In the early 1980s I was in high school. One day while sitting in class, out of the blue, for reasons i cant recall, the school 16mm movie projector was rolled into the classroom. And they played for us several of these old, antiquated 1950s instructional films on how to date, how to be polite, how to behave, etc. My classmates laughed through them. The wooden acting, the cheap production values, the over politeness, the squeaky clean activities (a picnic, a carnival, a weenie roast, bike riding, a day at the park, dinner at home with the family, etc), the innocent slang of the time (gee, golly, swell, etc). I on the other hand, wasn't laughing. To the contrary. As someone who was being raised in a severely abusive, dysfunctional home (We never did anything together as a family. We NEVER sat together at the same table at meal times. Not even once. Even though we always had a full sized dining room with a full sized dining room table), i found these films to be quite charming. A sort of a time capsule of a more innocent era. DON'T get me wrong. I had no illusions. I was well aware that the 1950s wasnt so perfect and innocent. That there were negative things going on in the 1950s, such as segregation, criminal activity, corruption in the public and private sectors, poverty, the occasional economic recession, war, etc. No decade is perfect. But still, it seems to me that there were SOME things in the 1950s they were doing so right back then that we were doing so horribly wrong in the early 1980s as well as today.
No they said momma and papa, like we do today but some families were more formal than others. But parental love was something that developed more in the 18th century.
Not to fret.........this very same towel (unwashed) was also used for each of the family members to take a bath with........you see, back then, towels were a scarce and precious commodity!!!
How this takes me back. I was 3 years old in 1948.Our dog was named Spot . My dad would not let Spot in the house. Dear old dad didn't like dog's much and so one day he took Spot out to the country and dumped him. My brother who was 1 year older then me and I cried so hard that my mother made dear old dad go find Spot and bring him home.I remember it all like it was yesterday. Golly Ge it was good to have Spot back home and dear old well he just opened up a beer and played like it all didn't happen.
@@arriesone1 yes he was a nasty man but the woman who lived down the street liked dad alot her old man drove a truck and was gone a lot so when she needed something he would take care of it for her. She didn't have a dog but she had a pussy 😸🐈
Families didn't have time to argue. They had to work a lot more. Ol Ma didn't look that haggard for nothing. She had to make clothes for the family and darn Pop's socks. Wash windows, clean up after Fluffy after every meal. It was tough back them.
Love the video, but had to laugh at the snow and removal with big smiles on their faces. Our faces stay grim in the north, even if we're working as a family.
Such a simple time. No home computers, no cell phones and in most cases no TV. They had radio and phonographs. Dad went to work and mom stayed home. He had a good job and no worries. Everyone was happy and got along.
We're all gonna die and there's nothing we can do about it so it's silly to dwell on it. If you want to live forever do something people will remember for centuries. Or you could sign some kind of contract with an infernal entity that will grant you eternal life in exchange for being its slave.
No more different than your will be dead in the same number of years. Typically this kind of reflection comes from young people who have not lived enough.
Not back then; I grew up in the 1950s and 60s, and bedtime was immutable. None of us four kids functioned well with less than nine hours of sleep---as far as I know, it's still the same way (the brother next to me in age disowned the family 100% 37 years ago), so my bedtime is still immutable---and Mom and Dad had jobs that required them to be up far earlier than normal jobs did, so they needed to be in bed earlier than most adults did.
I like the video. I don't think it was unrealistic that's how things were in the past (and some family's still are today) familys working together....wish more were. I have old fashioned values and believe children should have chores and learn to do cooking a cleaning laundry all the things they will need to know. I had my kids in the kitchen with me. They got an allowance which they would earn but behaving and doing chores. I also didn't just give them extra money they could talk with me for certain things I would give it and for other things they would offer to do something extra to earn it.
