Watch 1950s Teens Rebel Against Society's Rules
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lol "extremely tight skirt". Imagine if they saw yoga pants.
And Madonna with her bra, lol
They would die
“Nothing at all” x3
Nasty parents today, letting their kids run around in basically their underwear, one can only be lead to believe these parents must have no problem at looking at this children like that. Nasty.
Whenever i see a good looking woman in yoga pants or leggings its the absolute highlight of my day. Today it happened. Black woman with a 8/10 ass. Definetly walked by a little slower for that.
If any woman are reading this, wear those type of pants more often! It makes men happy.
It seems so funny that early rock and roll, which seems so innocent and squeaky-clean today, was once thought of as deeply subversive and rebellious. I wonder what modern things we'll think of like that in the future?
Hakajin marijuana
Fortnite is the modern equivalent, corrupting the minds of our youth apparently.
What is this Fortnite that you mention???
Hakajin I think the future generation might “shock” their parents by being squeaky clean. No alcohol, weed, dancing or swearing.
morradi10000 That could never happen because that stuff is ancient
It's amazing how every generation goes through the same things just wrapped in a different cultural perspective
Everything revolves it self....its 2019 ...50 years ago was 1969....oh how i wish to be there
Just nowadays they are stupid and lack the character.
ADHD Synth They’ve said the same thing in every generation.
This is an invention of the two wars that were to end civilisa5ion
Nothing new under the sun. It fluctuates but it remains similar.
How do you get an entire generation do something they normally would not?
*Make it illegal!*
@Channel not to mention he ain't talking like one...
@Independent doofus
Independent Shut up *Doomer*
Don't try to use logic on a moron.
How else do you think the government gets to steal everyone’s money and make their police quotas?
And later they all cut their hair, put on suits, and screwed their grandkids' futures.
Kat Mack Not these kids, these kids were the minority.
Kat Mack
That’s exactly what they did. Then, called their grandkids entitled. Lol
ManPursueExcellence it's easy to blame all boomers for the actions of others.
It was actually the people from the 70s and 80s. These people are dead or old af
Sadly
"Extremely tight skirt" hon that's mormon wear by today's standards
😂😂
🤣
as someone who grew up mormon, i can verify
"My soul....squeezed in the hydrolic press.....of eternity." LOL!!
Cheap Thrilll Hilarious.....
...He would have been totally emo if that was around those days lol.
Helo ... Zis is the hydoolic press channel, today ve vill be crushing a soul, very scary
+Ulek _ he would have been a pretentious douche if they existed back then
welkom to de hydroolik press chennel
One day my grandchildren will ask me what it was like growing up in the 2010s
@@tallen3020 ?
@@tallen3020 wtf lol
And? How does it feel to be alive in the most corrupt times and it will get even more corrupt :D
The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off. I worry about when a population becomes distracted by trivia, people who put junk culture on a pedestal when its a tool to distract for the people. Meanwhile, the face of our planet, the biosphere, is being sharply changed by man, destroyed by "psychopaths" corporations, people die every day and the world goes on like nothing happened.
The perfect dictatorship would have the appearance of democracy, a prison without walls in which the prisoners would not dream of escape. A system of slavery where, through consumption (Apple, Rolex, Nike, Johnnie Walker, Armani, Ferrari, Louis Vuitton...) and entertainment (Marvel, Disney, NFL, Star Wars, Adele, NBA, Pokemon GO, Game of Thrones, UEFA...), slaves would love their servitude (producing dictatorship without tears, a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies). That system is our enemy. It is all around us. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth (a prison that you cannot taste or see or touch, a prison for your mind).
This system organizes our economy, our politics, our habits, our lives, and even provides us with rates and credit cards and gives us the appearance of happiness. And this seems to be the final revolution. You've felt it your entire life, that there's something wrong with the world, but accepted as normal (wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it). Like everyone else you were born into bondage. It seems that we have been born only to consume and to consume, and when we can no longer consume, we have a feeling of frustration, and we suffer from poverty, and we are auto-marginalized. And many are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.That's how it is with people - nobody cares how it works as long as it works. I only hope we understand that reason before it's too late. Fact is that when we are mesmerized by someone (corporations) we lose all sense of analysis and reflection.
