished them once a month.ugg
At least you didn't have the X-ray shoe fitter
NOPE , Got y'all beat ...for a few years when I was about 7 to 10 I had to wear corrective shoes !!! This was the 60s and the were the ugliest things ever
My mom used to take me to get Buster Brown shoes. How I loved getting a new pair of shoes, which didn’t happen very often.
Barbara is a pain in the neck.
Hell ya. I would've said I ain't taking your shit anymore Barbra! Then I would have said. Be a god dam individual for once in your life! I don't know about you but I'm teaching my kids to be great individuals and to be there selves around people. That might depend on certain situations.
As are most children..lol
I thought that maybe the white shoes the other girl returned would coincidentally be Barbara’s size, and that she’d end up buying them lol
Read off of cue cards.😅
That would have been such a riveting twist!
"Are they sandals mother"
"No dear....they are shoes...wait...you will see them"
groundbreaking. Best actress award goes to Barbara's mom.
My vote is for the horned rim glasses!
They were a real mother and daughter...it was Method acting.
There is 6.29 minutes of my life I WILL never get back.
Mother knows best. My mother always had the final say when we were young about such things.
My parents know best.
@@andreasanchez3557 well that means your a smart offspring to know this, EVEN if your not a kid anymore. 🙂
I REMEMBER TRYING ON SHOES LIKE THIS IN THE SHOE STORE
This is for people with hearing problems which explains a lot !!!!! ie: the bad acting to emphasize all the words.
Take a shot every time the salesman doesn't slap her
Mary is the class fashionista apparently! And if Mary says brown shoes, then by god, brown shoes are where it’s at.
Is the speech to help those learning to lip read?
+carterfrvr That's what I thought.
Yes
The way Barbara and Mary calling each other's names sounds like they're going to settle some blood feud at school the next day.
Was this a twilight zone episode?
Rod serling: " meet Barbara, a charismatic little girl who desires shoes that compliment that trait. For your standard shoe, Barbara would fit what most would refer to as a size 6 to about 6 and a half, perhaps teetering on a 7, but this particular pair of shoes that this mysterious salesman has placed onto her feet are a one size fits all, whether you're a little girl named barbara, an adult ballet dancer with flatfoot, or a lumberjack in thick boots, this pair of shoes will fit you quite snuggly. Now you as the viewer will try on this new shoe with Barbara and proceed to walk with her as she wanders into... The Twlight Zone!"
@@TallyWackaTha2nd LOL!🤣
That was very persuasive ,l too will now buy myself brown shoes .
Damn, Barbara! If you're not paying for the shoes yourself, shut up! lol.
No shit. If she's not paying for them, the little bitch can take what she gets.
It's That Ingalls Girl LOL
Lol, your comment made my day! God bless you.
Vertical Horizon - Did you pay for all your shoes and clothes when you were 9 years old? And were you never consulted about what you wanted to wear, or not wear? I didn't pay for my stuff - nobody does at that age of course - but I got to express preferences on what things I liked better. Mostly because if I didn't like them, because I thought they made me look like some kind of a goof, they stayed in the closet. No sense in spending money on something that's never going to get worn.
But it's interesting 🤔 how those brown shoes,👞 which she claimed to "hurt her feet" at first, suddenly became beautiful and fit perfectly 👍 after the other little girl returned HER white shoes because the other ones she had were "better for school."
Shari D57 I think she was just joking around. Her comment was meant to be funny. When I read her comment I laughed out loud... I don't think she was being completely serious. I'm sure she allows her children to have a say in what they wear.
Her mom paid Mary a penny to come in and talk up the BROWN SHOOOOOES
Perfect to watch when you can’t sleep at night
Oh how I Love this..the Young school Girl very politely saying "Mother" and Not "Mommy" and being very obedient and listening to her Mother,s advice..😊😅
I noticed how the beginning credits mentioned the hearing impaired. This explains why each word is spoken so exactly. This is obviously a film intended for those learning how to read lips. Thanks for sharing.
