How Honest Are You? (1950)

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  • čas přidán 5. 11. 2010
  • For teenagers, honesty can come easy or hard, depending on the stakes.
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  • @palaceofwisdom9448
    @palaceofwisdom9448 Před 3 lety +90

    I can honestly say that I immediately noticed we couldn't actually see what Bob took from the locker. It's clever that they worked in a lesson about jumping to conclusions.

  • @lisammyers
    @lisammyers Před 2 lety +24

    One of my favorite quotes has to do with honesty like this when it comes to knowing the truth before telling others. It's something like "a lie can get halfway around the world before truth has a chance to put its pants on."

  • @heidifedor
    @heidifedor Před 7 lety +76

    Nick has gotten bigger since he starred in "What To Do On A Date".

  • @migueldavies
    @migueldavies Před 11 lety +92

    Boy, I wish everybody talked like this in present day.

    • @msbrowngault
      @msbrowngault Před 5 lety +3

      How? To themselves?

    • @monkeynumbernine
      @monkeynumbernine Před 4 lety +3

      I do too

    • @crumpfamilyvalues7935
      @crumpfamilyvalues7935 Před 3 lety +3

      It would be swell

    • @MeadeSkeltonMusic
      @MeadeSkeltonMusic Před 3 lety +4

      @@NerdyNEET Hardly. It was fading by that time. I was a little kid then. They would make fun of how those in the 50s and 60s spoke.

    • @calvinjackson8110
      @calvinjackson8110 Před rokem

      I don't get what you mean about how those kids talked in the 1950s and 60s. What way did they talk??

  • @gregoryagogo
    @gregoryagogo Před 5 lety +54

    GREAT FILM... It covers so much about one little scene, and how perceptions and motives play apart... very complex.

  • @tj921able
    @tj921able Před rokem +5

    I know many people today who could use it to watch this film. Thank you for sharing it. God Bless You & stay safe.

  • @bonbivins2217
    @bonbivins2217 Před 7 lety +155

    Now in days people call you a snitch for doing the right thing.

    • @asielmilian38
      @asielmilian38 Před 5 lety +6

      True.

    • @Barbe
      @Barbe Před 4 lety +6

      Only trash and Low Caliber call others "Snitches" over doing the right thing.

    • @srchnfrcj
      @srchnfrcj Před 3 lety +5

      @@Barbe Sometimes it ain't the move. You protect the ones you care about. You never rat on friends or family.

    • @rowancallahan3154
      @rowancallahan3154 Před 2 lety +1

      Exactly

    • @stoundingresults
      @stoundingresults Před rokem

      ​@@srchnfrcj The Unabomber Ted Kazinsky was up to like 8 murders from his bombs and his brother recognized his writting style on the manifesto. Ted Kazinsky wanted his letter printed on newspapers nationwide and his brother reported how he could be suspect. When they found his cabin in the woods the FBI also found unassembled bombs.

  • @sophierobinson2738
    @sophierobinson2738 Před 3 lety +22

    I thought Bob came back to get something the other guy forgot in his locker.

    • @TheErraticGardener
      @TheErraticGardener Před rokem +1

      The way he looked around before he opened the locker made it look suspicious. If Ben sent him, he wouldn’t need to look around first.

  • @bridgetzorn5717
    @bridgetzorn5717 Před 11 lety +35

    I watched because I thought it would be cool but I actually learned

  • @EErika31684
    @EErika31684 Před 6 lety +104

    these videos should be a mandatory requirement for kids to graduate

  • @vintagegirl68
    @vintagegirl68 Před 4 lety +8

    Wow, the whole world needs this

  • @kamsavart
    @kamsavart Před 5 lety +25

    Back in jr.high we had a thief going into our lockers during P.E. After me and a few others noticed our money missing I put 2 & 2 together and realized it must've been the coach's assistant since he was always last coming out of the locker room. I reported it and don't remember seeing him after that.

    • @akavitsuma
      @akavitsuma Před 4 lety +1

      Honest!

    • @AntiAtheismIsUnstoppable
      @AntiAtheismIsUnstoppable Před 4 lety +2

      Did you ask him if he had stolen your money?

    • @kamsavart
      @kamsavart Před 4 lety +5

      @@AntiAtheismIsUnstoppable After reporting him to our coach we no longer saw him. That gave us a clue.

    • @eckankar7756
      @eckankar7756 Před rokem +6

      I had someone stealing my lunch in the break room at work years ago. I started making tuna sandwiches with Friskes Cat Food, egg, mayo nice bread. After a week I announced whoever was stealing my lunch had been eating cat food. The stealing stopped.

