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NOBODY WAVED GOOD-BYE 1964
CAN film. The 1960s generation-gap is the star of this film. Nobody Waved Good-Bye began life as a half-hour documentary tentatively titled First Offense, about probation officers dealing with juvenile delinquents. It was originally planned that using occasional fictional scenes would help to best tell the story. However, as shooting began, it was decided to turn the project into a feature film focusing on a college-aged boy from the suburbs growing into adulthood. No screenplay was ever written. The director and actors would discuss the scene and rough out what they wanted to do. All the dialogue was improvised based on the discussions, and the shooting would begin. The film was shot over three weeks in the summer and winter of 1963.

Eighteen-year-old Peter (Peter Kastner, who in 1969 starred in ABC-TV’s The Ugliest Girl In Town) lives with his parents in a middle-class Toronto suburb and revolts against their middle-class goals and conventions and materialist values. He constantly mocks and belittles his family with his only real ally being his girlfriend Julie (Julie Biggs). Peter's relationship with his parents reaches its boiling point when he borrows his father's car without permission, is arrested for reckless driving, and is left by his father to spend the night in jail. Peter runs away from home and moves into a rooming house, and eventually gets a shady job as a parking attendant. His relationship with Julie becomes more complicated and he finally realizes that being alone in the real world is much harder than he ever imagined.

The popularity of folk music is given a nod via scenes depicting informal hootenannies and guitar and banjo songs. One scene, in which Peter is working at a parking lot, was shot with hidden cameras. All the patrons are real, and they don’t know they’re being filmed. One woman recognizes Kastner and, surprised to see the actor working at the lot, has a conversation with him without realizing that she is in a movie. Peter Kastner, Julie Biggs, Claude Rae, Toby Tarnow, Charmion King, Ron Taylor, John Vernon (Dean Vernon Wormer).

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CAR THEFT 1956
U.S. educational film. Buffalo, NY. This film is a real bummer! We're introduced to a nice mother, her cute little pre-school daughter, a fine-looking teenage chick, and three juvenile delinquent boys. Through a series of events the three hoods, (who act like dorks) steal a '55 black and red Pontiac convertible, pick up the teenage chick, and get chased by the police. The tension mounts, the narrator starts to hint at impending doom. The car is speeding around a corner—hey, where is that cute little girl and her mother? Gulp! You'll find out!

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