@@wiolantsungazer7665 everything you're saying is cliches and existential bullshit from the 70s
@@wiolantsungazer7665 Shut up
My grandpa was a greaser in the 50s. Such a cool counter culture
Bless the Mexicans who inspired it.
Late 70s early 80s punk culture was better
@@ericks9979 it's not a damn competition I hate that shit man they all influenced each other over time in one way or another
@@bellarose1562 meh i really like punk rock. Didnt mean to upset anybody. Also the scene during that time was much more interesting imo. So much variety in punk alone.
CarbonQuellist | It was actually the italians, give us credit when credits due
My private catholic school had banned a bunch of classic novels, and my amazing English teacher snuck them in, had us read them, and taught us their messages anyways. She was the coolest, probably could have lost her job for us.
What novels were they?
English teachers tend to be cool like that.
@@Juicegoose9310 A search for 'Wizard of Oz banned' produces a long list of reasons why it was banned, but does not mention communism. This was from my personal recollection; when I was about 8 years old (1956), my dad went to the San Jose library and was told that by the librarian. He said the Munchkins had a communistic society.
@Olivia SUN It used the word 'damn'. We kids made up a joke. We went on a hike to the dam. It was hot and we got thirsty, so we asked the dam man if we could drink some of the dam water. He said "You can drink all the dam water you want." We didn't have anything to drink the dam water with, so he gave us dam cups so we could drink the dam water.
aeromodeller1 lol
My mother was born in 1929 she would tell her children how things changed though the years. She always told us the 1950 was the best time in her life my mother had twelve children she passed away in 2017 she lived a long life I miss her telling me about the past!
Ah so. Could you imagine being a proper Victorian woman? And then having your daughter or daughters being wild flapper girls? History repeats.
they made a movie called Bernice gets a bob" lol oh she was a loose one for cutting her hair that short! hah flapperlife
Before there was the Beatles, there was Elvis (and before there was Elvis there was Little Richard).
Before there were hippies there were beatniks.
Before Ken Kesey and Timothy Leary there were Jack Kerouac and Alan Ginsberg.
The Sixties gets the glory, but you couldn't have the Sixties without the Fifties.
Whoa hey MR. X, you cut off in mid-sentence! I want more. If Bohemians pre-date hippies, beatniks, and hipsters, then I need to look them up.
Sailor Barsoom how can you forget Michael
@@purpleyou4963
Oh, uh... I didn't forget Michael. We, um, we had lunch just the other day......
Sorry, but there are a lot of Michaels. I'm afraid I don't know which one you are talking about. Nesmith?
Don't forget the Roaring 20's
@@xandrine7603
That's right!
A time of repression and rebellion.
Prohibition and speakeasies.
Flappers!
"That's wild?"
Rockabilly is wild?
Someone from 1959 would probably die of shock if they somehow landed straight in 2019.
If we could go back in time and show them that Cardi B twerk video, they'd definitely die of shock
The first thing they'd say is, "You elected THAT guy President??? Get me TF outa here!!!"
Jeff C no they would be more surprised about the crazy liberals
The problem is most people think that is cool. It is not however. We need to get back to that
Iooking at some album covers of modern bands would probably give them a heart attack
It’s crazy the difference between rock and roll in the 50s and the Rock music in the 80’s
Yes in my opinion Rock 'N Roll and Rock are two different things
@@aydenaplara2309
America invented Rock n roll,England told them how to play it...
So basically Elvis Presley was the Eminem of rock and roll
Lily parmida Parmida not all, Elvis was famous for performing music written by regular folk that the record companies wanted to make money on. Elvis was quickly accepted for being a good wholesome white guy who made singing on stage look fun. Eminem actual made his own music per se. Also, he wasn’t quickly accepted in his culture for being white.
