For one of these educational films, the acting in this one is Oscar quality. They actually got some actors who cared and were able to deliver their lines somewhat realistically. Impressive.
These films were quickly abandoned by schools when they realized that when they showed them they greeted with raucus laughter from the audience that was supposed to be impressed. They exist now as curiousity pieces about a world that never really existed except in the imaginations of the film makers.
I loved this movie. Times did seem so much simpler. I looked up Harold Fearing, the guy who was named a National Merit scholar, to see what became of him and found his obituary. Sadly, he passed away in 2022 after a battle with brain cancer but he had a very successful life as a husband of a loving wife and a physicist with a PhD from Stanford after graduating for the University of Kansas. Lawrence school spirit cheered him on to great academic heights.
Incredible enthusiasm in this film. How joyful and enthusiastic the shouts and noises are. How children dance and jump around. And this just at a normal school. Unthinkable in Germany, where I am from.
I remember back in Jr high @ a pep rally nobody cheering for the football team. The principal got so pissed off they instituted a no talking policy during lunch hour and between class breaks in the halls until we cheered at the pep rally. Jr high was a depressing place and we were just reflecting the overall mood of the student body.
I hated the open-ended films. I had to sit through them in high school and have a “discussion” about it with my “peer group.” Truth be told, nobody cared what I thought!
One of the more bizarre aspects of the film. In 1958 cheerleaders wore skirts that were just about the knee, not down to their ankles. I wonder where the filmmaker got the idea for that bit of nonsense from. It helped serve to destroy its credibility with its intended audience.
@@drpsionic My dad graduated in '57 and I have his yearbooks right here behind me. The cheerleaders' skirts in them were just like the girls in the film, below the knee, though not so full. Majorettes/baton twirler skirts were short, though.
“Bob Corby sure did leave his mark. He turned off the lights at the prep assembly, and when they came back on again Corby was gone and we all had a mushroom shaped welt on our foreheads and an odd oniony scent on our upper lips. That Bob Corby was quite a guy”
How about forcing students to feign enthusiasm at mandatory pep rallies? That was my high school. I wasn’t into sports or typical high school stuff. The popular kids didn’t know I existed, and really, I didn’t care. Academically, I did well enough; made the National Honor Society, but went to only one meeting. I had nothing in common with the members. I had my art and outdoors activities, hiking, camping, horseback riding.
Your comment means nothing. Literally nothing Just stringing a few words together doesn't make for the profundity you were going for. Ideas are well thought out and constructed. This was just lazy
@@JohnnnyJohn Oh no no. I understand the phrase. It's just that you contributed nothing to any conversation by simply plotting in down here in the comments section as if you were a sagacious wiseman That whole thing you're going for isn't working out to well for you it seems.
Back in the day when students had respect and parents didn’t blame teachers for their own shortcomings. Teachers of that generation would have a mental breakdown if they saw what today’s society has become.
School spirit happens in the locker room when the cheerleaders take off their uniforms. The varsity team "comes" in and has their way with the girls. Meanwhile the cheerleaders and football coaches are getting it on in their offices. The principal gets to choose which guy or girl he wants. It's all in the school spirit handbook!
Been on basketball team myself in high school Billy Bob is 100 percent right. The knob gobblers Were cool but the girls who spread were the ones for me
It's easy to laugh at this. Obviously a period piece with period absurdities, the outfits on the cheerleaders and the malt shop, things that would be joke in a few short years but it is interesting to note something here--groupthink, almost cultish groupthink. You have an athlete whose prinicipal reason for existence is the ability to throw a ball through a hoop. He makes a speech, gets sick and dies and out of this is created the Stepford High phenomenon. Where is the school cynic in all this, who sees this all as nonsense and is just doing his time before going on to college. They certainly existed. It was not all a division betwen the dumb jocks and the juvenile delinquents. There was another group, a large one, that would have been totally unaffected by this. It is their story that would more interesting. What made them immune?
If you look at films like this from the 1940s and 1950s you wont see any blacks. Schools were segregated and especially in the deep south, Jim Crow was universal. That was the status quo. You can see this on the sitcoms of the 1950s. No blacks. That was America at that time. When we saw these films when I was in grade school we knew we would not see a single person of color. We knew this was the way things were. America has to live with its history.
