Junior Prom is an educational film produced by Simmel-Meservey about good manners on a date. The film follows four teenagers as they navigate the proper etiquette of attending their junior prom. This film is intended to guide teenagers on what will be expected of them socially as they interact with the opposite sex. The topics range from proper formal attire, meeting the parents, to proper punch ladling. The film is very wholesome and humorous by today’s standards.
Shot of a brick high school (00:48). Students get up and leave a classroom. Two girls stay in their seats. Two boys read the announcement of the bulletin board for the junior prom (1:30). The boys ask the girls to the prom. All four of them eat outside on a picnic table. They drink milk out of glass bottles and discuss corsages (3:05). One boy pulls the other boys tie out of his suit and gestures to his socks (3:58). The boy changes his tie and socks. The blonde girl shows off her sparkling white dress to her parents in their living room (5:01). She picks up the telephone. Her friend sits on her pink couch gesturing to a big red bow in her hair. She removes the bow (6:05). The two boys pull up to a house. He rings the door bell, the girl in the white dress answers. She introduces him to her parents. The other boy enters with a corsage box. He hands it off to his friend, who presents it to his date (7:47). He places her coat over her shoulders. The next boy walks into the other girl’s house and shakes her parents’ hands. She pins boutonniere on his lapel (9:06). They drive to the dance. They arrive to a live band and slow dancing couples (10:12). They greet the older escorts, shaking all of their hands. They all sit on a black couch together. Another couple joins them and sits down. The boys fill in their dance programs. They stand and one boy reaches for his friend’s date (13:16). They correct him and dance with their perspective dates. The older people sit down on the couch and chat. The teenage couples dance together with curtained back drops and the live band (13:35). A boy plays piano. The boy dances very stiffly. The boy ladles punch into his and her cups incorrectly as he makes her hold her own cup (15:08). The other couple ladles punch. Close ups of them dancing and chatting. The other couple sits in awkward silence (16:15). The couples file out saying good bye to the dance sponsors. Neon blinks in the dark. They sit at a table in a diner, a waiter in white with a black bowtie brings them menus (17:46). One boy suggests a dish to his date. The other boy does the same. They chat and the boys order. The waiter appears to buss the dishes. The boys put money on the table. They place the girls coats over their shoulders. They all drive home smiling. A boy walks his date to her door, opens the door and kisses her lightly on the mouth (20:38). The boy opens his dates door. They shake hands and he opens her door. They shake hands again.
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