Eminem even said as much in a song.
@@_Greasyzoku_ He was popular with the white kids just like Elvis was.
Yep, they both stole their music from black ppl
@@SebastianClips Anyway, white people invented Metal in 1969, and it was called Black Sabbath - led by Ozzy Osbourne, a god himself that's still kicking ass today at over 70 years old.
1950’s: Elvis is corrupting the youth
2019: *God Has Left The Chat*
John Johnson . Exactly and we’re all poorer because of it
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
2020: Defund the police!
God is for dummies.
@@ERTChimpanzee You're on it, although Martin Luther would prefer to believe a (not entirely sure which one he'd like to credit because there have been quite a few) God (🤣) was responsible, without a shred of evidence over the perfectly reasonable RNA theory.....and it's 2021. Wow.
"See, grandpa used to be cool."
I am extremely grateful for that generation... thank you for the music and the disobedience.
Ok boomer, thanks for destroying all the good traditions and leaving gen z fucked, absolutely fucked, they’ll be a rebellion against the degeneracy you created, degeneracy now runs the institutions, so there’s going to be a revolution back to some traditional values, it’s chaos and order, happens in every civilisation, societal decay and then society order, and it repeats forever
"Rules are for squares man!"
SpongeBob is triggered
and school is for fish!
Right on Dadee-o
Timmy's dad: "like pants"
“If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun” ~ Katharine Hepburn
This really puts things into perspective, nowadays we think of this music as classic rock and mostly older people listen to it, and they're calling the new music bad.
My mom was actually a nun then left the convent and married my dad he was in the service , my mom and dad didn't even smoke or drink,,, mom left the convent a RN , she and dad paid the convent back and dad went to Officer Candidate school..mom died last year and dad is broken hearted,, married 56 years,,, dad still goes to church every week,, ,, it's been a sad year, , I guess they were squares but I think they were lovely..dad retired a full colonel and was spit at when he arrived home from Vietnam, ..he is my hero,,, still dosen't smoke or drink and I was lucky to have a good dad and mom,,, and they had 8 kids and we all have college degrees,,,
PrayersnLuv 👼👼🥰🥰💝💝🙏🙏✝️ ✝️
Don’t call them “squares” because they went to church every day. That’s the definition of a proud, pious man. And the day is coming soon when being a good Catholic who goes to church every Sunday will make me a rebel, an outlaw and the most un-square thing you can imagine. It has always been the case for those that not only go to church, but believe the Faith to the death.
Great story. Write it down
All these 50s documentaries are really helping me understand the time and my AP U.S. History class a hell of a lot better.
I wish I could go back in time and be the first person to ask, “You dig?”.
But some caveman must’ve said that back in the day first 🤣🤣
Like the troglodyte that 1st said "sock it to me!"
The 50s and 80s were the true rebellious decades
The 60s and 70s fell somewhere in between
And the 90s complete the journey 😂😂😂
Back then, rock and roll was a shock to older generations and seemed so wild and immoral, now it's funny because we have mumble rappers talking about sex, drugs, hustling, girls, and even more "taboo" topics in the mainstream media, which is inherently the same concept as what rock and roll music was at the time, and mainstream music seems to continue repeating same patterns of that specific subject matter. (perhaps minus the explicit flaunting of drug-use and extreme taboos that we hear so often in songs today.) Now when we look back at rock and roll it seems so tame, even though it was deemed rebellious and "edgy" at the time, so I wonder in 50 years, what could possibly become more explicit than mumble rap and the music in the indie/mainstream scene that we have today? Will people listen to mumble rap and think "haha, these songs were so innocent, it's funny how people thought this music was a bad influence on kids." It really boggles my mind.
