Umm, why's everyone so mad about the actor being a little older than his character? Even the bad acting or poor quality doesn't matter. These films are interesting to watch because they feel like traveling back in time.
Not mad. Making fun and joking about it. It would be like you watching a show on gen y or z and they show 50 yr olds around a funnel chanting “chug, chug” and doing keg stands and taking constant selfies on Snapchat. Making duck lip faces and putting their hands on their waist and sticking their elbow out to make themselves think they’re looking skinnier. A bunch of 50-year-old Twerking and sagging their pants trust me You’d have to laugh too and make fun of it.
And you can actually learn something! I learned what "personality" really means thanks to one of these, and it definitely means far more than only 'the things you like,' which is something they tell you in many websites.
Doug's old man was not being tough on his son!? I think his old man already knew what Doug, a high school drop out, have in store as a careerist unskilled manual laborer?! Years ago when I graduated from high school, I told my father I was thinking about skipping my first semester that upcoming Fall term to work full time to experience some form of independence in the job market. My old man, who never completed beyond an eight-grade education, was like "ooh no you're not doing that, go straight to college and get your freaking degree...!" I went on to get my doctorate! Education is the Key in Life, Doug!
My father and I had a similar conversation. I recall telling him I wasn’t interested in college. I had been working off and on since I was 16. He made it clear that I was going to college. And looking back I am so grateful for that.
I like how in the beginning it’s uptempo like the beginning of a new life and lT seems he made the right choice..but as the story starts to unfold..the reality is starting to set in and the music goes from uptempo to dark..it really made this little film good..
Stay in school and get your degree..it goes beyond high school diploma now.. I am a RN and entry level for RN’s will soon be a docterate...i have a masters degree and in 10 years that may not be enough...i am very grateful my parents encouraged me to get my degree..my brothers and sisters the same
Now the trend is to the Trades. Electrician/journeyman, plumbing, welding, etc. I have a college degree and make $48,000 a year. It took several years for me to pay off my student loans. My son went to a two year trade school for Geomatics. It was reasonable enough that we were able to pay cash. His schooling cost $9,000. He is now a land surveyor making $63,000 per year. My neighbor is in HVAC and he is making $102,000 a year!!!!
Yep. But if you dont have a diploma or GED, you aint got squat. It looks like this was filmed before they had GEDs. So if you didnt go back to highschool, you were screwd. Military wont take you without a deploma. My pop made me promise if I did anything first, it would be finish high school.
WTF are you on about? Three years post-comment and nurses are in desperate need. There will be no additional education requirement for nurses any time soon. Same for teachers. You might want to take a basic spelling class though so you don’t misspell doctorate again. Nostradamus you are not.
I wish I saw this at 16 started final year in the September dropped out in the December, this is England they don't like kids repeating years!!. To any kids grasp the chances you have its a tough world.
If you have the opportunity, stay in school! Or both work and school part time. My Mom couldn’t finish high school back in the late 1930’s. Her income was needed to help the family pay for the basics, housing, food, clothing, and there was medical debt from an emergency surgery. She finished 10th grade and went to work in a lace factory.
I think around the early 1960 the WW2 Economy boom was waning and was one of the two issues in the 1960's Presidential Campaign including tax cuts on both candidates to keep it going.
So true! I was 12 my older brother 16 He got a summer job at one of the two steel mills in my city and made more than he did the first year he was a law clerk! 😂
@@michaelkline884 Lots of plumbers and electricians make more than lots of college graduates...and without the student loan debt. The trick is to obtain marketable skills in the era you're living in. It's always been that way.
Your mom and me hate to see you grow up so fast. You're only 30 and you think it's ok to live on your own. Most kids your age want to wait till they're 40 to be independent.
I finished high school...half a year early cuz i hated school, even though i did well at it. No college or anything though. I considered it at first, but my parents just laughed at me and said if i could pay for it, i could go. I didn't want it that badly!Back then (late '70's) there were still lots of entry level jobs, many of which have now disappeared. Over my life I have worked for short times for others, but most of my life I have been self employed.
I was sick of school in 2nd grade. But wound up doing 10 yrs of college. This boy shoulda stayed in school and went to dental school. If I could tolerate organic chemistry and comparative anatomy (and get good grades in it) anybody can.
Barry Primus was doing a lot of New York theater and he is quite good with the so so script. Later he did lots movies, TV etc. and ended up a director. .
