Youth in Crisis

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Movie
Original title Youth in Crisis
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1943
length 18 minutes
Rod
production Louis De Rochemont

Youth in Crisis is a 1943 American short documentary film .

action

The situation of young people in the country changed significantly as a result of the Second World War . Many fathers are soldiers at war, the mothers work and young people suddenly earn salaries like their fathers. This leads to negative developments: the children no longer submit to their parents, consume alcohol, drugs and pornographic literature, while young women are becoming more and more intimate with soldiers because they see it as a patriotic duty. Still other young people become hooligans and riot in the streets. Since the United States entered World War II two years ago, the number of juvenile delinquency cases has doubled.

The film shows possible ways out for young people, the part being introduced by a speech by J. Edgar Hoover , in which he makes it clear that it is above all the families themselves who have to confront the criminal energy of their children. Young people should develop under adult supervision, for example in 4H clubs doing community service or selling war bonds .

production

Youth in Crisis was one of the numerous films of the time that dealt with the (new) problem of juvenile delinquency (others, for example, Where Are Your Children?, 1943; Children of Mars , 1943; Youth Runs Wild , 1944). The film was released as part of the March of Time series (10th season, 3rd episode). It received a copyright entry on November 5, 1943.

Awards

Youth in Crisis was nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Documentary Short in 1944 , but couldn't prevail against December 7th .

literature

  • James Burkhart Gilbert: A Cycle of Outrage: America's Reaction to the Juvenile Delinquent in the 1950s . Oxford University Press, New York 1986, pp. 29-30.
  • William H. Young, Nancy K. Young: World War II and the Postwar Years in America . Volume 1. ABC-Clio, California 2010, p. 432.

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