Hopefully we wise up, or we will wise up before then in 2068, 50 years from now.
annie mei today’s taboo is breaking ideologies
I disagree, party and brag rap has been in the mainstream since the early 90s, before I was born, we just don't look back on it fondly and remember the good rap that came such as 2pac NWA etc, mumble rappers aren't doing anything new except for mumbling so don't be fooled into thinking all music was better in the older days. Vanilla ice doesn't seem so innocent in this day and age
So true
@@johnjoefitzpatrick8483 Same. If you consider it rock n' roll, metal can't seem to go more brutal than it went in the 90's.
I'm going to say hip-hop and pop music can go more sexually explicit, though. We have yet to see a female nipple in a music video, I think that's the next step; and after that, who's to say how far it will go. Maybe my grandkids will get their hardcore porn from mainstream pop music.
"Extremely tight skirt"
Boy the times have changed
We felt what our parents suppressed.We were pressured to express it.They were not prepared to see us all go off script at once.
They banned them, because they remember what they did at night was... Inappropriate.
Little Richard is the epitome os BAD-ASS.
G.C. Lawrence RIP Little Richard.
Don’t overlook Chuck Berry. He was a super talent. A one-man show who could do it all. Check out some of his TH-cam performances
Good doc. I grew up in the 80's as a kid listening to 50's rock.
Aestro Ai I grew up in the 2000’s listening to 80’s rock
How innocent they all seem. If only we could have shown them a glimpse of what was to come. Good and the bad.
So thankful I didn't have to live in the 1950's! Who wouldn't rebel?? Even many of their parents and grandparents had more fun in the 1920's! My Great Grandma was a flapper so there was no way she was going to be that strict with my grandma it would've been super hypocritical, it's really amazing how quickly older people forget they were once young and forget everything they did back then! I'm going to always be conscious of that because I can't stand busybody old people and I never want to be one of them! Reasonable old people who still have a sense of fun are awesome though!
when you're kids and grand kids rebel against you, remember that you said that.
@@justinm4497 All kids rebel in some way or another, it's part of dealing with certain stages of brain development. As long as they are raised well and don't feel suffocated by their parents they'll only rebel in relatively harmless ways that their parents end up looking back on and laughing about later. All my friends with very strict parents were angry and resentful of their parents and rebelled by dropping out of school, getting into hard drugs, shoplifting, getting pregnant, getting into fistfights constantly, developing and hiding an eating disorder, self-harming and never trusting their parents enough to tell them that they need help, bullying other kids out of frustration etc.
I had understanding parents who gave me an appropriate amount of freedom for a teenager so I really had nothing to rebel against to begin with! If I wanted to go to a party I'd just ask because I knew my parents trusted me and wouldn't freak out about it, I never HAD to sneak out, so I didn't, and my parents always knew where I was because they gave me that trust. I didn't date until I was 18 in the last few weeks of high school because I saw anything that wasn't meaningful to be a waste of time and I had nothing to prove, I'm still with him nearly 5 years later! If I did get myself into a bit of trouble I never felt like I needed to hide it and I felt like I could come to my parents for help because I knew they wouldn't blow it out of proportion, many of my friends were not so lucky and were TERRIFIED to go to their strict parents with their problems! The fact of life is that those overly strict parents who restrict and suffocate their kids often create the MOST rebellious and messed up kids.
Being overly strict and controlling with a teenager just tells them that you are insecure in your ability to parent them reasonably and that you are afraid of what they will do because you refuse to see them as people and instead see them as out of control animals that need a leash, this would offend anyone! Just because someone is a teenager doesn't mean it's okay to treat them like a criminal before they've done anything wrong and to put a bunch of unnecessary restrictions on their life. All of that just makes the teenager angry and distrustful of their parents so guess what? They rebel!
yes yes, plan away, your kids will be exactly the way you plan them.
@@justinm4497 It seems like you didn't want a conversation, you just wanted someone younger than you to lash out at and project your issues onto for some reason. I hope you can get past this strange urge in the future, happy new year!
