It’s The Age Of The Teenager (1958)

Music, clothes and dancing. The life of a teenager in 1958 documented for you. Full title reads: “It’s The Age Of The Teenager“. Intertitle reads: “Squares, the Cats say you’ve had it at 20. No Hep, and you’re not with it“. London. Various shots of young people dancing at Jazz club. Shots of band playing. LV Le Macabre Coffee House in Soho, teenagers standing outside. SV Int. Waitress with two cups of Espresso coffee. LV Teenage skiffle group playing. CU Guitar player. SV Types listening, one girl with skull on her lap and her elbow resting on it. SV Skeleton hanging up amidst cobwebs. CU Hand strumming guitar. CU Hands beating time on teeth of skull. CU Two girls beating time with their hands. CU Drum being played. SV Teenage boy and girl seated at coffin-like table with a skull on it, the boy starts to speak. Lady Lewisham is interviewed about teenagers - she thinks they are ’Splendid’. Shots of young women in typing class. GV of busy shopping street. CU Int. sign in shop reading ’Teenag