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Jason ... thanks; that was great!! That brought back some good memories. I started kindergarten in 1964; just a few years after this film was made and always ate a hot lunch all through elementary school.

I remember our milk was in little bottles and we had the divided lunch trays, too. I remember when milk then started to be placed in the paper containers.

And no ... I don't want to be a Mr. Bungles!! I want to be a Phil (and hope that I am)!!! :-)

Geoff
 
stepford phil

O yeah! Smiling, happy people!
I bet Phil tears the wings off of butterflys when no one is looking...
What a film! Can't wait to see the others...
Thanks!
 
young?

Oh, Jason, you are soooo sweet. Young!
I hate to confess, but I was pretty much like that Phil when I was kid. I think most gay men were...
There is a great one (The Shy Guy) with an impossibly young Dick York (Darrin Stevens, Samantha's Husband) (No, not Robert) (At least, I don't *think* so...)
 
Mr. Bungle comments

I have seen this one before at the Prelinger archives.

What struck me was how slow moving this movie was, and the enormous amount of repetition and detail. "Phil carefully put his napkin on his tray, his silverware, and then moved his tray slowlllyyyyy zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz)

I remember seeing movies like this, and even as a kid, I thought, geez, can this thing move along?!

I wonder, do the kids that were in this film ever look it up and watch it, esp as it is on the internet? Do they remember being in it? How was it shot, with old Bolex 16mm cameras? What school did they shoot it at, and where?

All kidding aside, this movie was done at the golden era of public schools, never to be seen again.
 
Very neat video! Nowadays, NO ONE really practices good manners in elementary school (especially those that learn them from the back seat of a car, as Greg says), and "good food" and "school cafeteria" are NEVER in the same sentence. I guess it all went downhill in the 70's or so? My auto mechanics teacher has been here at my high school for 32 years and said that the cafeteria food was actually good back then; he can't say the same now! Can you believe they offered MEATLOAF on the menu, and sliced turkey before Thanksgiving, not that pulverized stuff?

--Austin
 
Oh yes, Austin ... we all enjoyed hot lunches!! It was a ritual when we got home from school for my Mom to ask us "what did you have for lunch today"? It WAS very good and so was her cooking (still is)! We had milk at least 3 times a day; I still drink about 2 gallons a week; absolutely love the stuff ... especially Minnesota milk!!

These movies are good ... I like Mr. Soapy!! :-) I still like taking a nice bath with lots of bar (cake) soap (Ivory and Jergens are my favorite).

Nothing in this world is perfect and it is fun to see things that remind us of our childhood.

Thanks again, Jason!!

Geoff
 
In the 70s

I was in elementary school in the 70s and it was already going downhill.

Manners were for wussies. The school food, well it got us fed.

Again, I hated school because I was picked on so much.

Middle school and high school in the 80s was a joke. Everyone became a pothead or a punk.

There were no so such thing as a friend (except for the other outcasts).

I love the whole 50s idealism thing. The perfect, modern world. A world that never came into existance.

If you look at the later films (late 60s-70s) You'll see bloody school bus wrecks, sex, drugs, VD (gasp), and all kinds of bad stuff.

I remember seeing a film where a girl dropped her folder by the wheel of a schoolbus, and you can guess what happened when she went to pick it up. CRUNCH! I don't think it was gory, but it got the point across.

Also, I remember one about playing practical jokes. A boy put a tack on the girl sitting next to him's seat. Then he imagined her sitting on it and crying, then you heard an ambulance's siren, then he takes it back.

Thank God I never had to watch a Highway Safety Film. I probably wouldn't be driving if I had to. What I saw was just a basic safety video (GASP! OMIGOD!). That's right JVC U-Matic baby!
 
omg im dying here

LMAO so hard.....tooooo funny Jason, thanks for posting the link. Im crying/laughing so hard....shoot...guys @ work are going to wonder what Im up too...
You gotta watch the rest of the videos on the right...
Can these be burned onto a DVD....omg...I want these.
OMG...someone hand me a towel!

*tears are running down my face*
 
And NOT the BLUE towel either....it might have that "sticky" stuff that is the man's part that makes the babies....

OMG...i gotta stop watching these!!!!!!!

Im seriously crying Im laughing so hard.....

Oh lord it hurts

Jason, THANKS you made my week.....LMAO
 
Go to AVGeeks.com and you buy them on DVD. Or download them and burn them yourself.

Here have another one...

I THINK I've seen this one.

There's a video on there that's a video about taking care of your teeth and a bad cavity hurting one of the claymation teeth, BUT the soundtrack's been replaced with a horrid curse word filled rap song. So I guess you gotta go to avgeeks to get the original.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6052562680574943463&q=avgeeks
 
Thanks for the "Mr. Bungle" thread. I am a third grade teacher and I think we need more of this sort of thing in schools. Of course it needs updated! Our school does put an emphasis on manners. Children will do only what is expected of them. It is not their fault rather the fault of their role models...namely us adults. When we EXPECT the best we get it. My school still uses those trays for lunch and our lunches are good. Mrs. Wachter still makes many of the dishes she serves from scratch. Her homemade cookies are the best. The cafeteria still has its stainless steel "slide" for the trays as well. We even have the same floor as shown in the "movie". (The building dates back to 1924!) Our boys room is also very similar. Their lunch tables were our reading tables and I still have those very sturdy wooden chairs in my room today as shown in their cafeteria!