KaylaNoelle1
I snuck out of my bedroom window to go party. When I got back at 5:30 the window was nailed shut. At 7:30 my mom invited me in and fixed breakfast. Never that day did she say anything about it. Or ever. I’ve waited 40 years to get bitched at. The mental torture kept me from ever doing that again. Guess we all rebel in our own way.
Rock and Roll used to be more innocent.
cliz305 Respectfully disagree. It was always about the same things since the beginning.
Do I like it more? You bet.
In what universe?
Mark Denman Conservativism is not now, nor will it ever, be counterculture. It literally exists to hold on to outdated unnecessary values of society.
Mark Denman ew conservatives and liberals will never be the rebellion
Chuck Berry was a great guy who did nothing wrong lmfao
I just love the music, the moves and the clothes of the 50s! ❤️
Thanks, David!
that's what they call rebellious in the 50s ?! man , just imagine what they think of us teens now 😭 .
Little Richard! We loved him.. never got so excited to see the others as much as him...maybe it was the whole package.. hair, clothes, body language, style and the beat, electricity and FREEDOM of expression we simply weren't allowed. For many of us, he invented Rock and Roll and will always be number one.
The best thing from the 50s was the music, plus, the blue denim jeans and the leather jackets.
My grandfather was a Zoot Suiter from Santa Ana CA. Still got old pics of him and my grandmother when they were young. My grandfather was crippled by the marines during the LA Riots. But regretted nothing in his life's journey.
The same parents who complaint about Rock and Roll was the ones who danced to Jazz and the Charleston during the 1920s in their youth who the older generation who viewed it negatively.
And now kids listen to Rap and it nauseates the parents and I love it!!! fuck Rock & Roll!!
Lol it’s one thing when the communists in my parents’ country blamed rock and roll on capitalism’s influence, but the fact that in America they blamed rock and roll on communism, that’s insane. Blame McDonald’s on communism too while you’re at it.
5:01 Casey neistat
I was like damn that's Casey's grandpa lmao
I'd know those ears from miles away xD
Lmfaoo
You beat me to the joke, haha.
😂 your too much
The 1950s did the heavy lifting, the 70s made it come to fruition. But the 60s took all of the credit.
"Balance" is what was needed. My parents were beyond words Strict about EVERYTHING! Me and my friends went TOTALLY overboard the other way! NEITHER was Good... Somewhere in between ...is just a place we never found.
@@1963kungfupanda Yep! I was originally talking about 50 years ago! I have long since found the balance that was lacking in the '60s. Sounds like you have, too! Good deal! God Bless You!
Oh how we never learn... I wonder what "new age" ideas I'm gonna have a hard time accepting in my old age before I remember that my parents were so confused towards my messy pink hair.
My future kids will never understand how badly I wanted a flip phone when I was in 2nd grade.
They werent confused just thought you looked ridiculous and wondered where they went wrong raising you
@@jayqueue6784 they thought the same thing about people with long hair as well. People always clutch their Pearl's. Just ignore them.
People will still be confused about your pink hair in your grandkids time too.
@@ILovePancakes24 people are confused about those ugly looking bell bottoms, from the 70s, the excessive body hair as well. The weird chipper attidutes of the 50s. How swaying your hips barely is somehow corrupting, and they were censored for swaying your hips. Every decade has their stupid shit. Or the excessive hair spray from the 80s.
Pampered, soft because of the prosperity their parents earned
And you except everyone to suffer the same way who cares how pathetic
Is that one of their poems?
The only thing that Boomers and Gen Z agree on.
The Greatest Generation is truly the greatest generation.
Coleman, Salinger, hertzberg, Klein. The list just keeps on going. Revolutionary spirit.
That is sad people were concerned about rock n roll cause of black people. As soon as Elvis came in they were like this is right
RichieRichLux people are the same way about hip hop rn
its like that with music today, you have adelle, sam smith, all sounding black african but are white and rack in the millions
@@spinner771 no it just proves racism, white people only want to see white people
maxwell adams not true in the slightest.
