They Call It All-States (1950)

★★★ · Not Just Ordinary Classes · Dodsworth the Cat · 2025-01-14

They drink milk. They go to class. They ride horsies up and down the ridge "just like Lone Ranger." They recite the new, anti-Commie version of the US Pledge of Allegiance. This film shows a day at the Farmers Union (unfortunately abbreviated on posters) summer camp in Colorado. "It's the end of something, an experience that will never be forgotten," says the narrator. But it seems these farm kids could be doing the same kind of thing elsewhere. Well, except maybe the cross-dressing party. And those classes on politics, international human relations and cooperatives. Sounds suspicious!!!…

★★★ · The "Other" summer camp.. · Spuzz · 2004-10-16

Whenever a film starts by saying these are a 'special kind' of kids, I'm in for the ride. Although it somewhat drags, this film, all about a summer camp for oh-so-educated teens (they have 2 pass two courses in order to get into this camp, and, apparently, be white) in the middle of NOWHERE, this camp features classes in international affairs, government and so on. Joy. Kids do have several hours a day to do as they please, aka basketball, walking, or, for the women, ironing (for the folk dance later on!), this is a pretty ultra-conservative-white-dweeb-clean-and-pressed sort of camp, one…