“ Junior Prom ” Good Manners on a Date (1946)
1946 · Short film · 21 min
Synopsis
Junior Prom" is an educational film produced by Simmel-Meservey about good manners on a date. The film follows four teenagers as they navigate the proper etiquette of attending their junior prom. This film is intended to guide teenagers on what will be expected of them socially as they interact with the opposite sex. The topics range from proper formal attire, meeting the parents, to proper punch ladling. The film is very wholesome and humorous by today’s standards. Shot of a brick high school (00:48). Students get up and leave a classroom. Two girls stay in their seats. Two boys read the announcement of the bulletin board for the junior prom (1:30). The boys ask the girls to the prom. All four of them eat outside on a picnic table. They drink milk out of glass bottles and discuss corsages (3:05). One boy pulls the other boys tie out of his suit and gestures to his socks (3:58). The boy changes his tie and socks. The blonde girl shows off her sparkling white dress to her parents in their living room (5:01). She picks up the telephone. Her friend sits on her pink couch gesturing to a big red bow in her hair. She removes the bow (6:05). The two boys pull up to a house. He rings the door bell, the girl in the white dress answers. She introduces him to her parents. The other boy enters with a corsage box. He hands it off to his friend, who presents it to his date (7:47). He places her coat over her shoulders. The next boy walks into the other girl’s house and shakes her parents’…
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- Running time
- 21 minutes
- Collection
- Ephemeral Films
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- Junior Prom
- Good Manners
- 1946
- Educational Film
- Date
- Dating
- Stock Footage
- Periscope Film