Not true. When they saw Elvis on TV they wanted there kids to stop listening to Elvis because of his hips don't lie ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Heck a lot of parents were against The Beatles because they though their kids would become sex crazed zombies listening to that devil music.
This is a segment of the PBS multiple-episode documentary Making Sense of the Sixties, first aired in January 1991. Many viewers recall the female narrator and her connection to Dawn Rogers, an employee of Duvall Printing in Harford County, Maryland. [new paragraph]
Many viewers of the documentary also recall that the original telecasts coincided with Operation Desert Storm.
All true. I made that series and am very proud of it. There are many clips from it on my TH-cam channel and I have given links to see the entire series to my patrons and members of the David Hoffman TH-cam community.
David Hoffman filmmaker
"Life is real, life is earnest, if you're cold, turn up the furnace!" Herman Munster
The fact that being a teen in the 50s and smoking cigarettes was normal😭. no wonder half of our grandparents and great grandparents suffer with so much now.
My parents have lung problems and my uncle died from lung cancer, so yeah
The youth has always been this way .. The hairstyles, Clothes, & the Lingo all changes, but the overall morale of the youth doesn't in my opinion.
I like how you’re showing the truth about rock and roll.
I love the poetry with the circle of Beatniks. That was hilarious.
Now anything considered Conservative is banned.
Thank god
Mary Takaoka, are you referencing something within a particular nation/set of nations, if so, what nation(s)? Also, are you referring to societally perpetuated ostracization, state mandated "banning", corporate censorship, or something else/some combination of factors?
So far from the truth it's funny
In the 20s it was jazz, the 50s it was rock and roll, today its rap
thank you for uploading all these!
I appreciate your work. Might've seen it, since it grew up on pbs woo
You do amazing work, David!!!
Woah! I just watched this video yesterday and learned about Little Richard for the first time (of course I heard about him but didn’t know anything). He died today! RIP.
My soul squeezed in a hydraulic press of eternal drip drip drip...that man could clearly express his feeling
I thought all the rebellion didn't start until the 60's
that was the era I was born and lived in. so to me,
the 40's & 50's were my parents time, and I never experienced it :)
I was in the arrow tip generation that first had to live in the society that these brats demanded. It was hell. These people NEVER had to live in the broken world they created - they are old people who still don't have to live in it. It makes me sick to my stomach to see this generation lauded.
Can you elaborate? What exactly is it that you dont like?
LMFAO can u imagine these people’s reactions if they heard heavy metal
No! Eminem! LOL! they'd have strokes if they heard his music! hahahahaha!!! lol
catcher in the rye is a masterpiece
Rock n roll came from Gospel music. It's not sinful at all, unless you twist everything around. It's in your nature to enjoy church, you all just don't know it.
it used to be good until it got degenerate
Rock & Roll is sinful inasmuch as human sexuality is sinful.
In my opinion it came from blues more than gospel
It's amazing how music can change within half century the music of 50s 60s are nothing like the music we listen to in 2000s 2010s we are in autotune era
Then you're not listening to the good music of today. We've been getting great authentic bands today who are perfectly able to mix classic rock with modern twists. I don't know why everyone is so eager to look down on to today's music and then refer to only the pop music on the radio.
Exactly!!!! I agree completely! It's just good music is hard to find these days ya know.but if you here complaining how music ain't good these days then you ain't even trying.
Couldn't agree more. I often wonder what people mean when they say "Real Music™". Often you'll get The same 5 few bands. They're great and all but if people get stuck with the same artists, taste will never evolve. Most people with the opinion that we live in the autotune era (um, okay, that's 2007) have taken a cursory glance at music today and have based their opinion on Top 40 which...isn't very fair. There's been garbage on Top 40 for ages.
It's like nobody in this thread even watched the video lmao. You're not exactly wrong, but its not like there is less music in the world, there objectively isnt. you are objectively going to find more music to enjoy today than you would 10 years ago because more music exists. Radio has always been trash.
