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Youth: In Search of Morality

Directed by Beryl Fox
Canada, 1966 (documentary, English)
Also known as "Youth"

Film Description:
"The topic of sex and teenagers is looked at from the point of view of the teenager and of the clergy. University students discuss attitude towards premarital sex. Included are: the forms of teenage entertainment; the proclamation of sex in the media and in contemporary music; the manner in which morality and sex, from the Christian point of view, is explained to young children."
-- Library and Archives Canada (source)

Film Description [in French] :
"Les adolescents et la sexualité dans les années soixante."
-- Jana Vosikovska (source)


Film Credits (partial):
Produced by: Douglas Leiterman
Narrator: John Drainie
Film Editing: Henry Fiks, Don Haig
Production Company: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
(sources)

Quote about Youth: In Search of Morality

"With little fuss—and virtually no fanfare—producer Douglas Leiterman last night aired his hour-long documentary, 'Youth: In Search of Morality.' This was the program that had more than its share of woe over a period of nearly two years in the making. The climax occurred three weeks ago when a story broke that director Beryl Fox got carried away shooting one sequence and had kept the cameras rolling when her crew found two boys in bed with a girl. In the silly outrage that followed, Leiterman and his staff worked around the clock editing the film, hoping to show it as the next-to-last offering in the period occupied by 'This Hour Has Seven Days.' But CBC management said no to that idea. Last night during the same time period, on a summer documentary series called 'The Human Camera,' the film was at last put on public view. Significantly, the executive producer of the series is Beryl Fox."
-- Toronto Star (source)

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