    • @TP-om8of
      @TP-om8of Před rokem

      @@eckankar7756 You jerk!! That was me!

  • @doe9de995
    @doe9de995 Před rokem +9

    When the boy went into the locker, it didn't appear very clear what he was doing in it. They are all getting upset over something they know nothing about. He could have had permission to go into the locker. You should never assume something.

  • @emilyadams9986
    @emilyadams9986 Před 4 lety +59

    All of this could have been avoided if the lockers had actually had locks on them.

    • @AntiAtheismIsUnstoppable
      @AntiAtheismIsUnstoppable Před 4 lety +8

      That wasn't needed back then because everyone was so honest. You didn't really need to lock the door to your house either.

    • @oksills
      @oksills Před 3 lety +6

      No one ever even thought if locks; they would have been insulted by the suggestion of the possible need. You’ve missed the point........the entire current lack of character and morality that was common to every one back then.

    • @MH-yj4qq
      @MH-yj4qq Před 3 lety +3

      @@AntiAtheismIsUnstoppable absolutely untrue. We actually have a much lower crime rate than then

    • @GREALER
      @GREALER Před 2 lety +1

      Not many black kids back then

    • @theroadlesstraveled3993
      @theroadlesstraveled3993 Před rokem +2

      @@MH-yj4qq I've heard this before but I don't believe it.

  • @annettekelly1592
    @annettekelly1592 Před 3 lety +5

    This would be good advise today (2020-2021) for media, social and news!

  • @DanWindibank
    @DanWindibank Před 11 lety +25

    I just watched it all to find out what really happened.

  • @lyriakey
    @lyriakey Před 4 lety +12

    A room full of snitching teens would this even be possible these days.

  • @bin2805
    @bin2805 Před 5 lety +25

    I didn't know they had tables and such to hang out and talk at in DRUG STORES during the 50's. Pretty interesting

    • @karenblack7182
      @karenblack7182 Před 5 lety +8

      bin ™ Oh yes indeed. The drug stores were much more than places to buy aspirin. And the food at those lunch counters could be pretty good.

    • @msbrowngault
      @msbrowngault Před 5 lety +6

      The malt/soda shop

    • @armorybrunotjr.3204
      @armorybrunotjr.3204 Před 5 lety +7

      Pharmacies were much different, for the most part. Peoples used to have soda fountains during the 1950s and 1960s.

    • @bunnyfoofoo9695
      @bunnyfoofoo9695 Před 4 lety +1

      Rootbeer Floats are my kryptonite!.....lol..

    • @redwingfan9393
      @redwingfan9393 Před 3 lety

      Drug stores were known for lunch counters and soda/ice cream fountains in the first half of the 20th century. They largely faded from popularity in the 60's and by the 80's independent drug stores were closing all over the place.

  • @eckankar7756
    @eckankar7756 Před rokem +5

    Weird to have to save up to buy a pen, even wait till your aunt gave you birthday money. Back when they used fountain pens.

  • @jons.6216
    @jons.6216 Před rokem +2

    I still can't get over that "magical blackboard" that looks all smeared up when the coach first erased it and then it got clean and clear a few times off and on!! Haha! Maybe it was Rose's punishment to clean it for her wiley ways!!

  • @RagDollCookie
    @RagDollCookie Před 2 lety +3

    Ben looks like someone I know but I can't quite place him. I love finding historical doppelgangers!

  • @Phendraana
    @Phendraana Před 11 lety +56

    I love that weird formal accent people had back then. I'm gonna start talking like that :D

    • @sussiea9221
      @sussiea9221 Před 4 lety +5

      Good luck to that 🤣🤣

    • @Saskatchetooner
      @Saskatchetooner Před 4 lety +7

      They would have never have said “ gonna “

    • @collectiblesnrandomstuff544
      @collectiblesnrandomstuff544 Před 2 lety +9

      I was a teen in the 50s people didn’t actually talked like this , this kind of accent was only used by actors on tv and movies , to be honest we all talked pretty dirty just like today’s youth.

    • @MybeautifulandamazingPrincess
      @MybeautifulandamazingPrincess Před rokem +2

      @@collectiblesnrandomstuff544 Maybe your view of the world isn't as wide as you think

    • @calvinjackson8110
      @calvinjackson8110 Před rokem +2

      What weird accent? They all spoke English.

  • @weepingshadesofindigo575
    @weepingshadesofindigo575 Před 4 lety +4

    Bob is in so many of these films

  • @Shogun-qs6sv
    @Shogun-qs6sv Před 2 lety +3

    Honesty is great but often once you spill the beans you can't un tell it. And most people can't handle the truth.