I got a diploma in 1979, I worked from 1981- 2022. Before that I worked on the YWEP ( Youth Work Experience Program) from age 14 , 1974 til I was 19 in 1979. To me finding work was no problem. I retired at age 60 in 2022.
The rhetoric as if the last two years of high school are vital is hilarious when these days a bachelor's degree is regarded as one step above having been raised by wolves. In a sane world education would be made better rather than longer.
It works out for some. Those of us who are lucky and are in the right place at the right time. But not everyone who leaves school is nearly as lucky. As a drop-out myself, my personal advice to students would be to finish school.
Higher education was always about knowledge. That's why Harvard calls MIT "that trade school up the road." I was a double major of English and Art, and everyone asked me 'what I was going to DO with it.'
So funny - I hadn't noticed until this comment! My mom's brother had a foldout bed in the hallway - he hasn't done badly for himself and I believe he went to post-secondary!
1957 +5 =1962 How old is BRODY RAYMOND BELDA now, in 2024? Last June or July:: "What Are You DOING?" right at ME, when I was watering all the ROSES at my older Brother's residence. The BELDA'S were next door and the Garden of ROSES edged both Residences. When BRODY had asked, I couldn't see him. Bu back then in 1962 , 5 year old ALBERT saw, against the upper Maplewood Estate basement's side window this Unknown Ol' Man watering with this Hose the ROSES and BRODY as well?
In those days only boys wore the letter jackets? They are now stylish for boys and girls, adults wear them also, similar to the sleeveless jackets or jeans popular with many nowadays..
Boys who played sports were issued letter jackets to symbolise their sport. There were no or very few girls' teams then, so a girl only got to wear her boyfriend's jacket.
This is a perfect example of that old adage that youth is wasted on the young . Why are they trying to make us feel sorry for him. He deseves no sympathy.
If life were only still that carefree. Now, we have to choose between working and possibly getting sick and possibly dying in a global pandemic or being unemployed and hopefully live. We have people protesting with military style weapons because they want the freedom to get the rest of us sick. The economy hasn’t been this bad since the Great Depression. My mom never seems to understand when I explain to her how easy her life was. I have had a job since I was 14. She was a spoiled baby boomer. Now she has Alzheimer’s and can be even way more selfish, but sad.
I am so sad that you are watching the news that you are watching. You are being manipulated by a media that manipulates their news stories as easily as they do people. So much so that they were successfully sued for millions of dollars and lost. There is much more out there than what you choose to view.
When the greaser asked for cigarettes, i thought he was going to be a part of some sort of gang 😂😂😂 the tension was insane
He's on the track to nowheresville, man!
I'm so glad I discovered this channel. This stuff is gold.
Umm, why's everyone so mad about the actor being a little older than his character?
Even the bad acting or poor quality doesn't matter. These films are interesting to watch because they feel like traveling back in time.
Yes! I agree.
Llmmaa00
Not mad. Making fun and joking about it.
It would be like you watching a show on gen y or z and they show 50 yr olds around a funnel chanting “chug, chug” and doing keg stands and taking constant selfies on Snapchat. Making duck lip faces and putting their hands on their waist and sticking their elbow out to make themselves think they’re looking skinnier.
A bunch of 50-year-old Twerking and sagging their pants trust me You’d have to laugh too and make fun of it.
@@cottoncandiez8872 there's a few down at the bottom which were up in the top when I wrote the comment
And you can actually learn something! I learned what "personality" really means thanks to one of these, and it definitely means far more than only 'the things you like,' which is something they tell you in many websites.
😇😍😍😍👌🏼👌🏼LOVIN THESE OLD CLIPS!!!! 💞🇺🇸💞👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Same.
Doug's old man was not being tough on his son!? I think his old man already knew what Doug, a high school drop out, have in store as a careerist unskilled manual laborer?! Years ago when I graduated from high school, I told my father I was thinking about skipping my first semester that upcoming Fall term to work full time to experience some form of independence in the job market. My old man, who never completed beyond an eight-grade education, was like "ooh no you're not doing that, go straight to college and get your freaking degree...!" I went on to get my doctorate! Education is the Key in Life, Doug!
My father and I had a similar conversation. I recall telling him I wasn’t interested in college. I had been working off and on since I was 16. He made it clear that I was going to college. And looking back I am so grateful for that.
In your 20s, this is what's known as "wandering the desert." From crap job to crap job, with nothing big on the horizon. 😩
Wait till Doug gets the letter from the Draft Board. Goooood morning Vietnam!
Enjoy being a “kid” for as long as possible, once it’s over it is over.
