A Day Of Thanksgiving by Centron Productions Courtesy Prelinger Archives Cold War-era educational film. A family who cannot afford a turkey at Thanksgiving reviews what they have to be thankful about.
I am an old lady now, but I can say I remember that time and it was a wonderful time. Families ate dinner together, newspapers publishedtrue facts,you got milk butter and even ice cream delivered to your door, and neighbors actually socialized with each other. People played cards on Friday or Saturday nights with their friends,had dinner parties and cookouts. We kids played outside til the fireflies came out and mom called us in . There was very little divorce,and people married their high school sweethearts. Weddings were simple sweet parties in the church hall and a lot of those bridal gowns were hand sewn. It was a simpler, happier time. I do not think life has improved on it. I became a feminist in the 70s, but I have come to realize those days in the past were much, much better than now.
Hmmm not all families ate dinner together and today many families still eat dinner together and they definitely get together for Thanksgiving. That time might have been wonderful for you, but thats just nostalgia talking. There were dirty, nasty little dramas going on at those sweet get togethers, you just didn't see because you were an oblivious kid, and people pretended the ugly didn't exist rather than dealing with it. Maybe your family wasn't dysfunctional but many were then, just like now. At that time people just lied about the awful things (my mom who was born in 1936 was being abused by her stepfather but she was forced to pretend everything was ok. She had no recourse or rights). These days, familys who live very far from each other are able to see each other face to face and be engaged in each other's daily lives. In your day they rarely saw each other, they may as well been dead. Kids still go out and play but their play is also different. People still have parties and cookouts and lots of get togethers. A vast variety of foods are available. Oranges, bananas, pinapples. If you grew up in the Midwest in your time I bet you never even knew what a mango was. Veggies had to be canned, now you can get them fresh all year long. Anything anyone wants to know is at the tips of their fingers, they dont have to bow to misinformation like Fox news, or the lies of a fascist president, they can research the news and don't have to just accept what talking heads tell them to believe. You should try it. In your day, knowledge cost lots of money. Now, if a kid wants to know why he can just Google it and get the facts, and they know so much more at 12 than you do at 102. Bet you hate that too. I notice lots of old people absolutely hate the power that knowledge gives the young. People don't have to stay in loveless, abusive marriages because their neighbors wont shun or judge them for leaving. They don't have to pretend to people that their life is like, Leave it to Beaver, to keep up appearances. Women and men can choose not to marry or not have kids and not be chided for not conforming. Men and women don't have to pretend like they are not gay and lie and enter into marriage just to be accepted. On the whole we live in a much better time. No... Life is much better now. I would hate to live in the social prison of your time. The only thing I am sad about is the divisiness of our country, people who say they would rather be russian than democrats. Or that young people are useless or have it bad because they don't conform to your antiquated ideals... There is no more united we stand...
It’s so true but it’s also because they’ve been afforded so much more today that they wouldn’t know. Parents remember how they didn’t have this or that and so made certain their children wouldn’t experience the same but unfortunately not all are taught the value of other things while receiving so much. I’ve traveled to countries where they have very little and because they haven’t been afforded so many comforts and material things they are so thankful for the simple things and genuinely appreciate things like necessities like school, books, food , clothes and friends/family.
This was our generation of growing up.. .Thankful for everything. .the telephone, the car , the food , the warm water , bathrooms and all new technologies. Cozy in the livingroom just reading, playing games, was all we could ask for.
I remember a lot of thanksgivings that we had a whole chicken instead of a Turkey or even a deer roast. Whatever daddy would kill, trap, or catch but we never went hungry or needed for. God bless my daddy, he gave us everything he could......God rest his heart
At least u Didn’t go hungry I remember when I was about 9 or 10 and my mom was working my big sister with her friends and I was almost crying cause we had no turkey cooking and all my friends were all at home cooking! And I kept thinking why isn’t my mom home cooking! I remember feeling so desperate!
I’m grateful that I was one of the lucky ones who grew up in this time era and remember life the way it truly was meant to be lived. Maybe today’s media should think about inserting these onto the TV as short public service announcements, it just may rattle the brains of people today and make people think. Just a thought.
I was looking for something traditional and Classic to watch on Thanksgiving. So many of the You Tube titles weren't what they said they were. And then I came across this! What a precious and fitting 12 minutes I just spent! I pulled it up on my iPhone and shared it with four others. :) You would think this was made for today (2023). I hope this message is viewed by many more people! I'll be sharing it on social media. Thank you and Happy Thanksgiving one and all!
