"Girl Trouble/Boy Trouble" at Oddball Films November 26, 2010

Event: “Girl Trouble/Boy Trouble Vol. 2”.  Curator Pete Gowdy and Oddball Films present an evening of vintage educational and guidance films. Now’s your chance to finally see those secret films for girls and boys shown in grade school and junior high, finally desegregated by Oddball Films! Films about menstruation, vandalism, budding sexuality, dating and the “difficult years” will be shown, including Happy Family (1950), the perfect nuclear family without a whisper of problems to come; Teenagers on Trial (1955), amazing RKO Studios expose on the growing JD problem; Shy Guy (1947), pre-Bewitched Dick York is the classic dork; It’s Wonderful Being a Girl (1966), presented by Modess Feminine Napkins; The Dangerous Years (1966), atmospheric JD expose hosted by David McCallum (The Man From U.N.C.L.E.); About Dating (1947), beautiful Technicolor dating guide for squares; and more!
Date: Friday, November 26, 2010 at 8:30PM
Venue: Oddball Films, 275 Capp Street, San Francisco
Admission: $10.00 RSVP Only to: 415-558-8117 or [email protected]
Web: http://www.oddballfilm.com/oddballftp/Girl_Boy_Trouble_2_PR.pdf

"Girl Trouble/Boy Trouble Vol. 2”
Vintage Teen Guidance Films
Screen at Oddball Films

On Friday, November 26, Curator Pete Gowdy and Oddball Films present an evening of the strange, and bizarre world of vintage guidance films. Shown in grade school, junior high and high school auditoriums, these films were meant to educate, guide, and usually strike fear in impressionable youths. Some were shown to the all students, but many were girl or boy only- now is your chance to see what you missed!! Showtime is 8:30PM and admission is $10.00. Seating is limited so RSVP is preferred to: [email protected] or 415-558-8117.

Highlights Include:

Teenagers On Trial (B+W, 1955)
Made in the wake of Rebel Without a Cause. Shown are images of petty crimes, stealing goods, breaking windows, underage drinking at bars, all leading to a more serious incident when a police officer is hit by a teen-age driver, leading to arrest and juvenile detention.

While the problems focus mainly on the teens themselves, the narrator goes on to mention the fact that busy parents holding down two jobs were also part of the trouble--or, simply bad parenting.

Shy Guy (B+W, 1947)
Poor Phil (Dick York) can’t seem to fit in at school. So he haunts his basement tinkering with electronics like some ancestor of Crispin Glover. His overdressed dad (just home from his mob meeting) comes to his rescue and Dick learns a valuable lesson in social conformity.

It’s Wonderful Being a Girl (Color, 1966)
Presented by Personal Products Company (a division of Johnson & Johnson), the makers of Modess- it’s not a “curse”, it’s Wonderful Being A Girl!

The Dangerous Years (B+W, 1966)
Hosted by David McCallum (The Man From U.N.C.L.E.), this documentary made by the Kemper Insurance Co. analyzes the problem of increasing juvenile crime and what is being done about it. Very atmospheric with nods to noir and cinema verité style- includes photographs of juvenile criminals and interviews with them concerning what they think is their role in the community.

Happy Family (B&W, c. 1950)
Narrated by “dad”, this guy has the perfect wife, perfect daughter and perfect son…

About Dating (Color, 1947)
Classic teen dating guide in stunning Technicolor- so very relevant today!

PLUS- more twisted oldies and clips- math class is cancelled, all Oddball Junior High students please report to the auditorium!!

Curator Biography:
Pete Gowdy (aka DJ Chas Gaudi) is host of San Francisco’s Shellac Shack, a weekly 78 rpm listening party and a DJ specializing in vintage sounds: soul, jazz, country, punk and new wave. A graduate of the Vassar College Film Program, he is an associate producer of Marc Huestis Presents, the long-running movie legend tributes at the Castro Theatre.

About Oddball Films
Oddball films is the film component of Oddball Film+Video, a stock footage company providing offbeat and unusual film footage for feature films like Milk, documentaries like The Summer of Love, television programs like Mythbusters, clips for Boing Boing and web projects around the world.  
Our films are almost exclusively drawn from our collection of over 50,000 16mm prints of animation, commercials, educationals, feature films, movie trailers, medical, industrial military, news out-takes and every genre in between. We’re actively working to present rarely screened genres of cinema as well as avant-garde and ethno-cultural documentaries, which expand the boundaries of cinema. Oddball Films is the largest film archive in Northern California and one of the most unusual private collections in the US. We invite you to join us in our weekly offerings of offbeat cinema.

Official Website: http://mim.io/17e57