  • @aproverbshome173
    @aproverbshome173 Před 2 lety +5

    Our media and government could benefit from this video... lol!!!

  • @BBKUK79
    @BBKUK79 Před 7 lety +10

    Terry's jump shot tho...awkward

  • @heathstjohn6775
    @heathstjohn6775 Před 4 lety +2

    Maybe more idealized people,even then,than living ones;but,oh yes!,great examples to set for others.Although each time presents the best and worst of humanity,a greater proliferation of these ideals today should surely help.But I think that whilst many should be helped,degradation has been enjoyed so much,since,by so many,many are glad to remain irredeemable.

  • @shitlordfm3345
    @shitlordfm3345 Před 4 lety +30

    Its funny how during all this time, nobody decided to tell the kid whose actual money got stolen that his classmate took shit out of his locker. Lol

    • @bunnyfoofoo9695
      @bunnyfoofoo9695 Před 4 lety +1

      They were hoping for a false confession........lol....

  • @jager896
    @jager896 Před 2 lety +1

    Honesty is the best policy Eileen

  • @MaybeAnthony
    @MaybeAnthony Před 5 lety +6

    Them little ass basketball shorts! haha

  • @cherylevans23
    @cherylevans23 Před 4 lety +7

    Please forward this to CNN and the NY Times

    • @palaceofwisdom9448
      @palaceofwisdom9448 Před 3 lety +1

      Your comment is so much funnier as they currently try to bury the Hunter Biden hard drive scandal.

    • @sophierobinson2738
      @sophierobinson2738 Před 3 lety

      Palace Of Wisdom Which is all a lie. It's fox that needs the lesson.

  • @argonwheatbelly637
    @argonwheatbelly637 Před rokem +1

    Gee whiz, Rose is a swell gal. Terry's a lucky guy!
    She'll lie, cheat, steal, and kill for him. You can't buy that kind of loyalty any more.

  • @TJ-kk5zf
    @TJ-kk5zf Před 4 lety +6

    ... starring Jerry Sandusky

  • @classycynic6330
    @classycynic6330 Před 4 lety +3

    Number 8 may have been asked to bring something to the owner of that locker.

  • @lissettesbloom8223
    @lissettesbloom8223 Před 5 lety +6

    Why would Bob take money then go play ball with the money? I don’t think Bob took money. I think it was a miss understanding.

  • @MoonPhaze5
    @MoonPhaze5 Před 10 měsíci +1

    He should have gone to confront Bob as soon as he could get him alone.

  • @talosheeg
    @talosheeg Před 6 lety +3

    That guy in plaid looks a lot like a guy I saw in an old LAUSD video about keeping a job

  • @danadoozer9990
    @danadoozer9990 Před 4 lety +4

    He stole money to buy....a pen? This is high scandal.

    • @jaminova_1969
      @jaminova_1969 Před 3 lety

      I confess! I stole somebodies pen, maybe more than once!

  • @MarkTitus420
    @MarkTitus420 Před rokem +3

    This looks like it might have been an old school training film that kids at school were required to watch. I remember being in charge of the AV equipment and I used to have to torture the kids with these types of short films but in the 1970's though.

  • @Bunny-pr8gw
    @Bunny-pr8gw Před 3 lety +1

    Bob kinda cute with that smile at the end ;)

  • @markt857
    @markt857 Před 5 lety +5

    Whenever I see these I remember The Pee Wee Herman Special where he aired. The "Don't be a Mr. Bungles" episode.

  • @moorek1967
    @moorek1967 Před 11 lety +3

    Maybe Mike McQueary and Joe Paterno should have seen this video, "hmmm, what DO you do? Hmm, what DO you do? Gee, I can't think of anything".

  • @mikeduels
    @mikeduels Před 11 lety +12

    "So what did we learn today kids?"
    "NO SNITCHING"
    "ain't it the truth"

  • @NmaM-it5yk
    @NmaM-it5yk Před rokem +2

    “And the next day Bob mowed them all down with a tommy gun for blabbing on him”

  • @ziggycat999
    @ziggycat999 Před 11 lety +10

    "But I know where he got the extra money to buy a pen".Huh????

  • @biblereadingoutreach2284

    2 Corinthians 8:21
    Providing for honest things, not only in the sight of the Lord✝️, but also in the sight of men.

  • @spinal2650
    @spinal2650 Před 11 lety +9

    This PSA is presented by the makers of SNITCHIN!