Conservative Dems. and the G.O.P in 2024! A good start. Dont empower them any further. Nor there sick 100 plus genders and surgery on minors without conscent. Conservative Dems. and the G.O.P in 2024! By the way, in Leftist thought, Thanksgiving is a Racist holiday. Google it.
Im so thankful to my Lord and savior that He gave me a wonderful family. My parents always took us to church, had Sunday dinner together (most of the time we still do on Sundays). I had a father that always provided for us and a mother that was sweet and loving. I adored my grandparents and my aunts and cousin. Now that im married God blessed me with amazing husband just like my dad. He loves me and goes to church with me. Im truly am blessed. Yes its hard in America right now but im determined i will stand by my country my family and the true Americans. With God will can and will have our country back better than ever! Thank u Jesus for America!
Maybe your dad earned what he had. Maybe there’s no magic sky gif involved. Maybe you just a good person who earned your good fortune. Stop awarding your achievement to magic nonsense. Stop being a child.
You're wasting your time with a 1080 version of this, because it looks identical to a 480 version. A 1080 version of something is justified if it's crisp & sharp, but not if the 1080 version is blurry.
@Paulscottrock Magical nonsense?? Jesus is not magical nonsense. It's sad you feel that way. Jesus is real and He loves you. Whether you believe in Him or not. I hope you come to believe very soon.
My neighbor needed a cup of flour. We talked for 45 minutes. It was nice. Then, five minutes later, she came back and said it turned out she needed a cup and a half. We talked for another 45 minutes. That cake came right along!
*I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do all this through him who gives me strength.* Philippians 4:12-13
I spend Thanksgiving alone every year. I have no family, and the neighbors and friends know I am alone, but not a single invitation. This goes for all holidays. I seem to only be remembered when the kids are needing to sell something for school or their church. Sadly, this is just the way things have become. I try to bake a small chicken and make a few small traditional sides for myself and watch thanksgiving programs on tv. And I too am thankful for what I have, and the freedoms I have have a citizen of the USA. I just wish the younger generations cared more about their neighbors and others. My daddy was born in 1919, so I know I was brought up with a different set of values. Sometimes it is good though to look back through rose-colored glasses
@@Lisa-je5bb I have volunteered many places and for many years. But I am now disabled and live out in the country and it is very hard for me to do things for me that I was once able to do. I would absolutely love to be able to go back doing more volunteer work. The statement was not about me being alone and playing and old for me, it was about me showing how times have changed and people only care about themselves. Nobody cares about the old lady who has no one to help her with her yard, or wondering if she has anyone for the holidays. I have volunteered more in my life than those people, but I am now disabled and older.
@@TalibaSnyderSame here. None of the few relatives I have left care about anyone other than themselves. I used to volunteer at soup kitchens when I was younger and alone on holidays. Being disabled, I can no longer do so. But I refuse to throw a pity party. I pray for people and either have a small gathering with my God, my guardian angel, and a few saints, or just treat it as any other day if it’s a civic holiday. I can be thankful to God for any day He grants me life. I have my pet cat to purr and warm my feet. I can read a good book, listen to music, watch a favorite movie, work at my crafts, sit in the window or on the deck and enjoy nature. It’s time to enjoy life’s simpler pleasures and leave the big social affairs to others who don’t know how to be content.
That's okay, the leftist schitbags in charge are working hard to make America a banana republic. Hard to have class warfare with a strong middle class, you know.
Conservative Dems. and the G.O.P in 2024! A good start. Dont empower them any further. Nor there sick 100 plus genders and surgery on minors without conscent. Conservative Dems. and the G.O.P in 2024! By the way, in Leftist thought, Thanksgiving is a Racist holiday. Google it.
Traditional values stand for honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated, and helping those in need. “Open your arms to change but don't let go of your values. If we lose our human values by having everything mechanized, then machines will dictate our lives.” Dalai Lama
This is awesome, and brought me to tears. Watching this traditional family, a dad teaching his children about the real meaning of Thanksgiving, having gratitude for our country, our freedoms, our family, all the conveniences, etc. We have much more today, yet too many in our society today are soooo unthankful, self-centered, and ignorant as to why we celebrate.