Oh yeah? I should stop skipping the intro because I didn't know. I'm so use to watching bad short films
They’re just so natural and real true to everyday life😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I remember at the shoe store shopping with mama❤
HOW DID SHE GIVE HIM NINETEEN CENTS WITH TWO COINS????
ffff - how do you know she did? Its possible to hand someone several coins at once - for instance, a dime and a nickel, then four pennies = $0.19. Or, she could have just given him two dimes- that's simple enough to do, and makes $0.20, close enough for current purposes. And since this movie involves helping the hearing impaired practice lipreading, rather than entertainment, maybe that part wasn't considered so important at the time.
A nickel was worth 9 cents back then. The dime was still 10 cents.
One cent tip. Tipping the shoe salesman was big back then.
@@roachtoasties that would be an insult even in those days he would have thrown it back at her.
I heard 6 coins
How did this not get an Academy Award? It’s a mystery.
An alternate reality where word contractions were never introduced
Word articulation for the hearing impaired, stated by the description on the film.
Brent Spiner (Data from star trek) and Barbra Eden (Jeanie from I Dream of Jeannie) school of acting.
some award-winning acting up in here!
And the Golden Globe goes to Barbra! ;)
This was made to help teach deaf people to lip read. So, yes the pronunciations are a little stilted and deliberate. It wasn't intended to serve up Academy Award winning fare.
@@sharid76 we know.
Love the mom's glasses!
"Could I interest you in a casual pump?"
"Sure! I got time to look at shoes later!"
😂
that was both funny and painful to watch.. those actor's delivery sound so ... forced.
It was used to help deaf children learn to lip read
I wish I got nice leather shoes for six dollars...
Emily Fries - In 1955, $6.00 had the same buying power as $56.63 does today. Based on inflation.
data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=6.00&year1=195501&year2=201806
Sounds weird, yes. But true.
I've watched this film several times over the years. I noticed I commented in 2018, and it is now 2024. 😁
dammit Barbra get it together!
Lmao😭😂
Are you suggesting Barbara has bad habits?
The kids shoe store that I got my shoes at as a little kid had those same yellow chairs, and that was in the late 1980's/early 90's!
#noonecares
Oh Mr Baker you make choosing between the white shoes and the brown shoes so lovely.. He loves the brown shoes you chose Barbara and Mary
Top notch acting, truly.
When I was a child my mom took me to the shoe store to buy a pair of keds, it was early 60's and you got a magic decoder whistle with every purchase and the man went into the back room to get the decoder whistle and I watched him and as my mom was paying at the front counter I snuck into the back room and stuffed my pockets with decoder whistles. I then passed them out to my neighborhood friends and the neighborhood was sooo noisy from all the whistles haha
And yet you grew up NOT to be in jail??
When is season 2 coming out
Watching this story made me feel like it could have been turned into grade 2 reading material 😊📖👍
This was Al Bundy during a kinder, gentler time. 👞😮
Barbara turned into Dawn Davenport and demanded cha cha heels for Christmas!
Producer: University Of Southern California. I believe this is one of Steven Spielberg's first project's while he was in film school.
Poor salesman...lol I can remember these days well. Also remember the boxes being wrapped in brown paper and tied with twine.
This is great.
Beautiful innocence.
"I want white shoes, mother."
Oh so now the brown shoes don't hurt since Mary has brown ones. Come on gal, don't be a follower! I would've gotten the black strapped ones to be different.
Yeah, but you're a hippy. They didnt have those yet back then. =)
I bet the white ones Mary brought back were just the right size for Barbara too.
Yes, a good rebellious choice for that immediate situation, but while I can't speak for girls, there was no color that spoke conformity than black shoes for boys. So bad choice in terms of trying to be rebellious. I mean when a shoe shop only has three colors, what's a girl to do? For utter rebellion Barbara should had insisted they go to McDonald's instead, where despite it being an ultimate place for conformity, there would be a small chance she could had scored clown shoes with a happy meal.
She should have got custom some Nike Jordans and started dunking on them haters
She just wants to be like anyone else . She wants to belong.
