“Ask Me, Don’t Tell Me”, a 1961 documentary from the Prelinger Archives about the “Youth For Service” program for teenage gangs in San Francisco.
via The Retro Blog
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Awesome. What blows my mind is that it was produced by the Quakers of all folks.
This is awesome. Greasers RULE.
The jazzy intro is the tops!
It IS awesome. Not surprising that the Quakers did this: AFS was resolutely liberal and tolerant, and inclusive. Their POV in this doc was fairly radical for the time. In the opening, the “Shoes” the narrator refers to are the White Shoes, a big gang from the Mission district in the late 50s. A cool, more white-bread companion to this would be kinescopes of ‘Dick Stewart’s KPIX Dance Party’ from the same period, but they likely don’t exist.