I wasn't born in the 1950s with all the "conveniences" of modern technology have things really improved?! Technically has made life simpler but it seems things were simpler back then.. today most Americans complain about what they don't have..perhaps that's why so many people are unhappy..these people were grateful for what they *did* have. So many things that we today take for granted they were thankful for..what a great message. 🙏
Someone else said it in the previous comments, and I'm echoing it here... I'm thankful I was raised in a proper family home, with love for one another, respect for my parents and elders, the WANT to do good in school, the fact that dad worked hard to put food on our table every day and night. The fact that we always had a roof over our heads is always something to be forever grateful for, every single day. This video just drives all that home. Glad I found it in my recommends.
A lot of the busy-ness is self-made. When I grew up kids weren't involved in 15 freaking "activities" they had to be rushed around to all the time. We made our own play and entertainment.
I was seven years old then so this brought back a lot of memories…I’m sure most younger people seeing this would think this was a fake remembrance of how life was lived during that time…it wasn’t…I remember how daily life was families living together going to work and to school, how we could play outside until dinner time, where we gathered at the dinner table to eat instead of sitting on the couch watching tv and eating off a “tv” tray…(tv was a thing of the future) we always said a prayer before our meal which consisted of meat, potatoes, rice or noodles with a canned vegetable and bread with jam followed by a cake or ice cream, etc…we had milk from our cows, eggs from our chickens…wish I could go back to that life…(I even recognized the dinner plates and the old wringer washing machine!)
Such a beautiful video of yesteryears 😊 Just even 10% of that energy and spirit of those days would be very welcomed in these modern times..it was all about values back then 😊
I would have been 10 months old, my older sister would have been 4, Mom was staying near family while Pop was off in the Navy fighting in Korea. We grew up knowing how privileged we were in the United States and treasured our freedom. I mourn that loss.
Conservative Dems. and the G.O.P in 2024! A good start. Dont empower them any further. Nor there sick 100 plus genders and surgery on minors without conscent. Conservative Dems. and the G.O.P in 2024! By the way, in Leftist thought, Thanksgiving is a Racist holiday. Google it. Empowered by the vote, you may see the elimination of Mothers Day too. The word Mother isnt fair to other genders. Its offensive. Vote them back in, the Left and it gets worse.
Thanksgiving is a place in your heart that is filled with thankfulness to God. Whatever we have, much or little, we are aware that the God who cares for us and provides for us gives us the opportunity to share in our blessings with others. We ALL need God's love and care.
@@valeriebellomo3573 you are partly correct. It's the public school system that indoctrinates the students and teachers are very restricted and tracked if they deviate from this. I myself , a teacher, have been reprimanded from mentioning the name of God.
partly feel that way too ... and so I've been seeking info. and reaching out to Our elected representatives ( am also appreciating the "sense of Duty" that our Soldiers served their Country for ! 400,000 died honorably in World War l l and so I can Not stop Praying, Not stop learning about Our U.S. CONSTITUTION & Sending letters - Making phone calls - even Traveling to Washington, DC )
@@vickramgoswami2297the entire landscape of this country has changed. The values and culture are gone. If you believe in tradition, it makes you a racist or bigot. This country is dead.
@@vickramgoswami2297 You can thank the IMMIGRATION ACT OF 1965, CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1957/1964/HOUSING FOR COLORED, LIBTARDISM/COUNTERCULTURE, DEMOLITION OF HISTORICAL BUILDINGS 1950S TO 1960S, ETC...
This should be required watching for all children today. I’m thankful for the freedoms we have enjoyed for many years thanks to the brave men and women who have served in our armed forces and kept this country free. I know we are now in danger of losing these freedoms. Most of us, if not all would be very unhappy to live in a country that didn’t have these freedoms. Thank God for America.
To whomever is watching this…I hope wherever you are in the world, you find peace and love in your hearts and in your lives. Sending my peace to you. Please share your peace with others. 🙏🌎☮️❤️
Thankfully, I was raised in a Family like this. And it was in the 80's. My Kids, all 6 of them, are also being raised like this. Family centered, proper roles taken with joy, and gratitude.
Thank you for sharing this important message! 👍 May we remember to show gratitude to God our Creator and the many blessings God has given to us through rightous principles and blessings as mentioned here in this video! I appreciated it when Mr. Johnson mentioned his hope for these same blessings for All people of the World. ❤🕊🙏⛪📜🖋⚖🦅
My kids own are older now...but just thinking back this is what I remember. If you raise them with compassion,and "catch" them showing kindness to others- not making a fuss,but letting them know that being better to people is just the way it should be- you'll start to see them saying and doing things on their own around the holidays that positively fill your heart to bursting with Thanksgiving. Loving-kindness is natural to many kids. And if they're a little self-centered or too inward,they're usually old enough to have a spontaneous conversation with...maybe about one of the topics in this video,for example 😉
This was really eye opening. At the time of me typing this,Thanksgiving is on Thursday but it really made me think a lot. We have many things in our lives we should be thankful for. As long as we have a roof over our heads, ppl. who love us, and the things we NEED, not want we should be thankful. Times were simpler then, and the golden rule was important. Wish more of this existed today.