I agree..It's a case of who can we handpick, mould to our taste ,turn into a teen idol & dupe the public with the thought that they're singers & make money off of them..then throw them away....the 50s were highly conservative,so anything that threatened the parents 'life style was feared and hated...not only by the parents , but also by the educatirs & the religious leaders.
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I’ve been over here watching all of here old videos for the past like 2 hours
I guess it is true, history does repeat itself. The rock generation now accuses rap of the same thing that they’re parents thought of rock
Dont try to compare rock to rap.. gross. Rap sucks and glorifies having baby mamas, drugs, murder, etc.
Umar Virk Yeah some older rap was okay I guess.. not my taste though. But Im talking about the rap nowadays, a whole abomination 🤢 It doesn’t even sound good either a lot of them sound like robots with the same repetitive beats, and as previously mentioned , rap don’t even spread a good message. I could understand how teens like it though cause it’s “edgy” but the music just sucks
Umar knows nothing about rock n roll. Obviously he's never listened to Shake, Rattle, and Roll, Work with Me, Annie, or Stagger Lee. Those are only the tame songs people in the modern era think their parents listen to. There are plenty of popular songs about sex and violence in early rock n roll that history has erased.
Umar Virk Tell me, which decade where you born in? As it can show a clear indicator of your beliefs and influences.
Umar Virk Why did you get critical of music from 2015 and beyond? Was it from explicit language and was it just pop in general?
i wish i couldve grown up during this time with todays knowledge. so simple,. nice and clean..good food and air. perfect time to be a hermit and enjoy things.
Definitely not good air!!!! Look at photos taken in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, New York, etc and you can barely see past 2 blocks due to the pollution! Especially from COAL!!! Factories, etc! With deregulating pollution you'll see and feel the affects of pollution pretty soon 😭😭😭😭
This one of the best documentaries ever
It was at this moment we all f*cked up.
I remember my parents were accepting of my rebellious youth, they just shrugged their shoulder and rolled with it back then. Then many years later I came across some old black and white photos from the late 30's or early 40's of my mother wearing a pleated skirt above her knees, platform shoes and a waist length fur jacket, with my father striking a pose next to her in a zuit suit with a long watch chain and a fedora, with a cigarette in his mouth holding a bottle of beer .....and I understood why. 😀
the 40s were more liberal than the 50s, then the 60s were more liberal than the 50s, then the 70s came along with puke yellow, orange and green, then the 80s/90s were the only two decades I can remember reading through history (I lived through them) that were pretty much continuity with little to no war or societal/political strife. Maybe ancient Rome had a two or three decade run during its time of continuity and prosperity, but I think at least as the West is concerned especially US/Canada were the only two nations to actually experience the continuity and 'normalcy' of the 80s/90s.....
@@realmichaud why do you say Ancient Rome only had 2 or 3 decades of continuity and prosperity?
And here we have the first goths
you're a couple hundreds of years late. The Goths lived from the 4th-6th century AD.
@@CoryMck And they sacked ROME, lads!
@@Khymeira Good. There ""democracy"" was fake, classist and elitist.
@@CoryMck yeah cause the middle ages were SOOO much better right? Do even think before you write something?
@@Juicegoose9310
If the system was good, it wouldn't have mattered who the leader was.
"one of the most successful empires..." Success is subjective and isn't quantifiable, that's a non-argument.
"then you are clearly uneducated"
no u
Thank you I enjoyed it
Be nice to know when this video was made. - Looked it up - 1991.