! Mine, like yours, were in the kitchen with me too, both of them, and we had one daughter and one son! They learned how to pick up their own toys and put them in the toy box when they were old enough to walk. They started doing their own laundry, and had assigned laundry days, when they were 10. Kitchen stuff seemed to come natural when they were old enough to talk, and stand on a chair or step stool to reach the counter top. OR the sink! Doing the dishes was part of everyday life, and everybody helped. They had a chore board, and once they could do everything on it without assistance, they were allowed to negotiate with each other to keep the jobs covered. I didn't care much who did the jobs, as long as SOMEBODY did them! If one had an extracurricular activity, like band practice, and couldn't get a particular chore covered, they could barter with the other to do it in exchange for doing something else. They developed their own budgets when they got their first jobs; to cover their own personal expenses. Our son bought a used car from his dad's employer, for whom be worked one summer, and he bought it on short-term time payments. He also paid for the title, taxes, license plates, and most of his insurance, and worked out a budget for his money, and kept it up on a small white board on the wall right next to the door of his room so he would always see it, and so that everything was covered, and also got a checking account. Our daughter bought her own car once she was out of high school and had been working for a littlr while. Before that, they each drove a small car we had purchased for their use, as longh as they contributed to its upkeep, and bought their own gas when they used it. She started purchasing all the things she figured she would need when she moved out on her own, and stored them in a closet in her bedroom until she did.
Yeah it's crap how the boys weren't automatically expected to be in the kitchen but the girls were. So I guess the boys got a free pass to do what they wanted.
I'm 62 and that's how we wore our boots. Just get the boots a size bigger. They were nothing but rubber boots and it would get too cold even with two pairs of socks on. So you added the shoe's
For all you foreigners out there: this life was only achieved by about half the population in this day, and about a third of the population now. I'm almost 40 and dream of not living in poverty. I'm an accomplished pilot, mechanic and builder, this is the current America: poverty and despair for even the most achieved.
One odd thing I've noticed after watching (too many) of these old classroom films. In the usual four person family (mom, dad, girl, boy), it's predominantly an older sister and a younger brother, far more often than random chance would dictate. Must have been some accepted reasoning for this among the people who made these films.
Prayers of thanks - thanks that two world wars, a depression, a deadly influenza epidemic and a dustbowl that at times that blocked out the sun even in Chicago are now a thing of the past. In 1948 people just wanted to be left alone.
Shouldn't Tony have washed his hands after scrubbing mud off the floor, and going straight to dinner prep? I guess that will be a lesson in another video on family hygiene?
@@JillKirchner I had a cuzzin (called "Spider" when he was 3) who blew up to 100 pounds at about 6 or 7. 275 by the time he was 12. But everybody else was skinny. I weighed 47 pounds until I was about 9.
My Mom was 12 years old when this film was made. It’s interesting to see what the “ideal family” looked like at the time. It does seem like the family has been pretty sterilized. Even back then I would imagine that most families lives weren’t quite as perfect as this one. 🤣 “Mother is sorry…” 21st century translation: “Mom’s pissed!”.
The girl seems to have to do a lot more jobs than the boy. Favouritism. He is old enough to do just as much. The boy should have had to clean the floor anyway, it was HIS dog that made the mess when he came in from playing with him.
This is funny..a reel like that takes about 10 minutes to to show on a projector..we had one and had to splice each reel together to get a decent home movie.
Galoshes, yeah. Rubbery things - women could get them to fit heels in transparent rubber. You weren't supposed to have to take your shoes off to wear them, part of the convenience - they just pulled on over shoes. Wish I could find a pair now...
This is therapy for me, what a beautiful time to be alive, everything was about family. ❤
In the early 1980s I was in high school. One day while sitting in class, out of the blue, for reasons i cant recall, the school 16mm movie projector was rolled into the classroom. And they played for us several of these old, antiquated 1950s instructional films on how to date, how to be polite, how to behave, etc.
My classmates laughed through them. The wooden acting, the cheap production values, the over politeness, the squeaky clean activities (a picnic, a carnival, a weenie roast, bike riding, a day at the park, dinner at home with the family, etc), the innocent slang of the time (gee, golly, swell, etc).
I on the other hand, wasn't laughing. To the contrary. As someone who was being raised in a severely abusive, dysfunctional home (We never did anything together as a family. We NEVER sat together at the same table at meal times. Not even once. Even though we always had a full sized dining room with a full sized dining room table), i found these films to be quite charming. A sort of a time capsule of a more innocent era.
DON'T get me wrong. I had no illusions. I was well aware that the 1950s wasnt so perfect and innocent. That there were negative things going on in the 1950s, such as segregation, criminal activity, corruption in the public and private sectors, poverty, the occasional economic recession, war, etc. No decade is perfect.