  • @BakeryHobbit
    @BakeryHobbit Před 3 lety +1

    I just watched this over again and Bob should have just asked Ben to get the whistle out of his pants okay that didn't come out right.. also I noticed that everybody seemed to want to take the blame kind of like if you think somebody's going to be mad at you and you get mad at yourself and that might keep them from getting mad at you

  • @MeadeSkeltonMusic
    @MeadeSkeltonMusic Před 2 lety

    That gal has a deep tenor voice

  • @poetcomic1
    @poetcomic1 Před 3 lety +1

    Coronet version of Rashomon.

  • @philipinchina
    @philipinchina Před rokem

    As far as bints are considered I am dishonest!

  • @viridianstar
    @viridianstar Před 11 lety +5

    That's because your grandparents were probably teenagers in the 1950s...

  • @4otrot65
    @4otrot65 Před rokem

    Express to explain inc yourself in a matter not to solicit response because to express is to innocently convey all around from emotions to bias etc. It's not officially objective enough for use to interact as a given where response is expected. Just express to learn....

  • @maunster3414
    @maunster3414 Před 4 lety +6

    I didn't catch what Bob had to say. Maybe Bob went into the other guy's locker to retrieve payment for something.

  • @idiotwind2248
    @idiotwind2248 Před rokem +1

    So how'd the team do?

  • @gregoryagogo
    @gregoryagogo Před 5 lety +3

    BLACKMAIL BOB!

  • @hollyvelocitygrl
    @hollyvelocitygrl Před 11 lety +3

    I think people will just call you a bad actor

  • @brianarbenz1329
    @brianarbenz1329 Před rokem

    Mr. Barker ordered them to talk through the 4th wall.

  • @agnidas5816
    @agnidas5816 Před rokem

    Bobs action was neither honest nor dishonest. It is impossible to test his honesty in that moment.
    Man ... the 80's through till about 2003 was the height of English language after all ..

  • @baronsorgi1
    @baronsorgi1 Před 5 lety +1

    So someone blew the whistle on him but he had the whistle that they needn't to blow plus it just about came to blows between everyone involved so that guy's girlfriend blew everyone

  • @cellytron
    @cellytron Před 2 lety

    I was watching this in a room with a lot of noise, and for a second I did a double take because I thought he said a rather vulgar word beginning with s, instead of "Nick", at 4:06 🤣. Either one would have worked in that instance!
    "Gee Nick, I never thought about it that way."
    "$#!÷, I never thought about it that way!'

  • @kayakdog121
    @kayakdog121 Před rokem +2

    Gee, this is swell!

  • @WilliamMorales-ke3rw
    @WilliamMorales-ke3rw Před 10 měsíci

    Ok but can we talk about how beautiful shawty is??!

  • @rexlex1736
    @rexlex1736 Před 4 lety +1

    Now remember boys, if you're gonna steal, make you sure you don't get caught! And also remember that practice makes perfect! Enough of the pep talk! Now go out and bring back all the new iPhones that you can!

  • @JeffersonDinedAlone
    @JeffersonDinedAlone Před 11 lety +11

    Ahh.. the old "I bought something with the money that my aunt gave me for my birthday" ploy... What the kids don't know is that Bob has a growing drug business, and had completed half a dozen dope deals before lunch. And it had allowed him to recently rent warehouse space for the chop shop for his growing car theft ring. Bob is an operator, and earning far more than Susie and Frank do at one of the local hamburger joints. And, best of all, Bob pays no taxes. Rock on, Bob, you bad boy, you.

    • @AntiAtheismIsUnstoppable
      @AntiAtheismIsUnstoppable Před 4 lety +3

      But that's not all. In ten years, Bob is going to be the city's mayor, now having easy access to the city's court and police, who are also corrupt af, they all are now part of Bobs business.

  • @biblereadingoutreach2284

    Romans 12:17
    Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.

  • @Swallowtails-wc7ed
    @Swallowtails-wc7ed Před 3 lety

    👍

  • @thomasbinninger1355
    @thomasbinninger1355 Před 2 lety

    Poor bob.he never made it in sound pictures.

  • @nobody8328
    @nobody8328 Před rokem

    A Fair Witness will only comment on things that they have seen themselves.
    If you ask a Fair Witness what color the house in front of them is, they will tell you "it's white on this side".

  • @Eszra
    @Eszra Před 11 lety +7

    I feel like something like this happened to me once. A friend had something she needed and was going to let me borrow in her locker when I was Grade School and I went to get it, then someone told a teacher which made it to my teacher. I don't know if it was the same day or not but both my friend and I were brought to talk with the teacher and we told her everything, I don't know who it was that said anything but they must of known they were wrong cause no rumors spread or anything.

