Teen Dating Dos and Don'ts in the 1940s | Flashback | History
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2018
- How do you ask someone out on a date? A "mental hygiene" film from 1949 offers an interesting look at cultural ideas about teenage dating in the years following World War II.
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surprisingly very mature, respectful, and very wholesome for its time. No weird underlying sexism, sleaziness, or excusing men's poor behavior. Overall pretty positive for '49.
I feel this is something Tony stark would show Steve rogers
Monica Dias I’m literally here researching for tidbits about the 40s for a fanfiction hskdjf omg
@@liliarosejones4568 Omg
Hahaha send me the link
So want to read ❤
@@liliarosejones4568 asdfghj same xDD
You mean vice-versa....
manb4war no, we mean it this way ahaha This would totally be something tony would show steve to tease him xD
They talked with so much emphatic tone and character in the 40s. Its really interesting and conversation seemed lively.
If these people are still alive today, it’s hard to believe they could be in their late 80s or 90s
Wow we didn't know they would be that age , thank you you are such a genious
95 at least
1940s Girl finally gets a date:
US Military: Hippity Hoppity He's Now My Property
Lmfao!!
😂😂😂😂😂
@@campbellmays9900 yeah that too
Fast forward a couple years that’s the same couple in the picture of the end of ww2
he's gonna date some japanese chicks
It's so touching to see such a clean date.
Until after the video
@@zacharysantana3861 I enjoy the fact that they’re both white.
@@raptureready5226 wtf is wrong with you
@@raptureready5226 please shut up interracial relationships are a good thing
@@Peace_and_love_24 hey everyone has got there right to an opinion
dude wtf was wrong with betty?! girl seemed nice! didnt even give her a chance
Well looks like she's boring
She was either too shy or had zero social skills. Either way, he'd have work hard to keep her interested and engaged in the activities. Pass
Betty isn't cute at all and she seems boring. Anne is better in every way, she's cute AF and cool.
I thought it was hilarious how he was quick to say goodnight and waltz away with a smile on his face
"You mind giving him the pushoff for me?" player move lmao
My life is like the 1st option
Today, a HI-TEEN CARNIVAL is totally different thing altogether! Then: Holding hands, drinking pop, dancing, popping balloons and cream soda. Today: Feeling up, drinking crown, twerking, popping cherries and cream pies!
Frr
🤣🤣
It wasn't much different then. That's why films like this were produced. Adults believed kids needed to be indoctrinated into behavior that they deemed acceptable- like that shown here. Talk to someone who actually lived in this era and you'll quickly discover this was an idealization rather than the reality.
I’d loved to live in them times, no social media
Not to mention a simpler and innocent way of life
I would too but I’m black so.....
@@Lifeofchris06 ahahahhah unlucky
Ok boomer,,, you're using social media to state this, though lol
@@Meme-xq1wn Pretty sure it is. I Googled it just to make sure. :)
I bet Ann knows how to have a good time the way she's scarfing that Cotton Candy🤔
E. L. Lol
What every guy wants!!! LMAO
@@jstaversky I’d take it!
Ann is nice.
Ann low key looks like Judy garland
@Millennial Smark LMAO💀
uh, Eeyn?? well up.. how bout a date. BEUGh well Imean-
back when society and people were normal
carlos laguna when lil tay didn’t excist.... aah good old time
Ah yes the golden days. Normal people all around like the KKK and Homophobes. It sure was normal not seeing any blacks thanks to good ol' segregation. (I know what you mean, but I hope you also know what I mean, no hard feelings).
a bunch of iguanas with internet acces lmao facts. These people are idiots
Back when we still had segregation what a great time to be an American
a bunch of iguanas with internet acces stop making it about race they mean go back to those times without the slaves KKK and racism
Gee Wilikers, that was so peachy.
Heinrich Rosenberg peachy keen indeed
@@manila1909 “white people have no culture” seems like a comment I will find here soon... rofl
All my friends are dead.
Push me to the edge
Jesus. Christ im sorry
I'm Sorry For Your Loss... 😭😭
😱😱😱😱nah
I’m in the wrong generation... someone please take me here
Bruh judging by your name you’re Latina so I hope you’re joking.
Jazmin Guzman Sam’s
@@2thouxan I think the times only disliked Black people, not Hispanics. And I'm sure racism wasn't as big back then as the mainstream media always portrays. Many Whites didn't agree with racism, even back then, that's why it ended. Also you could be Black and have Black slaves, it was more about money and status than race. But even at the height of American slavery, not even 1% of Whites owned slaves, and the vast majority of that was only in the South.
Slavery was just part of the times and how that era was. Slavery always been all around the world, not just America. But America was then first on Earth to abolish slavery and make it illegal.
@@2thouxan you stupid bra
Whatwillyou buildmany lmaooo
I seen this on the comedy network back in the 80s but it seemed funnier.The announcer was more sarcastic.