But still, it seems to me that there were SOME things in the 1950s they were doing so right back then that we were doing so horribly wrong in the early 1980s as well as today.
Is this ai ive seen this exact comment multiple times?
@@zillobeast5257
No. Not AI. I've posted it multiple times.
No decade was perfect. You made what you made of it.
Praying together, eating together and talking and getting closer together. Lovely. Something that all families should do.
My family does all that except praying. we are not religious.
@@christophercolumbus8944 I stand by my comment.
@@janinedear-barlow why must a family share a delusion and talk to invisible space beings? How does that help?
@@cantsay Just because you don't have a hope, doesn't mean other people have to go along with it.
@@janinedear-barlow it’s not “not having a hope” you’re delusional and mentally ill. i have hope in what’s right here , my loved ones and earth.
Home movies were always exciting for me as a kid.
Home movies were fun but I found more fun just spaking my monkey however it made me go blind over time and and could no longer watch movies.😎
@@lenisbennett3062 I found time for both.
Family goals. A simple way. I pray I could have.
These old videos are very comforting. Thanks for uploading! ♥♥♥♥
I agree
I find it so exciting these films I was born in 1962 and I love seeing how people had manners and respect for each other
Those days were amazing when the whole family helped each other.... Those days and love will never come again in the same way .
I like how back in the day people were mother and father, and not mom and dad. LOL!
No they said momma and papa, like we do today but some families were more formal than others.
But parental love was something that developed more in the 18th century.
😌
I was born in 1950 and my sisters and I called our parents Mama and Daddy!
Oh the memories......this was normal family life when I grew up and I raised my children the same way
I sincerely doubt you grew up in 1948
@@Ryan2022 I was born in 1947, but not in the States and our family-living was this way.
That home movie was less than 2 minutes long. I can't believe Mother was worried about having enough time to show it. 😺
She wasn't. It was a ploy to get Tony to work.
MeowingKittyCat they edited it and set up the screen to tho
Setting things up took longer back then
They need a projector and screen not just turn on a TV also no one rushed through dinner then.
@@bridgebum826 Exactly. It was some VERY heavy hinting.
Rifftrax needs to make fun of it later 🙃
I love this, love seeing this family working together and enjoying each others company🙂
Im watching these old videos about families cause i don't have one😔
I-
@@justthatonedumbkid7962 what do you mean "i-"
@@jake4725 it was a joke lmao
Mine is all 6' under.
I’m 😢 sorry.
9:39
Narrator: "Don't they skate smoothly together?"
Toby: *Proceeds to slip as camera cuts just before he falls*
okay but are we gonna discuss how cute fluffy is
was*
Fluffy's dead
@@comedial6829 Everyone in this video is dead.
@@Anarchist86ed Poor fluffy...
@@Anarchist86ed its 1948... the kids are at least in their 70s XD
Little Tony grew up and started Petco.
Spidersinspace. Or he grew up and is in prison for beastilitt
Lol!
This is so sweet
That towel he used on the floor, he put right back in the kitchen......all ready to dry the dishes. 😩😩
Not to fret.........this very same towel (unwashed) was also used for each of the family members to take a bath with........you see, back then, towels were a scarce and precious commodity!!!
Tony also didn't wash his hands before helping to shell the peas...
@@ppena4128 yes he did
@Spicy Chickpea
Thanks that cracked me up!!!😅
15 til 5 damn it Tony you know bedtime is at 5:15
Eu assisto várias vezes estes vídeos, trazem uma sensação de organização para a vida comum. Agradeço a postagem
Father didn't have to review the home movie in private this time before showing it to the family.
Lol
Honestly this is family goals
The dishes are finished! The dishes are finished! Sounds like Paul Revere's midnight ride.
OMG. It so does. Thank you for that. L😂🤣L
😂😂😂
😂😂😂
Who the heck smiles while removing ice and snow? It sucks, it hurts your back, you sweat like its August and your nose runs.
❤ life looks so innocent and no dramas of life now beautiful and peaceful, no social media 🙏
Great movie ,I enjoyed it alot.
