Centron Teenager Social Guidance 1950s Films DVD

Description: Please read & note: This is a Rights holding DVD created & produced by me and is not factory made or sealed. Please note this when purchasing, but also know that all of the films are very watchable. All pictures are actual screen captures from the DVDs. 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 remastered. I remaster all of my films myself to the best possible quality achieveable. 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. 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. Item specifics are: 　 10 CENTRON PRODUCTIONS INSTRUCTIONAL / SOCIAL GUIDANCE FILMS ON DVD 　 1: Cindy Goes to a Party (1955) B&W Runtime 9 minutes In this real drop down corker of a movie, Cindy, real tom girl that she is who plays basketball and fishes all day, wonders why she's not invited to Mary's party. She weeps to her mother (who is very strange looking and has no eyebrows) before she goes to bed. That night, her fairy godmother wakes her up and tells her that she's invited to the party, and takes Cindy to the party, while trotting out conformitive hints and tips with her wand like "leave on time" and "be a good loser". Soon, the fairy godmother leaves, Cindy cries for her not to leave as she is woken up by her mother, who says that Mary's sister, who's in the bedroom as well, forgot to bring the invitation over. What do you know, she LOOKS like the fairy godmother... A MUST SEE! 　 Film 2: The Snob (1958) B&W Runtime 13 minutes Pretty amazing film featuring realistic teenagers, real looking sets, and realistic dialogue and situations. Sarah is a snob.. or is she? She doesn't have many friends, seems to ignore social functions and sticks her nose out to everyone. Sarah's mom sets her up with the nice boy who has parties at his place every weekend, but even that collapses when she makes a scene after refusing to dance. What is triggering all of this? We don't get an answer, which hinders the film a bit, as the film asks us if there was a way she could like people, and I would find such a question difficult to answer without some more background on her character. Nevertheless, this is one of the best Young America films I've seen. 　 Film 3: Cheating" (1952) B&W Runtime 11 minutes Nice lighting, striking camera shots and great imagery (The shot of the back of Mary's neck is particularly effective) makes 'Cheating' totally worth while. While some of the acting by the supporting cast is a little bad, the leads are great, and make this little film highly recommended. 　 Film 4: The Bully (1952) B&W Runtime 10 minutes Chick, leader of a gang (he looks to be 17, the kids, 10-11) threaten to spoil the plans of the other kids in his class's plans for a picnic. The group is stymied over what to do when they come up with an ingenious plan! A VERY puzzling film which features almost grown up adults being threatened by wimpy looking 10-12 year olds who look so thin, one wonders how much damage they can do. The plans they come up with to disrupt the picnic (dumping mud on the table! Setting off firecrackers!) seem ludicrous but just the thought of this terrify the older folk. 　 Film 5: The Other Fellow's Feelings (1951) B&W Runtime 8 minutes One of the worst and best films Centron ever made, and you know what that means. Bad acting, a ludicrous plot and strange camera angles. Judy is asked a question by her teacher, when all of a sudden, she breaks down and cries! Why did this happen? We flash back to what happened that fateful day. It seems that Judy received some perfume that she liked. Then in a scene that is so awkwardly staged it becomes fitfully funny, we see Judy's back to the camera AND blocking the door, when Jack crashes into her, the perfume breaks on the floor. Jack tries to help Judy clean up, but when Jack smells the perfume, he goes "eww stinky!" The teacher then walks in, but instead of helping Judy.. SHE WALKS PAST HER! HAHAHAHA! Jack continually pesters Judy about being sticky, even posting a sign on her back! This drives Judy over the edge, and she breaks down. What could Judy have done? Ignore him? Or, as the film straight facedly suggests, without any regret, REVENGE? Why, you decide! A MUST SEE! 　 Film 6: The Outsider (1951) B&W Runtime 12 minutes Poor Susan Jane, the girl with the serious parting of the hair JUST can't seem to fit in! You see, she's convinced that everyone is talking about her behind her back! The funny thing is, that they ARE, they're wondering how they can be friends with her! Marcie, the team leader it seems, plans a party, and wants to invite Susan Jane, but because of a misunderstanding, Susan Jane thinks they want to invite her to laugh at her! LOL! Marcie comes over to talk with Susan Jane, but when she gets there, she talks to Susan Jane's mom first. The scene is so badly constructed that Marcie somehow talks to Susan Jane's Mom's chest. Pretty soon, everything's resolved, thank goodness. 　 Film 7: The Procrastinator (1952) B&W Runtime 11 minutes Another amazing production put forth by my favorite teen guidance film maker, Young America films! In this film Jean procrastinates putting off everything, and she's in charge of her school social committees and parties! Her parents and school principal goes after her, but she doesn't listen, and it all winds up horribly, with the students coming down on her harshly. The actress playing Jean is alright, but special bonus points go out to the actress playing her Mother, who seems to put a comma after every two words, her enunciation is bizarre. And the actor playing Jim, who looks EXACTLY like the boy pal Cindy has in Cindy Goes To A Party.. Same voice, same inuncations. But, this was made 4 years earlier then that classic film. I'm at a loss to explain this. Highly recommended! 　 Film 8: The Show-Off (1954) B&W Runtime 11 minutes Let's follow Farm-twanged Kay Reynolds and her class as they get branded as trouble all because of one student, Jim Baldwin! He's always getting in trouble with his teacher for interrupting classes, and causing her headaches. It soon gets personal with the gang too, as Jim breaks one of the kid's parents glasses in a party! ("My best china!"), soon they're a menace 2 society by, horrors, putting up an illegal sign on the school! 　 Film 9: The Trouble Maker (1959) B&W Runtime 12 minutes Skulking about the shadows of Generic High School there is a cancer... Mel, the class troublemaker. Spreading rumors, half-truths and outright lies, Mel tries to make himself popular at the expense of others, and can't understand why the others regard him like toe fungus. Particularly funny is the scene where Mel tells Dean, the star quarterback, how much he admires him, which comes off as a big, big crush. Ends, of course, with the classic Centron question mark. 　 Film 10: What About Juvenile Delinquency? (1955) B&W Runtime 11 minutes Hyper acting Jamie goes out to meet his hoodlum gang at the malt shop, (their insignia looks to me like the Flash Gordon symbol). When he gets there, he finds out that the gang jumped his Dad on the way over to the shop! With Anger, Jamie rips off the patch and resolves never to join the teen gang again! That's good, because it just so happens that the city hall is trying to bar the kids from doing anything because of all this violence. The other clean cut kids try to convince Jamie to come, the gang says he better think twice about doing something like that.. as if the City Hall will prevent them from continuing being hoodlums. What will Jamie do? 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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