Figure 1.--The main character in "The Go Between" is a boy of modest means invited to spend the summer with a wealthy school chum. They buy him a new light-weight summer suit so he can be more comfortable.
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Figure 1.--The main character in "The Go Between" is a boy of modest means invited to spend the summer with a wealthy school chum. They buy him a new light-weight summer suit so he can be more comfortable. |
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Rather plodding film which deals with a boy from a modest family who goes to stay with a wealthy school mate. This mate is a rather snotty sot, a blond boy who is a bit older and wiser. It is a meticulously costumed film and the boy's clothes play a prominent role. The main character is teased because he comes with only his heavy winter Norfolk suit. He is given a new summer knee pants suit which he wears with a boyish wide white collar and little bow, so he will not feel out of place. The shopping scene skips over the choice of the suit, but when he returns he has to stand on a stool while everyone admires his new suit. The film takes place in 1900. The pants aren't knickers and his knees shows as he runs about. Interesting that his friend who invited him to stay is a little older and wears a less childish suit--but still knickers. The guest serves as the go between for a young woman in the family and her lover that the family does not approve of. The role is played by Dominic Gourel (I think), who I would say is about 14 years old, but acts as a younger boy who turns 13 at the end of the film. Long scenes in the film are set around him.
A true story about a family which discovers that the eldest of their hemophiliac sons played by Josuha Harris has AIDs. A real heart breaker.
Tommy Rettig
The first in a trilogy about Austrian Jews trying to escape the NAZIs. A rather old boy is involved, who appears in shorts and knickers. One fleeting shot of a gentile friend about 16 or so in a short pants suit. A friend in shorts helps him run away, but wears an overcoat. After the early scenes he wears knickers and longs, except for a short summer scene in France. Very well done, intense depiction of the effort of Jews to get away.
Horrid little western. Leif Garret appears through much of it, but I doubt if he wears any notable costumes. He was known for his long hair. I only saw the end, he is seen a lot, but had few actual lines.
The Godzilla films were mostly dreadful Japanese monster movies. They were, hoewever, an important genre of Japanes films. I am sure that there must be some deep meaning in the Japanese pshche. Hopefull our Japanbese readers can provide us some insiights here. Quite a few of thge Godzillka films include boys in the cast. There is even one film with a juvenilre Godzilla. The children included in the films provide a good indicator of ordinary boys wear in Japan beginning in the 1950s when the series first appeared. Very commonly the films included children, most commonly little boys. The directors seem to feel that childish innosence was needed to offset the terrible monsters and often crass humasn society. Several of the boys in these films wear short shorts and knee socks. This did not change until the films made in the mid-1990s.
A Japanese amusement park becomes a battlefield between Godzilla and his prehistoric enemies from space. I haven't seen this one, but you would assume some boys are involved.
Pollution creates the evil monster Hedora. I don't have the dates, but the production quality suggests about 1980 to us. As with many Godzilla films a little boy is involved--symbolizing innosence. He is the son of the scientist studying the pollution. He wears the short cut short pants that were so popular in Japan. His are rather formal-looking suspender shorts. He appears to be about 6-7 years old. He wears several different oufits, all suspenhder shorts, mostly with kneesocks.
A mammoth insect with metal hands is sent to protect the underwater kingdom of Seatopia from the threat of man's nuclear testing. Godzilla protects the earth from a monster sent by the utopians. A boy about 10 years old is involved. Not a particularly good actor, but neither are the adults. He does illustrate the clothes worn by boys at the time. They didn't spend much on cotumin. He wears the same red sweater and short brown plaid shorts with hite ankle socks. This kind of outfit was very common for boys at the time. At the beginning of the film ge wears a floppy white cap.
This Godzilla film does not seem to involve children.
Japanese children are pictured in many Godzilla film, sometimes with only minor roles. This one stars a little Japanese boy who dreams a lot and meets a kind of little Godzilla. The boy is picked on by his school mates. All of the boys wear short pants, mostly with ankle socks.