Oh man, the acting, *muah* très magnifique!
NEW SHOES, NEW SHOES NEW SSSHHHHOOOEEESSSSS ! ! ! -GRANDDAD-
Who remembers that vintage metal shoe sizer, I think it was called a Brannock Shoe Sizer. A real toe jammer!
That & something to trip over in the store
@@msbrowngault I remember them
I was one of those shoe sales guys once. Yes you are correct, a Brannock device. They still have them in finer stores.
Mother I want cha cha heels
Little did we know that Barbara would grow up to be absolutely ... devine.
Those eyeglass frames made wearers look about 80 years old.
"What are you doing here, Barbara?" "I'm getting a fucking haircut!
Really easy flowing natural dialogue
I was waiting for something to happen.
And they all lived happily ever after...in the basement bomb shelter.
Well, I have officially reached the end of the internet.
Oh lord. I remember having to wear the same fugly brown doodoo shoes to school in the 70's. Didn't get a choice but a clip around the ear instead.
The black shoes were way better and more girlish, the brown shoes looked too boyish LOL!
+DanceDanceDance5678
Are you telling me you see no difference between a pair of sand colored, steel toed, caterpillar boots and a pair of piano black stiletto heels?
+Daniel Calzada
+5 appreciation points to your comment. The Luciferian social engineers are beginning to outlaw gender to make everyone androgynous. Fooey on that!
Justin, agreed.
The classic saddle oxfords she wore into the store were probably just too small or worn. She'd be better off sizing up to a 5 1/2 than going with the brown.
Buy her size 6 1/2 and stuff em with bunched up newspaper. Save yourself 5 bucks and an unecessary trip to cutie's shoe store.
A SHOE SALESMAN LOOKED SO ELEGANT...
When he said the shoes cost 6 dollars, I howeled with laughter.
Saturday morning shopping in Blandsville.
The power of admiration is shown in imitation. That's the principle used in creating idols in Hollywood for people to emulate. This is a big way the culture has been changed, through emulation.
I recall wearing red oxfords and mary janes.
They used to look so different back in the day.
Shoe Store with four different types of shoes. What a variety!!!
Buying shoes was a major ordeal when I was that age because I had inherited my mother's very narrow feet and comfortable shoes were almost impossible to find. I always ended up with terrible blisters from the heels rubbing because nothing was narrow enough to fit properly. I always had to go with my mother because my father always lost his temper.
She's wearing saddle shoes! Who would want new ones?
wow, Barbara is a little liar..lol
Times have changed a lot! Today when you go to a shoe store, the sales person doesn't even serve you at all. You're on your own as you reach for different pairs while they stand behind the cash! They do fuck all for you while they check their phones! These short plays show times when people had moral values and quality service was first!
Yeah, anything else?
Did you need a bunch of help choosing shoes simp?
Oh those halcyon days when your parent said which pair of sneakers/hat/jacket do you want - red or blue? You anwered "red", to which they proceeded to buy the blue one. 😅
Barbara is quite a handful!
The dreaded saddle shoes. My mother had my father take me shoe shopping. I came home with shiny patent leather shoes with a bow on top. Mom was annoyed but let me keep the shoes ( not very comfortable) . Biggest thrill getting penny loafers and the sales person putting a bright new penny in them.
I was 6 years old in 1969 and my mother bought me a pair of saddle shoes for school. I think they were almost out of style by then, and I (and one other girl at school who had them) got teased by some of the kids for wearing them.
Saddle shoes! I wore those in catholic school!
How these people didn't receive Acadamy Awards is beyond me! 😜
Lucky Barbara... from age 7 to 10 my age DID match my shoe size, and I was dying for some grownup to tell me to act my age not my shoe size so I could make a wiseass comment, but they never did. All I ended up with is Godzilla feet.
OMG...it reminds me of when I had to wear oxfords because some guy convinced my mother they would straighten out my feet..there was nothing wrong with my feet but I had to clomp around in them..the only good thing about them was when the boys teased me ,I could give them one heck of a kick with my oxfords.