Parents allowed the doing away of old ways, so now we have stupid parents and even stupider kids that will continue to raise even more stupid, dense people.
It does! We just have to make a decision to live a simpler life. It’s not easy, but it’s do-able. We have to be diligent about not getting caught up in all of the distractions life throws at us today.
I first went to the US as a young 19 years old Frenchman in 1976 and discovered this tradition and wonderful time between thanksgiving and Xmas. This was a time where a young man would be welcomed in a middle,class family. It was simple in US terms, looked lavish to me and I cherished it. Where on earth is this US middle class nowadays ? Gone . I go to the US twice a month today......and I am bored. Something has really gone wrong. Nice movie
Marxist professors, the deconstruction of the family unit, devaluation of sex, loss of national identity, condemnation of traditions, revisionist history, the list goes on. Our democracy opened the door for Bolsheviks to slide on in, and that's exactly what we have today.
Republicans happened. They destroyed the middle class and ruined America... though the America you see in these old short films never actually existed. This is what they hoped to make via an aggressive attempt at controlling the narrative about American life.
@@AskALibbieist the republicans ruined America?? 😂😂 let’s compare how well the country was doing when trump was in office vs the country now that it’s Biden.... with trump the only issues were that the democrats wouldn’t stop bitching and moaning about Russian collusion... and they stopped him from being able to drain the swamp... other then that he ran this country like a business wanted us to do well financially and stayed strong through all of the shit you guys put him through, and even with all of the bullshit he still dealt with the bio weapon very well........ now that it is Biden.. gas and food prices have gone way up, the economy has gone to shit, the borders are just open to everyone (excuse me I’m sorry, the borders are open to everyone except the Cubans Kamala Harris made that very clear... I don’t understand why they can’t come over too if everyone else is allowed to come here illegally) we are loosing more and more rights by the day, we are not allowed to even decide what we want to do with our own bodies.... I thought it was my body my choice 😂 what happened to that? Biden has threatened to nuke the American people, threatened Russia twice, The government has given themselves tons of raises while we are left wondering if we are allowed to work, we are looking at a major depression and now a war... scratch that a world war as well as a civil war.... I could go on all day. we are all absolutely fucked if you guys think Biden is doing a good job... the only good thing about it is when you guys ruin the country you will have to live in it as well and we won’t be helping you and since you have killed off your children (abortions) you don’t have anyone that will give a fuck!
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@@Deemememe The afrikans caught other afrikans and THEY sold them into slavery. And they were transported on _jew_ owned slave ships. Learn the TRUTH about slaves.
Oh how I miss those days!!!!! I remember my mom cooking the turkey and making her special dressing; she made it with grits and day old bread with celery and spices!!!!! It was absolutely delicious!!!!!! She baked a Japanese Fruit cake with special special spices with coconut!!!!!! Family and dear friends; oh how I miss those days!!!!!!!❤
What I am thankful for is,the breath God Grant's me everyday that I am alive.🤗And his grace and mercy,I am grateful for christ crucifixion:spearing his life for mines.
We are seeing what living in a secular society brings. I'm so thankful I was raised in the America depicted in this video. I grieve for the young people who never got to experience it.
Conservative Dems. and the G.O.P in 2024! A good start. Dont empower them any further. Nor there sick 100 plus genders and surgery on minors without conscent. Conservative Dems. and the G.O.P in 2024! By the way, in Leftist thought, Thanksgiving is a Racist holiday. Google it.
This was quaint and cozy and enjoyable. At first I thought it was going to be really goofy and contrived but actually it warmed my heart so much! Thank you for posting! Thanksgiving 2021
It totally different now you see this Biden destroy America values cuz he’s not an American not, his family and congress letting Biden keep on making mistakes after mistakes against our Country We have fallen so far that it will take yrs to try to fix Our United States or should I say Border Town made by Biden It’s been approved
I am 90s kid. But I know back in the early 1950s people were still recovering from WW2 aftermath. And the Korean War was going on as well. Not until the mid 1960s that's when the economic stabilized globally. This is a good video be grateful everyday. Not to wait for some holiday every year.
this is EXACTLY how I feel when I hear people call THANKSGIVING - TURKEY DAY! I just hat that. It's cutting our Lord out of another part of our life - thanksgiving is being thankful to HIM for things - sure don't thank a bird for blessings.