I didn't catch the title, but Godzilla and a robot team up to beat back some technologically advanced people disturbed beneath the earth. They employ two monsters. A naive little boy about 10 years old wears short shorts.
Mitchell Boy Choir
A young boy in search of butterflies becomes involved in a terrifying treasure hunt. Based on Edgar Alan Poe's classic tale. Anthony Michael Hall.
A boy (Torquil Campbell) about 12 years old makes friends with a legendary golden seal which hunters are trying to kill. Set in the Aleutian Islands.
A rodeo star is forced to reevaluate his life after an accident claims his career and marriage. His two sons have important roles. They play their parts well, but I can't say I liked the movie. The boys wear nondescript outfits, mostly jeans.
Figure 2.-- 'Goldmember' is another movie in the Austin Powers collection. It depicts 'Mike Myers' amongst some others, attending a British Intelligence Spy School in 1958. The scenes where the actors are wearing school uniforms are flashbacks as Mike Myers reflects on his past. |
'Goldmember' is another movie in the Austin Powers collection. It depicts 'Mike Myers' amongst some others, attending a British Intelligence Spy School in 1958. The scenes where the actors are wearing school uniforms are flashbacks as Mike Myers reflects on his past.
The students vary in age from 14 years old and upwards, with some of them looking rather old to wear a school uniform ... but it's a comedy. He's found his mojo baby, and now Austin Powers strikes gold in his newest 24 karat shagadelic comedy-adventure .... The "sshhh!" hits the fan when Dr Evil and Mini-Me escapes from the prison. Joining forces with the superfreaky Goldmember, they kidnap Austin's father, master spy Nigel Powers, in a dastardly time-travel scheme to take over the whole world. Before you can say "Shake Your Booty," Austin cruises to 1975 and teams up with Foxxy Cleopatra to stop Dr Evil and Goldmember from their mischievous mayhem.
The Civil War epic "Gone With the Wind" is one of the greatest movies in Hollywood history. It was the first great color film. Characters from the film like Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler are some of the most legendary in film history. We do not recall any boys with important roles in the film. A reader tells us that Tommy Kelly made a brief appearance as a Confederate band member. Tommy was not precisely a child starr, but he was used by the studio in quite a number of filns during the 1930s. The one child role I recall is Scarlett and Rhett's little girl. "Gone With the Wind" is the best known of the many Civil War films. It is clearly a great film. It is not, however, a very historically accurate film. This is unfortunate because the view of the Civil War by many people is significantly affected by the film.
Paul Kelly
Lovely little movie based on the book by the children's author by la Contesse de Segur. A little Scottish boy is badly treated by his grandmother who wants to gain his inheritance. He appears in a kilt. The school is quite strict.
Two Italian brothers seeking fame and fortune become set designers for "Intolerance", D.W. Griffith's silent classic. I haven't seen the whole thing, but there are children depicted in period costumes during the street scenes.
A stern schoolmarm changes the lives of a generation of New England townspeople. Features lots of children of course given the school setting. The boys set contemporarily all wear longs, except some very little ones. Even a little contingent of Cub Scouts wore longs. (Actually this is fairly unusual in American films as there are really very few in which Cubs appear in their uniforms--Boy Scouts were more common.) Interestingly all the girls are carefully done up in dresses. In the flash backs a lot of the boys wear knickers. One boy has bare legs, but I think it is because he is too poor to have socks, rather than wearing shorts. There are no sailor suits or other period styles shown. The flash backs with the kids are interesting, but too much of the film deals with the teacher's trials and tribulations. Bit of a tear jerker.
A 12-year old boy's summer adventure in 1942 Mississippi. Inspired by the Willie Morris novel. Richard Farnsworth.
A traditional marriage between an 18 year old girl and a 6-year old boy leads the girl to struggle between the constraints of her cultural values and emotional desires.
Another child horror movie with a beady-eyed Macauly Culkin playing Henry, the evil, psychopathic son. It is a real pity to use him like this as he has only a few more boyhood films to make and he is such a competent little actor. He could so effectively deal with a realistic film about real people. Elijah Wood plays Mark, the good boy foil to evil Henry.
