These “kids” are now in their eighties. Fascinating to see what American life was back in those days

I'm surprised that the teachers are letting the student council handle it. It shows that the faculty actually gives the student council real responsibility.

I like how the video calls Jim as a show off, not a class clown. That cuts right to what a class clown usual is, showing off for attention.

In my High School in the 1960s we had a Student Court. Students were the Judges in a court setting, and even wore judges robes. They held a trial, heard witnesses, and decided verdicts. They also gave out punishments that were prescribed by school laws. ... I thought it was pretty cool that students were trusted with such power.

I love the stern-looking eagle in the opening credits.

I ask you: Who puts out their "best glasses" for a bunch of kids?? Come on, now.

Funny...things never seem to change.

This is why being a teacher is such a hard and stressful job !

So this is what high school in 1954 looked like.........reminds me of my high school years 20 years ago; same goof-offs, clowns, etc. no respect for teachers.........like nowadays too.. Some things just never change!!

That sign held up well in those windy conditions .Turns out Jim knows a thing or two

Thanks for sharing this, another classic from director Herk Harvey who made some great school scare short films but is better remembered today for the feature length fright film CARNIVAL OF SOULS. The actress who plays the too trusting mom who regretted the decision to use the best glasses here also appears in CARNIVAL as the rooming house landlady.

I wonder how these people would react to kids in this generation

Unfortunately Jim fell in that age bracket where he was too young to go to Korea and too old to go to Vietnam. Damn it.

the best way to handle "Jim" is to ignore him. I had classmates like that who were bullies and I just ignored them no matter what. Once you ignore them and they don't get the attention, they will stop their dumb antics

I like this girl's story. Jim Brewster is a complete smart aleck.

there used to be a greater emphasis on the group and the community, rather than the individual. back then, you could use social pressure to "encourage" or manipulate people to conform. it doesn't work like that anymore.

Should have been " Frank..punch him out ! "

They should name the principal…principal library book cause clearly he’s checked out lmao😂

Jim's last name was Carrey....... he went on to be one of the richest people in Hollywood before he went insane.

Jim was killed in fight when he got punched out and hit his head on the sidewalk outside a bar in 1960, and the world was a better place for it.

i kinda wanna send this to someone in my class ://

A lot of the things in these videos just seem like ADHD and anxiety.

Today he wouldn't be called a showoff, he'd be called ADHD and he'd be put on the short bus. Love those obscura windows in that school room. Good idea. If I'd a spent less time gazing out the windows I'd a probably learned something.

Detention for the lot of 'em.

To kids, being acceptaccepted or admired by their peers is very important and is Jim's primary motivation for being a PIA. If the teachers would say something that would turn him into the class laughing stock, he would no longer want that kind of attention. Rather like cutting him out of the herd..

Hurts to look at this. Reminds me of my high school days as a student an teacher.

Jim was a hot mess! 🤣🤣

Lol. Somewhat of an ominous ending, and she kept speaking of him in the past tense. Jim's body was found in a ditch just over the county line.

I keep on watching these things thinking there is going to be an ending to them. I'm an idiot.

Mid kids classes today no one tries to be the center of attention they are all texting and listening to their ear buds.

He called them ruff necks, tsk tsk tsk, he just don't know

My 8th grade class trip to Cedar Point amusement park got cancelled thanks to the "Jims" in my grade who couldn't behave. They were actually super disrespectful and not that funny. The junior high 8th grade teachers and high school teachers had special meetings about our class over the summer because of how bad we were and to prepare them for what was coming. When we got to 9th grade nobody acted like that and the teachers loved us. I guess the goofballs were humbled to be Freshman and decided to behave. Freshman class of 1994, graduated 1997. Still pissed about missing Cedar Point lol

"Ma bess GlaAsse.." Thats the first thing she said, she could've asked the kid that tripped if he was alright

Bruh I like the Jim characters. They bring some humor to this world dark world. Except for breaking the the glass ofc.

I dont think he is a show off, just a class clown.

Alright who filmed my high school classes

“My best glass” - why would she use her good glass with teens?

Guy kinda reminds me of Elvis Presley, who knows, may be he was inspired by this kid.

So a sign saying "Yea Juniors" was a huge scandal and a "badge of dishonor." Um, OK. "Someone was going to have a dangerous and difficult time getting it down." You can't just open the window and pull it off? I mean, did Jim and his friends climb up the wall or something to put it up?

no matter what generation you live in, its still somehow like the 50s..

The sign didn't look like much to me.

He would have threatened to sue today or would sue.

We always have a friend like him in school

Send the principal an argyle sweater with a dead fish in it - its an old Sicilian 'thing' it means "Jim Brester sleeps with the fishes."

Put a DUNCE hat on Jim. Simple.

0:45 "And I thought if I could tell you about it, maybe you could help us." I think I can help them. But she didn't give any contact info. No phone #, email address, FB or Twitter account, or anything. How do I get in touch with her?

Those high schoolers were more mature than today generation

I’m going to need a follow-up on a 30-year-old Jim Brewster. He really could go either way.

I don't understand the relevance of the acting scene. The one girl was jealous because the other girls were kissing Jim but she is the one who assigned the roles in the first place.

Here is the solution..... Make up a huge sign that says knock it off Jim... Put it over the front of the school make sure its huge... Way bigger than the one that Jim made. And if that doesn't work kick him out already.

