Age of Turmoil: Correlated with Adolescent Development.Adolescent Development Series. [Text Films]

Year Published: 1957

Creator: Produced for McGraw-Hill Book Company Inc. by Crawley Films Canada.

Complete Record: This film documents teenage or adolescent behaviors. Behaviors of adolescents are shown as normal developmental stages. Girls: In cliquish groups. Holding schoolbooks in arms and strolling down path away from school. Girls giggling and verbally criticizing everything around them and expressing attitudes about the world about them. Boys: Hanging out in groups, starting with porch at home. Boys fighting and quarreling, reading car magazines, and with no girls around. Boys talking about sports and ball players as idols; boys examining car. Boys said to be impressed with material possession. At one girl’s home: To show general untidiness: eating food out of refrigerator; girl slicing cake and leaving it uncovered and not placed away in kitchen; adolescent girl’s room; girl sitting at her make-up table. Images on wall express her idols. She opens a fashion magazine and attempts to copy hair style. Good images of girl setting her hair in curls. Film illustrates the postures and positions assumed by her on chairs, beds, on phone. Girl daydreams. She is shown writing in her diary on her bed. She argues with her mother while on phone and folded into her chair. At a boy’s home, boy shown with DOG and sitting with parents at table. Boy exhibits odd behaviors: drops magazine or comic book over and over; walks down path of home choosing to step on different stones. Boy shown lazy and resentful for having to mow lawn. Early Mobile gas station depicted with attendant. Boy hangs out with attendant. Boys’ strange useless behaviors -- pushing and shoving. The ordered of a troop of boy scouts erecting a tent. Soda Shop (a hangout) is shown. Booths and counter. Boys at counter; girls in booth exchange behaviors meant to show off for one another. Early sexual flirting. Girls shown with a substitute for boys -- idols on glamorous movie posters. They are seen at a typical movie theater exterior. Large marquee. Girl shown making candy in her Mom’s kitchen. Boy studying in room by single light. His mother tells him to go to bed as its late. Another boy sits talking with his father on the porch. Another boy is in his room mounting posters and other memorabilia. His father comes in to reproach him for noise and putting holes in wall.