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Posts Tagged: 1960s

  • December 21, 2013

    An American Summer Camp in France

    BY Lucas Habte

    In 1925, educator Donald MacJannet opened an American-style summer camp for French and American students on the shores of Lake Annecy in southeastern France, near the Swiss border.

    FROM:Archive Fever

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  • December 20, 2013

    The First Ever Teen Drama

    BY Lucas Habte

    Beverly Hills, 90210, Degrassi High, My So-Called Life, and Dawson’s Creek were all shows from the 1990s that pioneered the now ubiquitous teen drama, but nothing came before Never Too Young, the 1965 TV show that was the first to target a teen audience.

    FROM:Tube Time

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  • November 27, 2013

    The Birth of Skateboarding

    BY Lucas Habte

    Legend has it that skateboarding was born sometime in the mid 1940s when some inventive Californian teenagers tried to figure out a way to surf when the waves weren’t big enough.

    FROM:Archive Fever

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  • October 31, 2013

    Teen Prodigies of the Spanish Cinema

    BY Lucas Habte

    Teenage is screening this weekend in Barcelona at the In-Edit Festival, so here’s a collection of highlights from the work of Spanish teen actors across the decades.

    FROM:Tube Time

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  • October 10, 2013

    Los Angeles, World Capital of Teen Fandom

    BY Lucas Habte

    Teenage is screening today at ArcLight Doc Fest in Los Angeles, so here’s a chronological compilation of LA teens doing what they do best — fawning over entertainers of all kinds in the entertainment capital of the world (the above photo is a Bee Gees concert in 1979!).

    FROM:Archive Fever

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  • September 29, 2013

    How To Be a Mid-Century British Teen

    BY Lucas Habte

    In the years that followed the birth of the “teenager” in 1945, British and American adults had no choice but to come to terms with the cultural and economic power of this new group.

    FROM:Archive Fever

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  • September 28, 2013

    Donyale Luna, First Black Supermodel

    BY Lucas Habte

    Much of the conversation surrounding New York Fashion Week has rightfully criticized the fashion industry’s continued refusal to hire non-white models, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a long history of black supermodels rising (if briefly) to the top of the fashion world. 

    FROM:Archive Fever

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  • August 24, 2013

    Jones Valley High School of Birmingham, 1925-1974

    BY Lucas Habte

    Today Teenage is screening in Birmingham, Alabama at the Sidewalk Film Festival, so we’re celebrating Birmingham teens. 

    FROM:Threads Ahead

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  • August 12, 2013

    Wiseman on Paul Simon and Mescaline

    BY Lucas Habte

    In 1968, an English teacher, no doubt in an attempt at relevancy, uses Simon and Garfunkel to “teach” her class about poetry.

    FROM:Tube Time

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  • July 17, 2013

    High School Hippies

    BY Lucas Habte

    We often hear talk about how popular culture today is so self-referential and self-cannibalizing that it’s impossible to tell where nostalgia ends and creativity begins.

    FROM:Archive Fever

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