These are my bedtime stories 🛌🧸🚪
Mine too 🥰
Yes mine too ❤
How this takes me back. I was 3 years old in 1948.Our dog was named Spot . My dad would not let Spot in the house. Dear old dad didn't like dog's much and so one day he took Spot out to the country and dumped him. My brother who was 1 year older then me and I cried so hard that my mother made dear old dad go find Spot and bring him home.I remember it all like it was yesterday. Golly Ge it was good to have Spot back home and dear old well he just opened up a beer and played like it all didn't happen.
lenis bennett What a nasty father you had
We did the same thing with grandpa only no one ever went back for him
@@arriesone1 yes he was a nasty man but the woman who lived down the street liked dad alot her old man drove a truck and was gone a lot so when she needed something he would take care of it for her. She didn't have a dog but she had a pussy 😸🐈
I like how you have two accounts
That sounded like a swell story. Jeepers!!!
i can't take all this goodness and niceness! Somebody please start an argument!
Families didn't have time to argue. They had to work a lot more. Ol Ma didn't look that haggard for nothing. She had to make clothes for the family and darn Pop's socks. Wash windows, clean up after Fluffy after every meal. It was tough back them.
@@JillKirchner no it wasn’t. it’s worse now
Love the video, but had to laugh at the snow and removal with big smiles on their faces. Our faces stay grim in the north, even if we're working as a family.
And that's why we'uns from the south call you'uns in the north ol' grinches!!!
@@uriahpeep9036 You'uns? That's eastern Ohio talk.
Love all these old films
Such a simple time. No home computers, no cell phones and in most cases no TV. They had radio and phonographs. Dad went to work and mom stayed home. He had a good job and no worries. Everyone was happy and got along.
for white people
How do know everybody was happy? Women had no say, all the while husbands cheated .
@@Rob774 Because they told me. 😆
❤Beautiful 🥰 memories of the way it used to be 😂😂
Beautiful video.
writeract2 La Principessa Anne Some families are able to manage home life like this. Moms can work at a paid job and still be a home-maker.
These shows are a hoot.I love the kitchen.
I miss Fluffy.
Soo cute! Many thanks from Germany!
It's depressing to think that dog and the parents are dead now.
We're all gonna die and there's nothing we can do about it so it's silly to dwell on it.
If you want to live forever do something people will remember for centuries.
Or you could sign some kind of contract with an infernal entity that will grant you eternal life in exchange for being its slave.
God has saved them
@@bumblebee2001 True they are on the other side now.
kath rin hahahaha f no!
No more different than your will be dead in the same number of years. Typically this kind of reflection comes from young people who have not lived enough.
Fluffy was a spoiled dog..
Mix dry food with whole milk!!
Someone in the comments wrote that after drinking that milk Fluffy was going to have the runs. Nice. Eww.
@@CMissShelleyMichelle That wasn't mud on Fluffy's paws.
Milk will give a full grown dog the sh!ts.
So charming!
This was so adorable.
Wow, they have a Dad.
@Annabelle she's my Gal. I have some of Rita's posters and movies.
I love these movies 💕
I'm jealous. My family doesn't even come close to this. I'm going to go watch Married with Children!
Or... you could just go to bed later.
*gasp* 😱
Not back then; I grew up in the 1950s and 60s, and bedtime was immutable. None of us four kids functioned well with less than nine hours of sleep---as far as I know, it's still the same way (the brother next to me in age disowned the family 100% 37 years ago), so my bedtime is still immutable---and Mom and Dad had jobs that required them to be up far earlier than normal jobs did, so they needed to be in bed earlier than most adults did.
Poor fluffy will have the shits after drinking milk
lol. I thought the same thing.
Me too!
This is the year I was born!!
I like the video. I don't think it was unrealistic that's how things were in the past (and some family's still are today) familys working together....wish more were. I have old fashioned values and believe children should have chores and learn to do cooking a cleaning laundry all the things they will need to know. I had my kids in the kitchen with me. They got an allowance which they would earn but behaving and doing chores. I also didn't just give them extra money they could talk with me for certain things I would give it and for other things they would offer to do something extra to earn it.
