Vintage Emotional Maturity Films 2 DVD Set

 

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This 2 DVD superb films collection brings together the finest and most interesting emotional maturity films from the post world war two era. In the 50s one of the popular ideas about anger was the pressure cooker theory, meaning if you didnt let your anger out you would go crazy. Many of the films discuss how to let your anger out in a good while also showing what not to do, like young Dave, who slashes a rivals tires. Funny, yet somehow serious, this collection is absolutely delightful.

Act Your Age Emotional Turmoil

Length: 12 Minutes | Produced:1949

Act Your Age is a fantastic vintage social guidance film full of campy moments, ludicrous characters, and unintentional comedy. Jim, a disruptive adolescent, gets a lecture from the principal about the infantile reactions of teens who are struggling to mature. While Jim is serving his punishment, he flashes back to times when he witnessed his friends succumbing to tantrums or acting like babies. The behavior of these kids and the ways in which it was considered objectionable are sidesplitting. With the help of family, and school officials, Jim devises a bizarre How Old Am I? chart which allows him to assess his own maturity, personality, and ability to work out his own problems. Act Your Age soars with kookiness and a bit of timeless advice for adolescents.

Angry Boy

Length: 30 Minutes | Produced:1950

Angry Boy is a beautiful dramatic film about the psychological discord in a 1950s family and its effects on a young boy. Tommy is an adorable 10 year old, full of youthful potential. But this film is not a cheesy, overly rosy postwar WWII movie, and heres why: Tommy, loveable and perfect though he is, is a thief. Instead of condemning him, this special film takes the approach of counseling and therapy for not just Tommy, but his entire family. The roots of this familys pain run deep - and they are slowly unearthed through diligent efforts by the Tommy, his parents, and their therapist. In addition to being an uncharacteristically sensitive and touching movie, Angry Boy was produced with an artistic flair: stirring music, deft direction, and vividly portrayed emotional. This film soars to lofty heights and treats a tender subject with the grace and courage it deserves.

Control Your Emotions

Length: 13 Minutes | Produced:1950

An offensively brutish film, Control Your Emotions offers an oversimplified version of the effects feelings can have on adolescents. A bogus doctor explains a troubled teens bad behavior by saying questionable things like fear is triggered by loud noises, and your emotions can be your own greatest enemy. Likening emotions to fire in their tendency to get out of control if not carefully regulated, this film advocates the suppression of emotion as a way to be a well-liked and happy member of society. Further warnings from the doctor reach higher levels of stupidity: If this kind of behavior is repeated often, it might lead to a permanently warped personality. Control Your Emotions exemplifies everything that was bad about the rigid conformity imposed in 1950s culture, as well as revealing the outright dishonesty involved in such control.

Dont Get Angry

Length: 11 Minutes | Produced:1950s

Dont Get Angry espouses the pressure cooker school of thought about anger. It advises young children that angry feelings are normal, shouldnt be bottled up, and need to be channeled into non-violent expressions. There are several dramatizations of scenes where children get angry about something, culminating with the image of a boiling teakettle superimposed over their faces. Paul is mad at his friend Pete, because Pete doesnt want to play model airplanes with him, so he goes to the school gym and uses the punching bag. Susan is mad at her sister Carol, because she wont take turns at jumping rope, so she writes a short story about her angry feelings. Each child learns a different way to deal with their feelings without resorting to violence toward someone else or themselves.

Emotional Maturity

Length: 19 Minutes | Produced:1957

Emotional Maturity is a social guidance film with an atypical darkness not often explored at the time. The movie follows the trials of Dave, whose girlfriend has dumped him, whose father thinks he is a loser, and whose football coach has benched him. Instead of reigning in his emotions as he should, Dave slashes the tires of his ex-girlfriends new boyfriends car. But it doesnt end there: Daves emotional instability becomes a cascading shower of maliciousness and destructive behavior. Lacking the false and forced wholesomeness of most every film of this ilk, Emotional Maturity is a well produced and piercing film.

