Dating: Do's and Don'ts
About Dating: Do's and Don'ts
A Coronet classroom short made for American high schools. It walks adolescents through the ordinary steps of a date: asking, planning, and how to behave on the evening. Gilbert Altschul directed, with Reuben Hill, a research professor of family life at the University of North Carolina, as advisor.
Cast & crew
More about Dating: Do's and Don'ts
Gilbert Altschul directed for Coronet Instructional Films. Reuben Hill, Research Professor of Family Life at the University of North Carolina, advised. Released in 1949 for school use, not for theaters.
Themes
Background
Postwar American high schools bought short films to teach dating manners. Coronet was one of the main suppliers.
Preservation
A print survives and has circulated from classroom libraries into archives.
Notes
- Coronet sold it to schools as social-guidance material, alongside the company's other etiquette shorts.
- Hill's credit is academic advice, not a screenplay billing.
- It is the sort of 16mm reel a teacher threaded up in class rather than a feature.
Also available
- Internet Archive (DatingDo1949)