School Rules: How They Help Us (1953)

Discusses rules and stresses the point that rules are ways of making life more pleasant, smooth and safe. Rules are good for you. Obey. Obey.

A rare color Coronet, but not very exciting beyond that. The only highlight comes with the dream sequence and Allan's peculiar choice of shirt.

Production Company: Coronet Instructional Films

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• social
• guidance
• 1950s
• authority
• authoritarian
• rules
• teenagers
• behavior

[PluralOfEverything]

Rules are so important, we often write them in teeny tiny print so nobody can read them.

[LOAblue]

Judging from these videos... seems like in this time period... society was all about rules, control; and conformity... no wonder people rebelled in the 60's

[DrGregoryHouseIT]

Rules that make us servants of a faceless regime!

[nanlisa]

SlamdogX: I still stand by my comments. These films do not teach government propaganda. They're just as good today as they were back then. In fact, there would have been no Columbine if the kids today had seen this.

(By the way, I was a child in the 60's myself. I lived through the 60's.)

[LOAblue]

@Avalon400 Not saying the 60's was perfect, but I'd much prefer that decade over the 50's. At least in the 60's people were challenging old ways of doing things, and that time period did also give us a lot of social advancement.

[SlamdogX]

@nanlisa these films teach government propaganda to be a good upstanding citizen to the state. theres a reason people rebelled in the 60's

[imajika2]

That shirt is awesome!

[nanlisa]

The kids today should see these films. They might learn something from them. Regardless of whether this was back in the 1950's or even today; these films teach valuable lessons.

[nanlisa]

Back in those days, even when I went to school during the 60's and 70's, the teachers maintained control of the classroom. If you got in trouble in school, the teacher would tell your parents, and boy they would give it to you when you got home.

Nowadays, the kids are simply out of control. They're bringing guns and knives to school and they have to go through metal detectors. Instead of taking responsibility, the parents today are either running to a lawyer or to the ACLU.

[NoOneBetter1000]

They're so loud in the library! lol

[Avalon400]

@LOAblue And the 1960s were a miserable time. many young people ran away from their parents and family and ended up barefoot on the streets of san Francisco. They started taking toxic drugs and engaged in indiscriminate sex with strangers. They got sick in many ways. The 60s left America with an unculture based on "being hip" and listening only to loud noisy, violent "Rock n Roll". We still suffer today as result of this time of moral depression and cultural decay.

[1952kid]

Our teachers would run these films in class ,along with the great, Duck and Cover films. I do remember the teacher saying , these are alittle corny , but watch it anyway. I probably saw these around 1958 - 1960's . It was kinda like watching Leave it to Beaver in school, no one acted like the people in the show.