Uninteresting movie, but every now and then in the street scenes there are insights on boys' clothing. Some of the boys wear shorts. You have to be very observant, however, as there are no closeups.
The English film Goodbye Mr. Chips is perhaps the most well known of all school accounts. Interestingly, the plot is about Brookfield, a fictious public (exclusive private school), which even few English boys are able to attend. A much loved master at a public school decides to retire. The story opens in the 1930s, hence the more modern' school uniforms in some scenes. Then flashbacks the us back to the late Victorian era when Arthur Chipping begins teaching and Eton suits are de rigeur for pupils. Chips moves from an idealistic young master who cannot control the boys to crabbed old retired beak who knows every nook nd cranney of the adolescent mind. The various filmed productions are based on the novel by James Hilton.
Classic British film. A stern, but dedicated English schoolmaster's marriage gives him a new outlook on life and his students. Rather well done movie, with quite a few boys, although few have extensive parts. There are some uniforms with caps and blazers, but all the boys wear long trousers. Some sequels have followed which were well done, but added little to the original, except color.
Very well done remake of the original with Peter O'Tool. Good movie about life in a British public school. An excellent movie with lots of boy characters. They all wear longs at the school.
Figure 3.--English schoolboys until after World War I commonly wore Eton collars with their school uniforms. Some schools even had uniform with Eton collars in the 1930s. This scene is from "Goodbye Mr. Chips". |
A much loved master at a public school decides to retire.
The BBC produced an excelent version of Goodbye Mr Chips.
The story opens in the 1930s, hence the more modern' school uniforms in some scenes. Then flashbacks tke us back to the late Victorian era when Arthur Chipping begins teaching and Eton suits are de rigeur for pupils. Roy Marsden plays Chipping and ages very convincingly from
idealistic young master to crabbed old retired beak. It is based on the novel by James Hilton. The producer was Barry Letts and it was directed by Gareth Davies.
Brandon De Wilde plays the part of a boy who must give up his beloved dog to the rightful owners.
The beautifully done British TV production, Goodnight Mr. Tom is about a boy evacuee at the beginning of World War II who was billeted on a elderly man. The British evacuated many children from London and the large cities during 1939-41 to move them into safer areas as the Germans in 1940 began bombing British cities in the Battle of Britain. They were taken in by private citizens in non-industrial cities, rural areas and villages. (The Germans later did the same, but the children were mostly housed in camps.) Most of the films addressing the evacuation deal wirh instances where the evacuee children were mistreated. In this production it was the boy's mother that was mistreating him. The costuming is very accurate. The boys in the village wear a variety of outfits, including both corduroy short trousers and matching lumber jackets. The TV movie was based on the novel of the same name by Michelle Magorian.
Goonies was filmed in Astoria, Oregon. It’s on the Pacific Ocean near the Columbia River in an area that is a virtual graveyard of shipwrecks and the perfect setting for a tale of hidden pirate treasure. Mikey (Sean Astin) and Brandon Walsh (Josh Brolin) are two brothers whose family is preparing to move due to a new development that is sure to be started unless enough money is raised, which is quite doubtful. But, when Mikey stumbles on a treasure map of the famed "One-Eyed Willy's" hidden fortune, he, his brother, and a few friends set out on a quest to find the riches in hopes to save their homes. The friends are played by Jeff Cohan as “Chunk” the nerd fat kid that seems to be mandatory in every juvenile movie, Johathan Ke Quan as “Data”, the mechanical genius of the group, and Corey Feldman as “Mouth”. Joining our adventurers in their quest are two girls, Bran’s girlfriend Kerri Green as “Stef” and the boys’ tomboy buddy, Martha Plimpton, as “Andy”. The entrance to a cavern is found, but it is located underneath the house of the Fratelli family, a treacherous group of thieves who attempt to beat the "Goonies" to the treasure.
See "The Childhood of Maxim Gorky" and "My Apprenticeship" (Out in the World).
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