Teenage Salute

★★★★ · Love those kids! · donwert · 2013-01-01

A curiously affecting (to me at least) local program from Channel 2 in Oakland from the late '50s highlighting the achievements of local teens. First we meet the adult directors of East Bay Boys Clubs and the boys chosen as "Boy of the Year" by each club. Then we meet teen taking part in drivers education programs. The production is laughingly poor, with the cameramen and director clueless about what shots to take. But the adults are earnest and good-hearted and the teens are shy, cute and altogether winning. Most TV stations had programs like this in those days. I remember a show where I…

★★ · Exercise in Terror! · scotto · 2004-12-31

This looks to be a late 1950's television production. It's amazingly boring and long, and I find it hard to believe that anyone would be able to sit thru this unless they were related to one of the people interviewd. I'm not sure what happened before the camera was turned on because everyone looks terrified out of their minds! And no one can look the host in the eye when he asks them a question. At first I thought that perhaps they were reading cue cards, but after a while I wasn't so sure. Of course, the only one immune is the Beaver who is clearly visible on the thumbnails... he's simply…