No, if you play it right you can be a "kid" your whole life, provided you use the adult tools of responsibility and accountability.
@@kelseymathias3881 You can act like a man-child all you want, but society at large will not condone that. As the kids say today. "No Cap, Bro." 🧢
@@edwardgaines6561 I'm an old lady who's still enjoying life, and hope you are too. Best wishes.
This is the kind of film that would scare me into staying in school.
That's it's whole point.
It makes me want to go back to high school and I'm in my sixties.
Scaring kids into staying in school was the point.
@@sharonh2991 Some "educated" people with a bunch of degrees can lack common sense, honesty, and drive.
@@poetcomic1 Did you go back to school, 2 years later?
The acting is actually pretty good and the jazz in between scenes is cool.
I like how in the beginning it’s uptempo like the beginning of a new life and lT seems he made the right choice..but as the story starts to unfold..the reality is starting to set in and the music goes from uptempo to dark..it really made this little film good..
Bring back counter food at Woolworths...heck, bring back Woolworths!
Cindy Lam yes, please!
Montgomery/Wards
I miss that!!
F W Woolworth had the best BLT sandwiches! I miss going there on Saturdays!
YES‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️👑
Wait.. in the end, did Doug go back? Or was he just taking a look at the other students lol. I wasn't quite sure because he didn't go inside.
That father is so sweet.
That last scene where he asked him to come back with him. Wow powerful. A true friend
This was really fun to watch....a trip back in time! 👍
I love this one!!
Stay in school and get your degree..it goes beyond high school diploma now.. I am a RN and entry level for RN’s will soon be a docterate...i have a masters degree and in 10 years that may not be enough...i am very grateful my parents encouraged me to get my degree..my brothers and sisters the same
Now the trend is to the Trades. Electrician/journeyman, plumbing, welding, etc. I have a college degree and make $48,000 a year. It took several years for me to pay off my student loans. My son went to a two year trade school for Geomatics. It was reasonable enough that we were able to pay cash. His schooling cost $9,000. He is now a land surveyor making $63,000 per year. My neighbor is in HVAC and he is making $102,000 a year!!!!
Yep. But if you dont have a diploma or GED, you aint got squat.
It looks like this was filmed before they had GEDs. So if you didnt go back to highschool, you were screwd. Military wont take you without a deploma. My pop made me promise if I did anything first, it would be finish high school.
WTF are you on about? Three years post-comment and nurses are in desperate need. There will be no additional education requirement for nurses any time soon. Same for teachers. You might want to take a basic spelling class though so you don’t misspell doctorate again.
Nostradamus you are not.
@@ge-ys1uz great points!
Timeless video!
I wish I saw this at 16 started final year in the September dropped out in the December, this is England they don't like kids repeating years!!. To any kids grasp the chances you have its a tough world.
A lot of good advice here.
After I graduated high school, I was sure I would be a Shoo-in for any unskilled job. Reality crushed me like a locomotive LOL
Back when college tuition was maybe $4k for four years at a prestigious school
It makes your jaw drop how people are just taking that for granted, at least in the video.
If you have the opportunity, stay in school! Or both work and school part time. My Mom couldn’t finish high school back in the late 1930’s. Her income was needed to help the family pay for the basics, housing, food, clothing, and there was medical debt from an emergency surgery. She finished 10th grade and went to work in a lace factory.
Very well written short film!
This was the 1960's, the economy was booming, and all you needed to get a good job was a pulse.
😂A pulse! Good one!
I love this comment! Too funny!
I think around the early 1960 the WW2 Economy boom was waning and was one of the two issues in the 1960's Presidential Campaign including tax cuts on both candidates to keep it going.
So true! I was 12 my older brother 16 He got a summer job at one of the two steel mills in my city and made more than he did the first year he was a law clerk! 😂
@@michaelkline884 Lots of plumbers and electricians make more than lots of college graduates...and without the student loan debt. The trick is to obtain marketable skills in the era you're living in. It's always been that way.
I was in high school in the late sixties or so they tell me, I don't remember anything.
This must have been the roughest week of this guys life! 😅
So, he decides to live at home until the age of 30.
@@johnbockelie3899 Even back then? I thought that was a modern-day development?
All you need is education and good connections.
Your mom and me hate to see you grow up so fast. You're only 30 and you think it's ok to live on your own. Most kids your age want to wait till they're 40 to be independent.
whatthef911 in what country is that?
Who cares what age the actor is, it's fun seeing these old films.