Understand Your Emotions

Length: 12 Minutes | Produced:1950

Understand Your Emotions was an attempt to lend a biological understanding to emotional responses. Enthusiastic science teacher Mr. Brent performs experiments on his students in order to teach them about how emotions effect voluntary and involuntary behavior. He first tries out the old Jack-in-the-box trick on three of the students, and notes their reactions to the surprise. He then performs other experiments, including hooking up one student to a polygraph machine and then testing his uncomfortable reaction to words like drill and probe. The film is often ridiculous, as is the premise since emotional response is hardly understood biologically even today. This film is a good example of the sorts of questionable material that was forced on young people in the 1950s.

The Empty Life

Length: 23 Minutes | Produced:1963

The Empty Life is ostensibly about psychological boredom, which resembles modern depression. The film depicts several dramatizations of different people who are bored with their lives and have developed some neurotic compensating behavior or other problem. Ann Galloway, a bored housewife, anesthetizes herself with alcohol, the grocer who lives down the street is a nymphomaniac, and Hugh Marriott hates his job but cant quit because his domineering wife wont let him. Hugh is the star of the show, and the film shows how his mother (also domineering) and his wife have ruined his life and the life of his son. This movie has themes that are very typical of the 1950s, including blaming women for mens problems while ignoring the fact that womens lives were usually even more boring, confined, and depressing than the men they were supposedly bringing down. A weird jazz soundtrack and heavy-handed narration adds to the camp factor of this film, but there are moments when the pain of the characters cuts deep, and the film portrays them in a realistic and sensitive manner.

Mental Health: Keeping Mentally Fit

Length: 12 Minutes | Produced:1952

Mental Health: Keeping Mentally Fit outlines the four steps to mental health: express your emotions, know your own abilities and limitations, respect others, and solve problems in a timely manner. Kind old Dr. Martin tours the mental health of his town at the high school graduation. As the camera pans over the celebration, Dr. Martin informs the audience that some of these kids will end up in a mental institution. Amidst interesting scenes of small town life, the doctor begins correcting the childrens problems with ludicrously oversimplified explanations. Overall, Keeping Mentally Fit is a somewhat strange snapshot of 1950s psychology.

Self-Conscious Guy

Length: 10 Minutes | Produced:1951

This film from Coronet shows how feelings of self-consciousness can interfere with a successful and fulfilled life. Marty lives with the feeling that there is a spotlight on him all the time, a fear that is affecting many areas of his life, including his school work and his ability to make friends. He wants a part in the school play, but his lack of self-confidence means that he is only fit to work behind the scenes as a stage hand. Every time he starts to feel self-conscious, an actual spotlight shines on him, illustrating his feelings of vulnerability in certain situations. As the film was made in the 1950s, Marty will eventually learn to find his confidence, echoing the optimism of the time.

Snap Out Of It! Emotional Balance

Length: 11 Minutes | Produced:1951

This vintage film seeks to offer emotional reassurance to troubled youths, but fails to do so in strange ways. Howard is a C-student who wants to make As desperately. However, when he falls short of his goals he ends up in trouble. His teacher sends him to see the principal, who gives Howard a helpful lecture. Amazingly, Mr. Edmunds counsels Howard that he shouldnt have such high expectations for himself, but that he should keep himself emotionally balanced. Without the dangerously high expectation, he can focus on attacking the problem. There is a great scene where other kids are shown doing some activity that they hope to excel in, double-exposed so that they have the fantasy double of themselves right next to them, for example, one girl is singing next to a grand piano with a double exposure of herself next to her dressed in fancy costume, singing. But the overall message of the film is to temper expectations in order to not get swept away by possible failures - a questionable message that likely wouldnt be permitted today.

Toward Emotional Maturity

Length: 10 Minutes | Produced:1954

Being a teenager means having a ton of hard-to-manage emotions. However, this 1950s short film, Toward Emotional Maturity, sought to make handling those extreme feelings easy, and less radical. The video shows a young girl trying to gain control over her fear, jealousy, anger, and many more emotions present within her story. Along the way, 1950s culture is highlighted as the young lady is forced to deal with decisions about necking and other activities so closely associated with that period in American history. Toward Emotional Maturity serves as a wonderful psychological video that is entertaining, historical, and enjoyable!