SCTV, with Andrea Martin as sexologist Dr. Cheryl Kinsey narrating this film. S02E5, but that particular skit didn't make the current clips on YT. Very funny commentary! "What do *those* balloons mean?"
i love the way they talk
Now in today's days.. " Facebook friend requests. "
I'm willing to bet that no one actually acted this way. The kids that were shown this probably thought it was ridiculously stupid and cheesy; just as we all did, being shown similar videos in school.
This is a different time people did act like that
These films were actually pretty accurate. They were basically the equivalent to a modern day documentary. They just enforced the status quo, not try to create it.
People acted a lot differently back then.
@@Zack-bl2gg I've realised that theres a big difference, throughout history, between how the equivalent of the 'middle' class and the 'lower' class lived - this (1940s social hygiene video) may have been a good representation of 'middle' class kids, but look at "A West Side Story" for a representation of 'lower' class and 'under' class kids. We just see more lower/under class kids on TV and Social Media today!
I think the idea that kids where less crazy in prior years is just plain wrong, every generation likes to believe they are special and the people before them where lame - they were pretty much us in different clothing!
@@andrewyang7385 who’s talking about the non-middle class, and who’s talking about the city, who’s talking about a fictional play, and who’s talking about the rival gangs? That isn’t related at all to the actual film. You can critique lower class and upper class society as much as you want, but this was neither.
I’d recommend talking to middle class Americans that lived back then(such as the people that made this film, or even your grandparents) or at least not referencing a fictional film/play about the lower class gang wars that is just a modern retelling of Romeo and Juliet. Because… yknow… it’s a modern retelling of Romeo and Juliet focusing on gang wars in the city. That’s all I can really say about that. It’s not even trying to represent most lower classes, only gang lower classes.
@@Zack-bl2gg I meant to say under class not lower class in relation to gangs and the like - apologies. I still think my point stands that what middle class Americans did and what Americans in the underclass did and indeed throughout every society in history is different from a sociological perspective - most media represents the cultural habitus of the middle class, I just warn against imagining that every kid irrespective of class was acting this way, I don't think it's realistic.
In 2020, Anne would’ve shouted “All the nerve” as soon as Woody brought up the carnival, period. She don’t wanna get COVID, after all.
Are you that bored that you’re actually watching this
No. Just interested in how stuff worked.
It's weird because my grandad was a teenager in the 1940s now he's in his 90s 😳
"Say..."
Back when one of the main rules to have your love reciprocated it was to be wholesome and to be a nice person.
Bring me back to the 50s bro 😢
3:30 i wonder who made these nice decorations, anyway RIP to all these beautiful actors
Anne is so pretty 😍. Classic beauty. I also like how girls talked back then, cute. Is this actress in anything else? I know she's probably dead now but would like to now her life story.
Anne looked like Sherly temple
Eventually woody just stops asking and just begins to take...well done woody
Ahh that static
I love static
Air smells nice that’s the point
Reminds me of Anne and Noah from the notebook
Old is gold
4:04 "just like that"
Well, it's 2021 and not much has changed only society and clothes
I live this
I love how these commercials always make it the girl’s responsibility to make the guy comfortable/ happy. Oh 1940s sexism is really something.
I feel like kids in school definitely made fun of this video like we all made fun of the videos they showed us in middle school
Oh how I wish it was that way still. Values are there however not many are used to such values.
1940s cool
Nothing alike this apocalyptic world today.
Now really an apocalyptic world
I have to watch this for an online class.
I am happy for you
Dating exclusively became popular in the 1950? People didn't date before that or?
Before then, dating was what you did with multiple people to get to know each other as friends. Courting was what modern-day dating was called back then, and it was only for after you'd gotten to know someone on dates
4:39 not much has changed girls are still having LOADS of fun
Ann looked like a female version of Young Sheldon Cooper look at her lips!
80 years later...
^70
72
When countries get rich, "love" is disposable.
back when boys had balls
What does this even mean
Can’t say ya blame the guys today for being so terrified
hi
Hi Ann, it's me woody and I have one too. Wanna go see a movie? Don't mind the 🌭 in the popcorn.
I think I would have went with that instead.
Anne looks like she wants to party.
Lesson 1: Be attractive
Lesson 2: Don’t be unattractive
Genuine attraction is for chad only.
Anne puts out, that’s why he wants to date her lmao
Me who is 18- and confused about teen dating?
are you still confused?
Ann looks like JUDY GARLAND
Much much easy to meet and date with beautiful women in the past than todays thanks to social medias but even before social medias it's internet affecting our minds to mass medias!!
America was way way ahead of its time .
I'm first, plz reply it would make my day
no
Congratulations :D
Why can’t we be this romantically respectful nowadays?