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I hate how these dont show an actual ending. I get invested in the stories and hate not knowing. Trolling in the 40s/5os boss level. Sigh. On that note, I'd vote to suspend the kid, separate him from his buddies (all in separate class rooms) and go from there.

Jim was a brave kid, being that Charles Bronson was principal of the school and all. Jim is actually the only character that does not appear to have had a lobotomy.

Reminds me of me a bit when I hit 17. Shaved my "Mr.Niceguy" character...a bit only.

Wait - I was watching that! So, how did they sort it out???? Damn!!!

Mst3k joke Meeting with Floyd the Barber." "Ooo, the car is so wonderful... ooo..."🤣

Jim would be shot today he’s such a smart Aleck

I'm not certain why the sign was a scandal?

So Jim grew up to be Robin Williams.

Miss Baldwin needs to smash Jim's pee pee with a yard stick.😗

11:23 Snitches get stitches

august 21st, 2020

"Oh my best glass!" The other guy had an identical one :-) But that sign really took the biscuit;ruined the school"s reputation,discredited the students,a scandal for the county,discrace to the state and permanent stain on the country"s standards and the northern hemisphere

Those are the guys who think they own the show. Center of attention to all but it does get to you after a while.why do parents always say in my days well all times are always the same. It some kids who are the way they are.kids will be kids.

I know!!!! Medicate him

Compare this to the problems in schools these days.

Barty Crouch is their principal?

4:30 this guy reminds me of Jerry Lewis.

Is that victoria beckham before surgery 😂

This is like school in Japan. They actually care about reputation.

Back when kids went to “Skewel” and were to act like “ladies and gentlemen”

Why is there no sound coming out????

Damn it, I was Jim in middle school.

Why does Ms Baldwin have clown pom poms on her shirt if she wants to be taken seriously

I want to know what happened!

No sound???

I know a few show offs and bossy people , they are a pain in the backside .

Kids of this generation act a lot like Jim !

Jim should be voted class clown

It’s funny to think these are 50s youths. Then I watch grease and I’m like yeah, they were definitely more like that. Just trying to bang and party. Like youths in every generation

A lot of the Jims of the world wound up going to New York and being Comics or decent actors, let alone to Hollywood. they were the artistic ones, The Misfits, the ones who wouldn't conform, and the ones who often wind up going to strong careers, because they do things their own way, instead of being faceless, middle-level managers the rest of their lives. what Oscar Wilde called "lives of quiet desperation." the other freethinkers in the class, the real intellectuals headed off toschools like the University of California at Berkeley, and Harvard. They wound up being Ph.ds in political science, and writing some very good books. let's hear it for these types. these films were attempting to create a world full of quiet faceless drones, and above all else just tap out the free spirits in the freethinkers thinkers who dared not to conform to those colorless 1950s ethics.

i utterly despise her collar on her top

Jim: a showoff for messing around in theatre Anyone in theatre: 👀

Where the fuck is the LSD jim

Jim is me. I am Jim.

Jim is thirty and still in high school

Why do all these people dress like my grandmother

Aww they was narcissists in the 50s lmfao😂

These “teens” look like they’re in their thirties.

What do YOU think? So cute. As if the film is really trying to encourage independent thought.

I just love these ancient propaganda films, hehehe!!!

Make one called the millenials

This is a good argument why women should teach elementary grades and men high school. If Jim pulled any of the stunts he did when I went to school, he wouldn't have been able to sit for a week. And paddling doesn't work because of any pain it causes. The pain that is not tolerable is being humiliated in front of your entire class when you get the paddling. Our school system went to hell when corporal punishment was removed. Teachers used to paddle kids... now kids beat teachers... what progress.

Nowadays, if a kid is desperate for attention, they go on hormone blockers.

2:55 "...let me tell you what happened next." Jim Brewster changed his name to Donald Trump, and now he's PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. It seems being a show-ff can PAY off !!

I don't care if it was the 30s, 40s, 50s or whatever, no kids ever talked, thought or acted like that. These films are all the dreams of some propagandist, detached from reality.

They;re probably all dead now.

tell you what I think, Jim Brewster is awesome! and Kay Reynolds is a nark and a possible "Snob" be sure to Vote Jim Brewster for Senior Class President 1955

Could the kids of the fifties really had been as mind-numbed robots as this girl (speaker) is? My mother was out of school just about the time this was produced (lucky for her), and I don't think I ever got around to asking her how much the kids cut up, as I thought it was pretty much the same always, since school is just too boring at least seventy-five percent of the time to have you sitting there like a perfect square. From what I saw in my school years, the girls pretty much just watched, while at least half the guys were cutting up to one degree or another. Man, I'll never forget some of those spitball wars! Our greatest achievement? I was in eight grade going to a catholic school, and our teacher was a nun. She was pretty cool, so had it been anybody else we probably never would had tried this. She was coming in from the playground, to a door six of us were standing by. Somehow or other we planned this at the last second, and we split on each side of the door in threes, so she would walk between us. When she did, we all lifted our arms in the Nazi salute (I think we said Heil Hitler too). She burst out laughing for about two seconds and then suddenly the bell rang, and she composed herself real quick ("saved" by the bell) and said we better get to class for the bell. That's probably in the top three of my favorite teacher moments, that she not only could be brought to a laugh, and didn't send us to the principal, and then was so cool she went right back to business as usual. Such a cool teacher.