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Filmed in Northern California, the kids wear the common shorts (mostly) and jeans of the late 1990s. A charming little film starring Brenden Ryan Barrett.
TV-quality film, but it focuses on a group of cute elementary school children who after aggravating their unsympathetic teacher battle with an old tramp. They all wear longs. There is a humerous skinny dipping scene.
Spanish language film. A sick child tries to find his parents.
Uma História de Futebol ("A Soccer Story") is a touching, Oscar-nominated short film, only 22 minutes. An elderly man takes a nostalgic look back at the days of playing soccer in the streets of a small Brazilian town with his friends. An unforgettable match portrays future soccer star Pelé when he was a youngster. It deals with Pele, without really showing him. The movie makes Pelé as a mith. It is directed by Machline Paulo. The film shows a lot of clothing of what the children in Brazil were wearing.
John Candy movie in which he plays a boorish, but good hearted uncle. Notable for its understanding of childhood psychology, especially how parents can embarrass their kids. It is the first time I saw a rather engaging little boy about 6-7 (MacCauley Culkin). He is the nephew and ably plays his rather small role. His dead pan performance is just great for the part. Sort of a percussor to "Home Alone." Unfortunately there is no interesting costuming.
Uninteresting movie about Americans held captive in Southeast Asia. At the very beginning the captive, played by the "Small Wonder" boy, appears in his pajamas as a boy with his father.
Powerful Civil Rights film set in Alabama. The film is primarily about teenagers, but the younger boy is pictured at the beginning. No interesting costumes. Bullying is pictured at the high school. In one scene the two "liberal" boys are forced together in an effort to have them kiss.
An American boy (Orley Lingren) grows up in Europe with a father who is a crooked jockey. He tries to reform for his son's sake. The boy is about 12 or so. The young actor does his rather poorly written part well. He is outfitted in a longpants suit. The film is loosely based on Hemingway's "Under My Skin.
Dickie Moore
Jeremy Lelliot stars as a kid who wants to be a cop like
his deceased father. Jeremy wears short pantss most of the time.
A emotionally distant career woman is faced with the daunting task of raising her sister's young children.
This Clint Eastwood film has a very neat little blond boy, about 10 at the beginning of the film. He is an excellent little actor. His dialogue is very limited, but his facial expressions are superb. No interesting costumes though.
See "The Ogre".
A neighbor tries to become a surrogate mother for the son of a vulnerable, recently divorced woman. The little boy, JJ (Jake Lloyd) is about 5 years old.
Dickie Moore
A 14-year old Donnald O'Conner has a part.
Thriller set in a British boy's school. A young teacher is threatened my murderous pupils.
Story about a brother and sister who draw other children into a monstrous doll house which consumes them. I think this is the title, but am not positive. At any rate while the boy is cute, he wears longs and there are no interesting scenes.
Very well dome film. Scared by the illness of a parent, a boy seeks refuge with his oddball uncles in a delicately acted film addressing family ties. The boy appears in longish shorts. Stephen (Stephen Watt) learns to accept his unusual Jewish family. The film is a bit whimsical, but rather ponderous. Stephen wears shorts, but is rather unkempt.
Darryl Hickman
Figure 2.--Many scenes in the East German film "Der Untergang der Emma" are set in school. Notice the girl to the right who is the only child wearing a red Young Pioneer scarfe. |
The title of this film was "Der Untergang der Emma" which would translate as something like "The Downfall of Emma. It was a children's film made in East Germay (DDR). We are not sure about he date, but we would guess about 1986 as a very rough estimate. We do not know a great deal about the film. It was a tale about
a couple of kids about 12 years old who amongst other things borrow their grand fathers boat and nearly sink after an accident with a bridge. The usual scenes of parades and East German propaganda are there as well as many the school scenes. The boys have long hair. Most wear long pants to school, but some boys wear short pants. Interestingly almost none of the children wear their red Young Pioneer scarves. As late as the 1970s, wearung their Young Pioneer scarves to school was much more common. We are not sure how to interpret this, hopefully our German readers might have some insights.
See "Aparajito."
The outcast sons of an Arab sheik, a Mafia boss, a corrupt politician, and a greedy evangelist run rampant at a military prep school, Weinberg Academy. The academy is basically a boarding school that accepts problem kids. It comes with a sadistic leader and gay dance teacher. Ralph Macchio, Ron Liebman.
"Upper World" from 1934 is a Depression-era drama about the lifestyles of the wealthy. Railroad magnate Alex Stream, his wife, and son, Tommy, live in a posh
home on Long Island. They are surrounded by servants who cater to their every need. All is not idyllic, however. Mrs. Stream is an active member of high
society whose time is spent, it seems, at parties and on vacations. Neglected by his wife, Alex begins a love interest with a show girl, Lily. They are able to
conceal their affair from everyone except Lily's conniving stage manager, Louie. Louie decides to blackmail Alex, but his scheme fails when Alex refuses. A gunfight follows, and Louie accidentally kills Lily. Alex then shoots Louie in self defense. Eventually, the police connect Alex to the sootings. In the meantime Mrs. Stream, tired of her empty life, reconciles with Alex. Alex is acquitted and he, his wifr, Tommy, and the chauffeur set off for England and
a second honeymoon. Dickie Moore has a small role as Tommy.
Figure 3.--This scene from "Uprising" shows the market in Warwaw just before the German invasion. The boy on the right selling green groceries wears a green tweed jacket, grey short pants, and grey long stockings and hightop shoes. The boy mounting the steps wears a flat cap, a dark suit with short pants, grey ankle socks, and hightop shoes. |
This 2001 American film is about he Jewish uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto during 1943. It was directed by Jon Avnet. It starred Jon Voight, Donald Sutherland and Cary Elwes and contains some historically accurate illustrations of boys' clothing. We have several images of the film. The movie is an absorbing dramatization of the Jewish uprising against their Nazi oppressers in the Jewish ghetto in Warwaw in 1943. The events of the story are quite true and quite harrowing. Jon Voight played Major-General Stroop, the Nazi commander and Cary Elwes played Dr. Fritz Hippler, a
propaganda civilian employed by the Nazis to make films showing the Jews to be
little better than vermin. Donald Sutherland plays the leader of the Jews in
the ghetto who is eventually forced to commit suicide. One scene shows Dr.
Korczak with his orphan boys in the ghetto, an episode that can be
interestingly compared with the Polish film, Korczak, directed by Andrzej
Wajda, a scene from which I sent you recently and example. Here the boys are
packing for their fatal train journey to the concentration camp where they are
slaughtered. Dr. Korczak is cheering them up and trying to get them to regard
the impending journey as a kind of adventure. The boys are dressed in the
same way as the boys in the Polish film and in fact the director may have
copied the clothing styles.
Two conniving room mates in a Canadian boarding school match wits with their strict headmaster. Students at the coeducational St. Martin's prep school learn about life and rebellion in a funny, touching way. The students children are older teens, as if the entire school was composed of upperclassmen. All of the boys wear longs, except for sports.
Tensions run high in a 1945 French village as residents ponder who among them were NAZI collaborators. One of the main characters is the village school master who, because his school is bombed out, hold classes in the village pub (or whatever the French call it). Interestingly the pub operator becomes a lover of literature as he listens in to the lessons. Many of his boys wear shorts and knee socks, but I didn't notice any smocks in the bits I saw. Unfortunately the film mostly shoots around the kids.
I haven't seen the film, but a boy about 11 or so is featured in the promos. Another smaller curly-haired boy is also involved.
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