For one of these educational films, the acting in this one is Oscar quality. They actually got some actors who cared and were able to deliver their lines somewhat realistically. Impressive.
At 0:54 mark I was getting creepy David Berkowitz chills. That same look he had the night he got captured.
IKR??
Lizette Wanzer I know right there that was painless goof
That was indeed creepy.
Hate it when someone says, "I'm not much of a speaker," and then gives a speech worthy of a standing ovation.
"The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here..."
A. Lincoln
@@-oiiio-3993 But all posterity constantly notes what Honest ABE LINCOLN said here: The GETTYSBURG ADDRESS!
@@albertkundrat1734 That was the point.
@@-oiiio-3993 So, what did BOB CORBY actually look like? Did He RESEMBLE Closely the teen actor who played Him in this 1958 film?
@@albertkundrat1734 What?
Imagine the circumstances that would force you to have to watch this particular film in the 50s...
These films were quickly abandoned by schools when they realized that when they showed them they greeted with raucus laughter from the audience that was supposed to be impressed. They exist now as curiousity pieces about a world that never really existed except in the imaginations of the film makers.
@@drpsionic they just evolved into the after school specials of the 80’s.
@@drpsionic These types of films were still be shown in my school in the '60s and even early '70s. Yeah, we laughed.
they showed it at the pep assembly
An unexpected hard hitting film about school spirit.
Nhdx H 😂
Excellent film about school spirit, and a player who was ill and could not
help the team, yet the team won.
I loved this movie. Times did seem so much simpler. I looked up Harold Fearing, the guy who was named a National Merit scholar, to see what became of him and found his obituary. Sadly, he passed away in 2022 after a battle with brain cancer but he had a very successful life as a husband of a loving wife and a physicist with a PhD from Stanford after graduating for the University of Kansas. Lawrence school spirit cheered him on to great academic heights.
Incredible enthusiasm in this film. How joyful and enthusiastic the shouts and noises are. How children dance and jump around. And this just at a normal school. Unthinkable in Germany, where I am from.
It's just a film.
Bob Korby. Fucking Legend. RIP BOB.
I remember back in Jr high @ a pep rally nobody cheering for the football team.
The principal got so pissed off they instituted a no talking policy during lunch hour and between class breaks in the halls until we cheered at the pep rally.
Jr high was a depressing place and we were just reflecting the overall mood of the student body.
I can easily relate to your experience, being in a small town in the mid-60's 🤔
For Bob Corby not being much of a speaker he got his point across.
Bob Corby later became the first guy on his block to get a confirmed kill in Vietnam…
Here's the award we won WITHOUT you Bob. We thought you were our star player but we really didn't need you.
Oh, THAT Bob Corby.....
I love these Coronets that finish open-ended.
*? ? ?*
I hated the open-ended films. I had to sit through them in high school and have a “discussion” about it with my “peer group.” Truth be told, nobody cared what I thought!
With the lights out it's less dangerous..
Here we are now
Love how the cheerleaders are wearing SO MUCH MORE cloth than the players :-D
Now the cheerleaders wear tiny pole dancer outfits and the guys have shorts down past their knees.
One of the more bizarre aspects of the film. In 1958 cheerleaders wore skirts that were just about the knee, not down to their ankles. I wonder where the filmmaker got the idea for that bit of nonsense from. It helped serve to destroy its credibility with its intended audience.
@@drpsionic I dunno. My mom was born in 1952 and had to wear ankle-long skirts for PE until she was 15. Even for high-jumps. Regional differences?
@@drpsionic My dad graduated in '57 and I have his yearbooks right here behind me. The cheerleaders' skirts in them were just like the girls in the film, below the knee, though not so full. Majorettes/baton twirler skirts were short, though.
This was a theme to a movie about notre dame football
I desperately need to know what happened to Bob.
Wow I can’t believe this was 60 years ago now
Why the arm bands Jim? "Oh thats just the SS Sally"
I think other than family and friends, everyone is replaceable. No part is greater than its whole.
