Description: "Presents several actual juvenile delinquency cases to show how one city handles its juvenile problems. Demonstrates the policeman's method of handling the case, and reviews the purpose and operation of the Juvenile Court in a community" (Educational Film/Video Locator, 3rd Edition). With excellent footage of early-1960s white teenagers at leisure in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
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Subjects: 1960s, Youth, Law enforcement
Tags: trespassing; teenagers dancing in building at night; jubilant noisemaking; teenage transgression; police officers; arresting juvenile offenders; unmarked police cars; detectives; delinquency; children; teenagers; social workers; psychiatrists; Dieruff High School; little league; baseball; court rooms; car chases; car theft; adolescence; gangs; arrests; joy riding; parents; badge number 69; police officer peeping through a cracked window with a flashlight; dramatizations; narration; juvenile delinquents; confiscated items; interrogation; clarinet music; motorcycle cop pulling a car over; teenagers fighting; teenagers hanging out in parking lots; teenagers hanging out in front of diner; Asphalt Angels jackets; pan over pegboard with weapons confiscated from teenagers; juvenile officer speaking with priest; Allentown, Pennsylvania street scenes; police car chasing adult driver; policeman fires warning shot in the air during chase; police officers stopping stolen vehicle; Bethlehem, Pennsylvania street scenes; many scenes of teenagers hanging out on street shot from moving police cars; police officer apologizing to youth for treating him roughly; teenagers on street dressed formally for evening dance; police-community relations; youth at walk-up diner window; youth dancing in parking lot; teenagers eating in diner;
Film Sponsor: Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare
Creator: Affiliated Film Producers, Irving Jacoby
Credits: Directed by: Irving Jacoby;
An Affiliated Film Production
Sponsored by the: Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare with the cooperation of the Pennsylvania Chiefs of Police Association and The Pennsylvania Council of Juvenile Court Judges, The Pennsylvania State Police
Written by: Irving Jacoby and Peter Hansen
Photographed by: Jesse Paley
Edited by Edward Packer;
Original Music by Edward Bland
Psychiatric Consultant: Richard L. Frank, M.D.
Executive Director MHFB (Mental Health Film Board): Alberta Jacoby
Production Manager: Peter Hansen
Consulting agencies:
Pennsylvania Bureau of Community Mental Health Services
Pennsylvania Bureau of Youth Services
"All the young people who appeared in the film are law abiding junior citizens of Allentown and Bethlehem, Pa., who contributed their services as a tribute to the Police Departments of their cities."
Distributor:
Contributor: Roger Beebe
Source Collection: Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive
Production Date:
Release Date: 1963
Geographical Location: USA; Pennsylvania; Allentown, Pennsylvania; Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Genre/Form: social guidance, educational
Language: eng
Rights:
Film Format: 16mm film
Element: release print
Color: b&w
Color Process:
Sound or Silent: sound
Film Soundtrack Type: variable area
Edge Code:
Frame Rate: 24 fps
Length (feet): 1373