Woody: "Hi, Anne, this Woody..." lol Double entendre! Anne: "Of all the nerve!" then hangs up. She calls back: "Come around back." "I don't want my neighbors and friends to see me being picked by a boy who looks like a composite Howdy Doody/Pee Wee Herman character!" "BTW, bring a phat wallet and a rain coat!" "My time is money and If I'm going to get wet, I wanna be safe!" Like the saying goes: "Check yourself before you wreck yourself!"
Age 20 for a woman to marry in the 50s? Now it’s late 20s early/late 30s or not at all. Personally I would during my late 20s or not at all. 🤷🏼♀️
Ann...this is Woody.
How it going, you on fleek the other day, you down? Be there in 20. Aight.
Ain't got a bunch of insults deliberate jerks and innocent fools complaining about modern dating. They did not see this clip that teaches you how to deserve the type of girl to go out with
Women today are very different than women back then !☹️
Most women today are very horrible.
I want to go back. In time
@@bradstevens3208 ya
Ah the smell of misogyny
He choose Anne because she puts out.
back then girls were pretty
Was that really like this or is just a bad way of acting?
My generation will laugh at this and think it's naive
Your generation is an unstable, mentally ill, joke.
@@taasch2505 💀💀💀
Gee, History Channel....that was a swell show...
Women were so beautiful and men were well, men.
the us white slim girls still good bro.
The hanging balloons look like inflated condoms lmao
😂😂
Trump 2020, Nobody in that time notice… just sheer inocence.
1040's and it is colored?
Ralf Ayes 1940s........*facepalm*
OMG A TYPO LETS POINT IT OUT GUYS!!!111!11
We've had colored motion pictures since the 30's.
Torin no
Crocky wizard of oz, simpleton
Dating years ago was so very easy since most women back then were very civilized with very good manners and a great personality, something they don't have today at all. Nowadays unfortunately they're so very pathetic altogether, along with their very high standards now.
and the men back then were respectful and polite nowadays they are just misogynistic and just want to get you in bed, they just use you. it goes both ways mate
@@liv1245 well, nowadays men are less misogynistics, or even if they are they try not to show it, because they know that it's bad. Men were much more misogynistics before, then now
@@user-bz7pq8ew8k see I get your point and yes men are less misogynistic nowadays but they shouldn’t be praised for not being disrespectful. Women were controlled for thousands of years and are now only getting appreciation for everything they/we did. Sadly there are still very misogynistic and sexist man and this guys comment proves it. Disagree if you want, everyone has an opinion even if it’s the wrong one
@@liv1245 that's amazing, that u didn't start to be agressive about my opinion like some others, i'm really glad
But, honestly, u can disagree with me, but there was always fight betweeb men and women. Nowadays, unfortunatly, some women hate men and some men have women and both of this is disgusting. I think, men will never stop being sexist to women and women will never being sexist to men. And that's sad honestly
A lot of people pine for the novelty and the beaming social culture that once was, but so much has improved since then in the way of social expectations. It's more socially unacceptable to be judgemental towards others. LGBT do not have to fear being cast away in the way they once were, women are reclaiming their power and are expanding their talents and expertise in different careers than before, POC and minorities at large are challenging the societal challenges and hardships they never deserved and are welcomed largely in executive positions including presidency. My heart hopes that we will soon be able to say that we as a human race are all equal. Now all we need is to relieve this societal tension and regain this upbeat softness amongst one another.
Fifth Comment!!!
When we only had 2 genders
Boomer
💀💀💀😭😭😭😭😭
They are from the Silent Generation not even a boomer lol
Knowing that “mental hygiene” films were just propaganda films made by adults, I’m feeling pretty grateful that I live now, and not back then
Why
@@rmhd7550 He literally just said why. Use your brain.
@@akivaweil5066 I would rather live in those days than in the present any time
@@rmhd7550 oh boy are you spoiled. You would see someone paralyzed from polio and start crying to come home. Also, try working 6 days a week and making almost nothing from it.
@@akivaweil5066 Ok I'll do that
Dont blame yourself you were born in the wrong generation. Blame God
Back when the soy infection didn't happen
back when men were men and women were women we were still a moral country as a whole if only you could turn back the hands of time
what do you mean by men were men and women were women? you mean women had to be stuck at home with no freedom and the men were at work? nah bro it’s the 21st century, get over it
@@liv1245 did not mean that at all Boone is better or should have freedoms that anyone else does not have but let's start with something simple like genders how many are there well science and DNA will tell you there are only 2 not 82 that the left would like us to believe
@@liv1245 That’s not freedom you debt or consumer slave
Living in today's insane liberal PC culture makes me wish so bad I lived backed then.
@PinkGuy VEVO amen to that bro
I would not want to live in the 40's there is so many things wrong with this
Today is the generation of Justin Bieber & Miley Cyrus lol