Me looking over to see if the teachers not looking: 0:53
Bob is gone??? Where he go
Area 51.
“Bob Corby sure did leave his mark. He turned off the lights at the prep assembly, and when they came back on again Corby was gone and we all had a mushroom shaped welt on our foreheads and an odd oniony scent on our upper lips. That Bob Corby was quite a guy”
0:45 - 0:47 "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus!" At least, that's what I've heard.
Spark plug of the team!!! So he fouled a lot?
He was a Champion!
Of course the captain of the cheerleader squad got sick the same time Bob Corby did.
How about forcing students to feign enthusiasm at mandatory pep rallies? That was my high school. I wasn’t into sports or typical high school stuff. The popular kids didn’t know I existed, and really, I didn’t care. Academically, I did well enough; made the National Honor Society, but went to only one meeting. I had nothing in common with the members. I had my art and outdoors activities, hiking, camping, horseback riding.
This is better in the original klingon.
Qapla'
"Folks, I'm tellin' ya. With school spirit like that, we can beat State this weekend!"
- David Letterman
Conform. Obey. Fit in.
Your comment means nothing. Literally nothing
Just stringing a few words together doesn't make for the profundity you were going for.
Ideas are well thought out and constructed. This was just lazy
It was a reference. One you obviously don’t get.
@@JohnnnyJohn I get it. It's been rundown into the ground with the rest of so many other cliches
@@D.A.-Espada You just have just proven, again, that you didn't get it.
@@JohnnnyJohn Oh no no. I understand the phrase. It's just that you contributed nothing to any conversation by simply plotting in down here in the comments section as if you were a sagacious wiseman
That whole thing you're going for isn't working out to well for you it seems.
Was BOB CORBY a REAL Entity?
it takes a team to win
School sprite is just as dead as Bob Corby
I love sprite 🥤
golly, wish I could relate
That Gym looks like the highschool gym where I went to school.
Mine did too. I think they all look pretty much the same. Then and possibly now.
Did you go to school with Bob Corby?
Whats up with crazy Tom Morgan
She looks like Stephanie Edwards
That was back in the day when you had real teachers.
Back in the day when students had respect and parents didn’t blame teachers for their own shortcomings. Teachers of that generation would have a mental breakdown if they saw what today’s society has become.
School spirit happens in the locker room when the cheerleaders take off their uniforms. The varsity team "comes" in and has their way with the girls. Meanwhile the cheerleaders and football coaches are getting it on in their offices. The principal gets to choose which guy or girl he wants. It's all in the school spirit handbook!
Been on basketball team myself in high school Billy Bob is 100 percent right. The knob gobblers Were cool but the girls who spread were the ones for me
It's easy to laugh at this. Obviously a period piece with period absurdities, the outfits on the cheerleaders and the malt shop, things that would be joke in a few short years but it is interesting to note something here--groupthink, almost cultish groupthink. You have an athlete whose prinicipal reason for existence is the ability to throw a ball through a hoop. He makes a speech, gets sick and dies and out of this is created the Stepford High phenomenon.
Where is the school cynic in all this, who sees this all as nonsense and is just doing his time before going on to college. They certainly existed. It was not all a division betwen the dumb jocks and the juvenile delinquents. There was another group, a large one, that would have been totally unaffected by this. It is their story that would more interesting. What made them immune?
Plot twist - they fall in love.
If the 1st guy had a cousin like that he would keep her all to himself
Especially if she was from Arkansas…
Bob Corby-- MAGA hero!
Silent generation
4 people must have poor school spirit 😒 haha
Bob Corby: the Donald Trump of Lawrence High…
I would have liked to be in highschool during the early 50s. I was born in 1956, but Im a 50s girl.
Not a single African American was illustrated in this film. Not such a great time.
they were busy having a different set of teen problems at their segregated school; wish we could see their teen life
unless your are white of course.
If you look at films like this from the 1940s and 1950s you wont see any blacks. Schools were segregated and especially in the deep south, Jim Crow was universal. That was the status quo. You can see this on the sitcoms of the 1950s. No blacks. That was America at that time. When we saw these films when I was in grade school we knew we would not see a single person of color. We knew this was the way things were. America has to live with its history.