! Mine, like yours, were in the kitchen with me too, both of them, and we had one daughter and one son! They learned how to pick up their own toys and put them in the toy box when they were old enough to walk. They started doing their own laundry, and had assigned laundry days, when they were 10. Kitchen stuff seemed to come natural when they were old enough to talk, and stand on a chair or step stool to reach the counter top. OR the sink! Doing the dishes was part of everyday life, and everybody helped. They had a chore board, and once they could do everything on it without assistance, they were allowed to negotiate with each other to keep the jobs covered. I didn't care much who did the jobs, as long as SOMEBODY did them! If one had an extracurricular activity, like band practice, and couldn't get a particular chore covered, they could barter with the other to do it in exchange for doing something else. They developed their own budgets when they got their first jobs; to cover their own personal expenses. Our son bought a used car from his dad's employer, for whom be worked one summer, and he bought it on short-term time payments. He also paid for the title, taxes, license plates, and most of his insurance, and worked out a budget for his money, and kept it up on a small white board on the wall right next to the door of his room so he would always see it, and so that everything was covered, and also got a checking account.
Our daughter bought her own car once she was out of high school and had been working for a littlr while. Before that, they each drove a small car we had purchased for their use, as longh as they contributed to its upkeep, and bought their own gas when they used it. She started purchasing all the things she figured she would need when she moved out on her own, and stored them in a closet in her bedroom until she did.
Yeah it's crap how the boys weren't automatically expected to be in the kitchen but the girls were. So I guess the boys got a free pass to do what they wanted.
@Elcentry Benjamin they worked plenty
You couldn't have had boys doing laundry back then. It would've been considered fruity.
Is no one going to talk about how he was wearing boots over his shoes?
Yeah that's a thing some people do.
That is how it was done prior to the making of boots you could wear without your shoes.
They're called galoshes
I'm 62 and that's how we wore our boots. Just get the boots a size bigger. They were nothing but rubber boots and it would get too cold even with two pairs of socks on. So you added the shoe's
As one person wrote galoshes or rubber boots aka rain boots or of your English Wellies aka Wellington boots.
Am I the only one disturbed by the kid adding milk to tbe dog's dinner?
No. I envision someone mopping up diarrhea.
I was thinking the same ting
I have four moms. No dad. Six cats. Two big siblings. And a dog. Two different houses but still. Nothing like this lol.
1948? Women wearing pants. Not my mom. I don't think she ever owned a pair. EVER
A rare educational film where a family watches its own home movies.
weLL
Maury Povich and Jerry spring would have no room in TV in that era. Families might have been more stable than now.
What I get now is " I took the trash out yesterday, it's Joe's turn." Joe yells from downstairs " I'm right in the middle of an xbox game!"
Liar
Or they never hear!
That's on YOU. So why are you allowing your kids to get away with that? More worthless kids going to be worthless adults
Did anyone else wear Wonder bread sacks on their feet with their boots when playing in snow??
yup good memories flash backs oh
Fluffy is the best
This is the fastest family I've ever seen.
For all you foreigners out there: this life was only achieved by about half the population in this day, and about a third of the population now. I'm almost 40 and dream of not living in poverty. I'm an accomplished pilot, mechanic and builder, this is the current America: poverty and despair for even the most achieved.
It’s time to MAGA. Economic policies that support the citizens, not global elites.
Can we just note that it isn't even 6pm yet and the kids are supposed to being to bed soon? Like don't they have homework or something?
Yeah. I noticed that. Dinner, dishes, home movies and bed.
Apparently it's Friday and it isn't a school night, since the next day is a
Saturday, I presume.
He was playing outside before she stated cooking. Probably did his hookworm before then.
@@Kyiverdam Very interesting comment. I'd love to research that topic. Got any sources?
@@Kyiverdam Thanks!
Lovely
very nice
Thank you very much for all these helpful vids. Consider me subbed:).
that was the year I was born ! 1948
Lloyd Dailey - Amazing! My grandmother was just a year older. 1947.
Lloyd Dailey happy 79 years of living
2.1 guns on their way promised.
ditto
One odd thing I've noticed after watching (too many) of these old classroom films.
In the usual four person family (mom, dad, girl, boy), it's predominantly an older sister and a younger brother, far more often than random chance would dictate. Must have been some accepted reasoning for this among the people who made these films.
