Description: From Educational Film Guide, 1953:
"The story of a date — the ways of asking and accepting date invitations, meeting the girl's patents, going to the date, behavior at an affair when seating is required, eating at a restaurant, going home and saying goodnight."

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Subjects: 1950s, Dating, Etiquette, Gender roles, Rituals, Youth

Tags: high schools; date etiquette; good grooming; grandfather clocks; Minnesotan accent; midwesterners; teenagers; meeting the parents; Spanish class; adolescence; lockers; curbside etiquette; dates; restaurants; charm bracelets; corridors; suburban home; drinking milk; making conversation; booths

Film Sponsor:

Creator: Coronet Instructional Films, Evelyn M. Duvall

Credits: Educational collaborator: Evelyn M. Duvall.
Consultant National Council on Family Relations

Distributor: Coronet Instructional Films

Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Gordon Elgart Collection, Prelinger Archives

Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive

Production Date: 1952

Release Date: 1952

Geographical Location: USA

Genre/Form: educational

Language: eng

Rights: (c) David A. Smart, 7Apr52; MP2365. RE114377, Coronet Instructional Media.

title on film:
"Date Etiquette
Coronet Instructional Films
Copyright MCMLII David A. Smart Coronet Trade Mark"

Film Format: 16mm film

Element: release print

Color: b&w

Color Process:

Sound or Silent: sound

Film Soundtrack Type: variable area

Edge Code:

Frame Rate: 24 fps

Length (feet): 354