  • @84glewis
    @84glewis Před 5 lety +1

    Isn't Mr. Barker, the teacher, Bob Eubanks of the Newlywed game?

  • @biblereadingoutreach2284

    Matthew 18:15-16 Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.
    But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.

  • @pjhans4516
    @pjhans4516 Před 3 lety +6

    Moral of the story: A woman can never keep a secret 😂

    • @sophierobinson2738
      @sophierobinson2738 Před 3 lety +4

      My friend in 3rd grade to me a secret and I've kept it for so long I've forgotten what it was. I'm 68 now.

  • @kac327
    @kac327 Před 7 lety

    See that girl.... 0:18

  • @redwingfan9393
    @redwingfan9393 Před 3 lety +1

    We assume that Bob wasn't told to go grab whatever it is he took. Why did anyone assume theft? Also, Terry shoots like a girl.

  • @umangbarthwal3643
    @umangbarthwal3643 Před 2 lety +1

    HSS F343

  • @jaminova_1969
    @jaminova_1969 Před 3 lety +2

    I would have simply had the boys waterboard Bob, until he confessed!

  • @drkitkatfluttershy2119
    @drkitkatfluttershy2119 Před 4 lety +2

    Original wwyd

  • @butterbean3676
    @butterbean3676 Před 11 měsíci

    And here i was thinking he was taking condoms!

  • @goromaster10
    @goromaster10 Před 12 lety

    Soooooo funny!!! xD

  • @user-bq3tw9bm3k
    @user-bq3tw9bm3k Před 5 lety

    Wow. So much pain and anguish and lost sleep over an alleged stolen dollar??? Holy shit these people have a lot to learn in the up and coming world. Snitches get stitches and end up in ditches. It's just a fucking dollar.

  • @BakeryHobbit
    @BakeryHobbit Před 11 lety +2

    the teenagers talk like grandparents and look like them too.

  • @RenaissanceMan888
    @RenaissanceMan888 Před 6 lety +1

    Snitches get Stitches, JIM! 🔪😮🔫

  • @allieb4132
    @allieb4132 Před 3 lety +1

    Rose was a jerk.

  • @zergmare7
    @zergmare7 Před 11 lety +1

    LOL you are halarious

  • @caballopalido
    @caballopalido Před 6 lety +1

    poindexters

  • @TJ-kk5zf
    @TJ-kk5zf Před 4 lety +2

    How exactly did Jim have our point of view?...um
    .. and Jane too--- why the hell is she in the locker room???... even Bob's point of view is our point of view...

  • @abbadabbba232
    @abbadabbba232 Před 5 lety +25

    Rose: "So I guess I wasn't very honest."
    Coach: "Oh, don't worry Rose, you're a girl. What you did is typical manipulative female behavior. You cannot help it."
    Rose: "Thank you, coach. I'm gonna go shopping now, bye boys!"

    • @edwardgaines6561
      @edwardgaines6561 Před 5 lety +4

      Yup. Women always get the "pussy pass"...until they turn 35.

    • @GrzegorzDurda
      @GrzegorzDurda Před 4 lety +1

      @@lazyhomebody1356 precisely

    • @Lulabellexd
      @Lulabellexd Před 4 lety +2

      LOL. Tbh I thought Rose was the actual worst! Her motives were so shady

    • @allieb4132
      @allieb4132 Před 3 lety +1

      And you, sir, have major issues with women.

    • @allieb4132
      @allieb4132 Před 3 lety

      Lara she was a meddling busy body

  • @Lulabellexd
    @Lulabellexd Před 4 lety +2

    Wow Rose is not a good person

  • @CaptainLongDongsilver
    @CaptainLongDongsilver Před 4 lety +1

    Remember kids ..snitches get stitches.

  • @TP-om8of
    @TP-om8of Před rokem

    Bob is such a liar

  • @michellemartinez1994
    @michellemartinez1994 Před 8 lety +1

    bob's not cool

  • @timgore829
    @timgore829 Před 3 lety

    Snitches get stitches.

  • @rogerbartlet5720
    @rogerbartlet5720 Před 10 měsíci +1

    I guess Joe Biden missed this one :(

  • @leroyproud294
    @leroyproud294 Před 4 lety

    Look here Jim, mind your own damn business and don't go running your mouth!

  • @TP-om8of
    @TP-om8of Před rokem

    Honesty sucks

  • @freddyfurrah3789
    @freddyfurrah3789 Před rokem

    73 later we all know that Bob is a THIEF.😅