Prayers of thanks - thanks that two world wars, a depression, a deadly influenza epidemic and a dustbowl that at times that blocked out the sun even in Chicago are now a thing of the past. In 1948 people just wanted to be left alone.
Shouldn't Tony have washed his hands after scrubbing mud off the floor, and going straight to dinner prep? I guess that will be a lesson in another video on family hygiene?
He did.
Insightful.
Lol
He did
Does anyone else have the feeling that there was a problem with the original sound, and that's why the narrator has to do all the voices?
"Movies! Movies of us!"
Movies? How did they fit in that little -- OHHH, they're 16mm.
Sometimes I'm a bit dense XD
Pssst.......only "sometimes"???
8 MM
There are no family's like this anymore.
I wish that I could have lived then.
I did. Everything was scheduled in our heads Every kid was skinny. Never saw anyone overweight when I was a kid.
@@JillKirchner I had a cuzzin (called "Spider" when he was 3) who blew up to 100 pounds at about 6 or 7. 275 by the time he was 12. But everybody else was skinny. I weighed 47 pounds until I was about 9.
@@mikezylstra7514 cousin
@@inkystars19 they know how to spell it. it’s fine to use cuz or cuzzin
My Mom was 12 years old when this film was made. It’s interesting to see what the “ideal family” looked like at the time. It does seem like the family has been pretty sterilized. Even back then I would imagine that most families lives weren’t quite as perfect as this one.
🤣 “Mother is sorry…”
21st century translation: “Mom’s pissed!”.
I like the narrator's voice.
this is deep
Dang that’s a heck of a milk bottle!
Those days everyone had names except parents. You were either father or mother
We can still have those happy families days.eating together on the table. But in todays world is to hard to do.with each room with cable TV.
Love
My mother was a narcissistic psycho.....could not wait to leave home. I never ever saw such a family in my native France, backward patriarchal society
Goash I do remember and I could not skate my ankles were too weak then too all summer to get them normal again. I was the only one.
("Father, why aren't you in any of our family movies?) :P
maybe tony could turn the clocks back 1 hour when mother isn't looking that way they will have time to see the pictures
😂🤣😂
Don't almost have to. That hour hand is cocked out of whack as it is.
Ok. Year I was born. A very good year!!!
A very gay year for boys (from about Sept 20th to late December). .
The year my grandma was born 💖
Geesh. My grandma died in 1954.
They should try grub hub!
It wasnt around then.lol
Uber Eats too
Tony has a good head of hair.
Family has changed. Enjoy these videos.
Family has been practically destroyed.
Well that ship sailed.
That women's voice‼️😱 They must be on something....👨👩👧👦
This was alot like my family..good memories
Watch the movies, darn it! They're only 5 minutes long!
My family wasn't this wholesome but mom was a great cook.
The milk man delivered wholesome Pet milk daily to their home. That makes Tony have strong bones and teeth and imparts fear into Fluffy.
Frank: "Come on, I said play!" Servo: (crying) "Oh, daddy!"mst3k joke 😅
Tony should've washed his hands before shelling the peas after cleaning the muddy floor.
Yeah, I think I saw him scratch his ass.
The girl seems to have to do a lot more jobs than the boy. Favouritism. He is old enough to do just as much. The boy should have had to clean the floor anyway, it was HIS dog that made the mess when he came in from playing with him.
Sigh
When life was less complicated. At least for some.
calm, no yelling and screaming
“See a story” 😄
This is funny..a reel like that takes about 10 minutes to to show on a projector..we had one and had to splice each reel together to get a decent home movie.
He had his shoes under his boots!
That used to be quite common. They were called galoshes. Mostly used as rain boots.
@@christine6059 Thanks.
Galoshes, yeah. Rubbery things - women could get them to fit heels in transparent rubber. You weren't supposed to have to take your shoes off to wear them, part of the convenience - they just pulled on over shoes.
Wish I could find a pair now...
@@ppena4128 they sell rain boots at Walmart. Also. If your English or not there is a company called Wellington aka Wellies but there expensive.
Yeah. Boots (aka galoshes) went over shoes.
I thought mom was about to say Fluffy will be at the vets in the morning, had enough of the muddy thing
Me: I can help with the peas, Mother.
*walks peas to garbage can* DUMP!