5:17 Did he say Iphone? 😳😳😳
7:50 I love how the waitress completely ignores Doug's question.
Boy o boy, that brother was feeling the musics.
This was so well done. Enjoyable.
Lol when the young "greaser" asked Doug a cigarette or a lighter, I thought this greaser and his group may mug or attack him
well the music sure inferred that.
Why did the music buildup like that, then...nothing.
I thought exactly the same!
I thought, "well, here's Doug's introduction to a world/life of crime".
I finished high school...half a year early cuz i hated school, even though i did well at it. No college or anything though. I considered it at first, but my parents just laughed at me and said if i could pay for it, i could go. I didn't want it that badly!Back then (late '70's) there were still lots of entry level jobs, many of which have now disappeared. Over my life I have worked for short times for others, but most of my life I have been self employed.
I was sick of school in 2nd grade. But wound up doing 10 yrs of college. This boy shoulda stayed in school and went to dental school. If I could tolerate organic chemistry and comparative anatomy (and get good grades in it) anybody can.
Smoking in the mail room adds danger to the job of letter sorting !!!.
These are some old looking teens lol
Barry Primus was doing a lot of New York theater and he is quite good with the so so script. Later he did lots movies, TV etc. and ended up a director. .
Is THAT became of HIM? What about his BROTHERS? Are they STILL ALIVE in 2023?
I got a diploma in 1979, I worked from 1981- 2022. Before that I worked on the YWEP ( Youth Work Experience Program) from age 14 , 1974 til I was 19 in 1979.
To me finding work was no problem.
I retired at age 60 in 2022.
12:59 Carlos sounds more 35 than 17 here
I left university in Scotland in 1996, and it was more like there'll be a job in 6 months, not 12 hours, and that was ANY job not graduate level ones.
Smoke while you work…😂
The wicked, wicked world!
Man that jazz blast in the mail room is the wildest!
3:30 Remember the 1984 'Dune' movie? "FATHER!, THE SLEEPER HAS AWOKEN !!!" Lol.
My sister is a Beauty school dropout.
All these high schoolers look 1-2 decades older than they ought to. This dude looks like he’s about 40!
Most films pre 80s were like that look at Grease!!
Graduated in '64 and most everyone in the yearbook looked at least 40.... lol
They didn't use a lot of preservatives back then 😂
The rhetoric as if the last two years of high school are vital is hilarious when these days a bachelor's degree is regarded as one step above having been raised by wolves. In a sane world education would be made better rather than longer.
and in a sane world one would still be able to at least survive without the highest level of graduations.
You are Mark Twain's great great great grandson and I claim my $5. “Don't let schooling interfere with your education.“.(1907)
"I'm not a dropout, I just left school!"
Become an entrepreneur. That's the way to go. Use your talents and find something you love and work for yourself.
It works out for some. Those of us who are lucky and are in the right place at the right time. But not everyone who leaves school is nearly as lucky. As a drop-out myself, my personal advice to students would be to finish school.
This was a deep movie I'm going threw this now working for amazon I got a way out but i gotta fight fear though
Is this a Beatnik movie?
The only way out of poverty is hard work and education. 📚
The difference is that in those days, college wasn't a racket.
Or spitting dope rhymes
How many of hundreds of thousands of kids think they can spit dope rhymes? How many actually make it big? That's Snake Eyes you lose.
The best way is to be born good looking and marry well
True.
13:55 "DOUG MILLER!". Is, or was that His REAL Name in REAL Life, or only this movie Name?
Its hard to be on the outside of things
Does anybody know when was this educational film made by chance? 🙂
Doug, why don't you make eye contact?
that's only when he's talking to an authority figure.
He's certainly old enough - looks nearly as old as his father!!
Great background music!
I love jazz music
@@Michelle77Va Your one cool Chic, baby!
Does any one knows what those songs called I been trying to find it
F.W. Woolworth!!!
Doug's pop was in the PTO; hence, Doug. The rest of it feels like a proposal for a Jerome Robbins choreographed bit.
A very serious film.
Barry Primus as a young man!
He could always become a truck driver
I just got my CDL at age 54!
23:26 the finest over-acting I've ever seen.
Higher education was always about knowledge. That's why Harvard calls MIT "that trade school up the road." I was a double major of English and Art, and everyone asked me 'what I was going to DO with it.'
Yes, I agree. I have an English/history major and never regretted the schooling, although I did not use it for my career.
@@BrittMFH Also, most of the people I went to college with did study for what they thought would be their career, but wound up doing something else!
