Before teenagers looked to TV, Facebook, and Twitter they had to rely on educational film strips to tell them what to do and how to behave. This one from 1947 entitled “Are You Popular” tackled the thorny question of teenage popularity.
Some of the pearls of wisdom in this ten minute short:
“No, girls who park in cars are not really popular, not even with the boys they park with, not when they meet at school or elsewhere.”
Nice girls will get invited to sit with the cool kids as long as they, “seem as interested in girls as in boys and they’ve heard no scandal about them.”
Teenagers in the 1940s like to go to places called “Teentown” and attend weenie roasts.
“Take my advice, think twice before going steady.”
“Caroline and her mother have found one way a girl can repay a boy for entertaining her…”
It ain’t Mean Girls; Are You Popular likes to reinforce that, “home, parents, and personality all help girls and boys to be popular.”
Lacey, Rachel, Lindsay, and Amanda
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