Did anyone think that Mr. Bungle was a rip off of "Punch" from the British Punch and Judy puppet plays? I even noticed that Mr. Bungle used the milk from the Merry Milkman game of the 1950's!

Thanks again for this thread...it just goes to show why everyone should read this forum. There is something for everyone.

--Tom
 
things may have gone downhill...

in the seventies, certainly it felt that way. But a couple of things were also changing for the better:
-my grandparent's maid's daughter lived with us her freshman year at college. Her grandmother had been a slave.
-I was able to skate hand in hand at the local skate-rink with other guys.
-The PhysEd teacher who was also the football coach - mega-respect person - told us in sex-ed class that the stuff on homosexuality in our sex-ed films was wrong, wrong, wrong. Some guys and some girls were just "made" that way and since "God" didn't make junk, that was ok.
-Physically and mentally handicapped (we didn't start making up words to replace plain English until later) students were integrated into regular classes on the basis of "whenever possible, normal schooling." My graduating class was the first to have several of these students recieve "real" high-school diplomas and not the "present and breathing" pieces of paper they had been condemned to previously...
-Teachers could still teach their subjects with authority - and students still cared enough to want to be taught.

I am not forgetting all the bad things here - if any of you ever get the chance to meet me take a look at my knuckles...life for openly gay kids was not easy, nor for anyone who was different. But for a brief span of time before the drugs and poverty ruined everything the schools did a pretty decent job.
Still think "Phil" is a pervert in the making. No normal boy is that thoughtful and considerate.
Or maybe "Phil" is short for "Phillis"...
(ducks and runs)
 
did anyone else notice how the cake seemed to *resist* the fork, like it was tough? and whats with the weird military haircuts all the boys had? for sure, kids nowadays need to learn RESPECT. i was on the bus not too long ago and some middle-school aged kids were using words like s#it and f@ck in front of old ladies! one of my older coworkers tells me about how his 18 y/o daughter ignores him when hes asks her to wash the dishes. i tell him to grab her by the hair and give her a good shake, but he wont do it. guess its too late.
 
20 years ago when I was in middle school everyone was saying s--- and f---, and everything else in between.

I'm not physically or mentally handicapped but I was "different" because of a birth defect. And I was picked on DAILY. I had a horribly low self-esteem. Fighting back, puhleeze. I was short, weak and skinny. I didn't have the hand-eye coordination to actually try to fight. BUT I had a good set of legs so I could haul ass if I needed to.

So, yeah, that's why I like those "perfect world" school films where everyone is polite and respectful, it would've been a nice change from the toilet of a school I was going to.

Phil rules! He's the very model that we all should go by.

"No normal boy is that thoughtful and considerate"

I have two little cousins that come close. I've never seen nicer boys. They must go to the same school that Phil went to.
 
frigilux ... you're right; Class of 1977 does rule AND since most of us were born in 1959/1960, we are the end of the "Baby Boomers".

David ... I had that same "buzz" cut through most of elementary school. We went from the buzz to the butch haircut (it was a wee bit longer) and then we were allowed to let our hair get down to our ears!! My Dad was pretty strict about that.

I also agree with the comments about respect. I've watched some teenagers with their parents and the filth that comes out of their mouths! I would have had my mouth washed out with soap after it had been "slapped" and probably would have been grounded, too.

On the other hand, there is a high school freshman boy in my neighborhood who is now cutting my grass every week. He is well behaved and grateful for earning $10 per lawn. He does 5 lawns and is highly responsible about it all. He's turning 15 soon and will go through Driver's Ed. His parents tell me he is trying hard in school, helps with his sister (has Downs Syndrome) and likes to go hunting in the fall. He's forcing himself to save money from his lawn jobs so he can do things at school and with hunting. He's a good boy.

Good heavens ... I feel old all of a sudden!! :-)
 
I, unfortunately am in Generation X (yuk) but at least I'm old enough to remember the 70s and what things were like back then.

Back then, everybody had a record player.
 
Remember!!

Flies carry dangerous germs, on their feet!!!

Loved the GE Globe Moniter Top refer and the indeterminate brand of freezer in Phil's lunch room.
As recently as the early 1980's Pacific Telephone screened
videos that were not much more sophisticated than the
selections featuring Phil and Billy.
 
Great movies

I am a teacher and today is the last day of school for the summer! Oh my, have things changed since the 50's. I love the classroom. Ginn reader out oh his desk, The Palmer Method alphabet above the blackboard and the teacher in a dress! I was in school when this movie was made and sure does bring back memories. Today, no teachers in dresses. No more Ginn readers like that one and no more Palmer Method either. Lunch room manners? Oh please! lol Oh, don't forget what the kids were wearing. I love it! No blue jeans and shirts with printing on them? What was that? Girls in dresses or skirts. We're thrilled to death if we can get them to cover up without being sent home for too skimpy and outfit. I have one more year to go and I am retired! Things sure have changed since the 50's. Now go wash your hands and comb your hair for lunch. Bye. Gary
 
Dear Jason,

Just for you, I promise to be neither mean nor nasty for the entire day.
(Of course, it is 6.42 p.m. here in Germany and I am home for the night.)
But it is the thought that counts, isn't it?
Hugs!
Keven
 
Gone are the days of nice people. Everyone's mean and an

in the *old days*, colored people were second-class citizens, women were powerless and homosexuals were sick/wicked perverts. lets not forget.
 

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