Just bring me my coffee and leave room for cream!
Yes, people have forgotten the purpose of education. Now, it's associated with job training. The value of learning is no longer appreciated.
4:53 is that Paul Simon?
I don’t know when this was made but that one guy looks like someone who played the jock on Grease
He lives in the living room? No wonder he bailed. Doesn't make it right. In fact he should have stayed in school. But it's now more understandable.
Btw, this guy is in his 30's. What is he doing in h.s. ?
So funny - I hadn't noticed until this comment! My mom's brother had a foldout bed in the hallway - he hasn't done badly for himself and I believe he went to post-secondary!
A high school diploma and a college degree or apprenticeship in skill trades. Always insurance-makes no difference the era.
Today Doug would make a killing as a professional TH-camr
Hey Doug, bad posture.
yeah that collecting,playing with your toys and not having a care in the world was over fairly quick
It was typical for an oldest kid to bail from the cramped house in those days.
What year is this from?
Probably late 40s or 50s
It was made in 1962
he's sorta a serious Jerry Lewis
So wait that old guy was in the tenth grade 😂😂😂😂😂😂
1957 +5 =1962 How old is BRODY RAYMOND BELDA now, in 2024? Last June or July:: "What Are You DOING?" right at ME, when I was watering all the ROSES at my older Brother's residence. The BELDA'S were next door and the Garden of ROSES edged both Residences. When BRODY had asked, I couldn't see him. Bu back then in 1962 , 5 year old ALBERT saw, against the upper Maplewood Estate basement's side window this Unknown Ol' Man watering with this Hose the ROSES and BRODY as well?
He’s 25 and still in high school?
When I was in 10th grade, there was a 21 yr old that shared my biology class.
35 hes 35
@@Languslangus He was 24 when he made this film.
The girl (Carol?) looks like the actress who played Mortician Addams, Carolyn Jones. I’m pretty sure it’s her.
Nowadays kids stay with parents until they are 30 lol
Wonder why hendidnt persue a trade
In the meantime, pick up bottles and cans for deposit money.
so he's in mail...whatz wrong widdat
A thing called E-mails destroyed his mail sorting job longevity. Lol just a harmless mailing humors
It's going to cause him to go postal.
In those days only boys wore the letter jackets? They are now stylish for boys and girls, adults wear them also, similar to the sleeveless jackets or jeans popular with many nowadays..
Boys who played sports were issued letter jackets to symbolise their sport. There were no or very few girls' teams then, so a girl only got to wear her boyfriend's jacket.
Doug needs to smoke more on the job
Barry Primus was 24 when he did this.
He's had a long career in movies and television.
So what.
Britt H he’s no where NEAR high school age.
As Timothy Leary said "Turn on, tune in, drop out" ...
Yea, real good advice.
All well and good, but Timothy wasn't paying their bills while they were out there following his advice.
His problem is he sucks at interviewing. Lol.
I want to shake that kid. His poor father.
This is a perfect example of that old adage that youth is wasted on the young . Why are they trying to make us feel sorry for him. He deseves no sympathy.
If life were only still that carefree. Now, we have to choose between working and possibly getting sick and possibly dying in a global pandemic or being unemployed and hopefully live. We have people protesting with military style weapons because they want the freedom to get the rest of us sick. The economy hasn’t been this bad since the Great Depression. My mom never seems to understand when I explain to her how easy her life was. I have had a job since I was 14. She was a spoiled baby boomer. Now she has Alzheimer’s and can be even way more selfish, but sad.
I am so sad that you are watching the news that you are watching. You are being manipulated by a media that manipulates their news stories as easily as they do people. So much so that they were successfully sued for millions of dollars and lost. There is much more out there than what you choose to view.
Can't envy Alzheimer's one bit. Saying her life is easier knowing that is pure evil.
People at that time were worried about the very real possibility of a nuclear war with the Soviet Union.
❃
Camilo Carrau Villanueva, ma cousin
No
Doug's biggest problem is that he looks 35.
they're eating a lot of fat
Andrew Baroch but they walked much more, and fat doesn’t make you fat, it’s all of those carbs.
You need a good diet of fat to lubricate your blod vesels.
ok boomer
That's original. Think of it yourself?
@@musclehunkster5165 yeah, its so rude, where are manners? I'm sure this young lady would be the first to moan if anyone spoke to her in this way
It’s interesting about this rude comment, yet she has a video about a simple braid, like that’s so impressive
Ageism sucks