Born in 1956, I was able to grow within these changes that were taking place, and even as a child I could see this beginning to manifest onto the generations along with the new era being ushered in, and it WAS stuffy, and confining trying to live within these boundaries after the horrors of WWII, so when the fifties came and you saw a rebeller it emboldened your spirit even if you didn't act upon it, But then, SEEING it on TV, the officially accepted device of America, with Elvis swinging his hips while being shown from the chest up and singing raucous music blowed the doors open because even little children knew why his dancing was censored and that it had a bonafide sexual suggestion to it,..then the sixties came and the new twist came from England, and as a child around eight I was disgusted how the girls on the Ed Sullivan were squealing and screaming so loud you couldn't even hear them play, which made me NOT like the Beatles JUST because of that.
I lived in the fifties and sixties and we were real conservative in the 50s and then in the sixties went to the other extreme and became immoral and just terrible...I think just because our parents were strict and you must obey the rules didn't mean they ever taught us how to make wise decisions...
You are a VITAL DOCUMENTARIAN. Your work is not lost on fools.....it is going to last for a long time.
Thank you for this channel.
thank you for your kind words.
David Hoffman-filmmaker
this was even before the hippie counterculture
It was probably a reaction against the overly and maybe somewhat unreasonable stringent attitudes of the time. The reaction had some positive effects and some negative effects. Overall, more negative than positive, that's the nature of rebellion.
Robert Klein always nails it
My grandparents both were born in 1940
These were they’re times . Bunch of rebels
In their late teens when rock came out
In the '50s, rock and roll was a means to defy social conformity. Now, we all conform by listening to rock and roll.
Wow I watched this in guidance class in 1976. lol. good times
Are they smoking weed and reciting bad poetry to each other? lmaoooo
I wanna be a beatnik now.
This is brilliant. I’m trying to pick out spikes of today’s movements and how they reflect the past
Love this so much
Can you imagine a time when music was a powerful social element that would send shockwaves through an entire society?
EbonyPope
Yea...RIGHT NOW
@Martin Luther oh okay yeah cool
And Elvis came along and gave us rock and roll that's white lmao!!!
He loved and paid all kinds of tribute to his African American predecessors.
brightbite who’s that?
Blume des Chaos
Shh, we’re going to have people who are going to claim Eminem was the first rapper.
Long before Elvis Europeans and Americans were embracing
Rag-Time and Jazz music. Some were also embracing
Socialism, so-called "Free-Love", etc.
ricky wagner That is 💯 false sir. Lmao
man I never snapped my fingers so hard til that rock n roll came out
One of the best documentaries of the 60's made. I still continually have to ask, what happened to my generation? I am still a rebel in some ways ✌The Squares lost back then and they will not win now
Yikes! I watched a bunch of kids walking home from the same hs I graduated from in ‘75. They were wearing short, cut off jeans and tank tops! And to think I got in trouble once for wearing too tight jeans!!! And too much makeup!!!
Never really understood the 50s, Way, Before my time. But I get it now. I don't think it was the original message of rebellion. How then do you explain the Roaring 20s? It was a time of Gin and Dance and Ladies Dresses were far more revealing and stylish. And Short! Oh the fun they had. Wish I was a fly on the wall。 💖
Teenagers have always rebelled against adult culture. The difference for the 50's & 60's was that America's postwar economic boom put more money to spend in the pockets of teenagers. So we (I was there) made a bigger splash in the media of the time.
drugs were otc then
Old people are bitter, thats why baby boomers complain about millenials alot
@@saggyt5496 not all 71 million American baby boomers are bitter.
The 20s was a societal rebellion. The 50s-60s was a youth rebellion.
From "rebels" to The Man. Great job guys. Guess we'll have to try again.
I don't remember the Fifties too much. I was too busy in college in the first half and being a naval officer in the second half, but I do remember the young upstart named Elvis Presley.
As a nonconformist myself, its hard to navigate through society. But this is very inspiring!
Yes, you nonconformists can all be different together. What an ironic situation that is, no?
@@Dominus_Regum Better than being all the same together.
As a conformist and a person thats constantly desperately trying to fit in but still fails miserably i cannot relate to any of these.
When my grandmother was in highschool, she got sent home multiple times for wearing shorts.
History really repeats itself.
Fascinating.