This is such a good reminder! We might not have all the things we want but so thankful we have all the things we need. I’m sharing this with my kids. ❤️
This is the middle of the McCarthy Era in the United States, so the patriotism is poured on fairly thick, but in the main it is a nice video which illustrates a kinder, gentler and more innocent time I remember well, growing up in the Midwest with a dad who worked hard and a mom who was always there for me and my brother at home.
Hint: No money? No family? Alone on Thanksgiving? Volunteer yourself at a soup kitchen. You see others worse off, get to serve your neighbors, and you’ll probably get some turkey.
I grew up in this time. I remember my family having happy Thanksgiving together. We had a lot of relatives getting together. Aunts, uncles, cousins at our house. Everyone brought food. Everyone was happy and enjoyed each other. The only ones that didn't get along was some of the kids. The adults were always smiling and happy, not like today. I miss those days.
This video shows how much this country has fallen and devolved and how many freedoms have been taken away. Very scary where we are today and will only get worse.
Film shows a somewhat poor family, but even so, they dressed decent, and whatever humble pie they were eating, was upon a real table cloth, real plates, and they were using real napkins.
I am mostly thankful for the Lord Jesus Christ, who, because of His great and selfless love for sinners like me, gave His life so that I -- and others who believe and follow Him -- could have not only the forgiveness of wrongs but hope of Heaven with Him! For this, I am thankful that I don't have to fear death but fully knowing that when I pass on, death will be just a doorway to that Paradise who awaits to those who trust and obey Christ!
Always thankful but remember the days when we were pay check to paycheck but, never let the kids know we were short. Could always pawn something to pull off Thanksgiving dinner or Christmas. Still this clip shows what really is important.
That was my thought too... "You seriously couldn't have done SOMETHING to be able to afford a turkey?" Turkey at Thanksgiving these days is dirt cheap... of course turkey sucks, people just get it because it IS cheap and it feeds a lot of people. I'm doing duck this Thanksgiving... a little more expensive but so much better.
The baby in the video is about 72 years old as I watch this in July 2022. This family could never have imagined what life would be like in 2022. They probably would have imagined life would be like the Jetsons, except this video pre-dates the Jetsons!
That is me 72. All we can say for sure is life was simpler. Grew up in a PA suburbs and back then going out to eat was a 2 or 3 times a year treat. We had to help around the house but we had lots of play time outside. Never a dull moment.
This video came at the perfect time. How beautiful the message of what Americans used to be thankful for. The two women could talk about anything that they wanted. Happy Thanksgiving. 🦃🍁
A wonderful Video of how important to be thankful for all that we have.The Third WORLD Countries of the World have most of their population happy to have food to eat and clean water to drink, let us be thankful.
This has been a tradition in my family for some time now. We all take turns to list the things we are thankful for on Thanksgiving. God has been good to us. I wish I was a stay at home mother. I work and take care of my family. Its hard but God gives me the strength. I think we as Americans can take a step back and realize its not material things that make us happy but its God and the people in our lives. Doing something good for someone else it what gives the heart joy.
Whenever someone talks about how great it was “back then”, my mom tells the story of the old black man that got shot dead for laughing at the sheriff’s deputy who fell out of his squad car in front of the gas station in the small Alabama town she lived in. Nothing happened to that deputy.
It really is upsetting. The way it is today compared to then . I try to be happy and smile and make good memories for my grandchildren. Not very many of us left. I said to myself the older ones had to smile and act happy. I am thankful for what I have. But it certainly does not feel the same way it did. What's going on in our world today it's a disgrace.
I've been through some BAD financial times, times hen I couldn't get home. I had to learn how to "Make do" with what I could scrounge. I learned to be GRATEFUL for having found $18.00 for that week's groceries. I learned to buy small amounts of "special" things. A little bit of beef, a little bit f chicken, a small brownie for tea every couple of weeks. I REALLY appreciated having that treat once every couple of weeks. And if I COULD be with family, I REALLY treasured being able to visit with them. I spent years on welfare. It's horrific. Soul crushing. Spirit ending. But somehow, I got through it. It taught me how to be grateful for cheap cans of soup.
A prayer of thankfulness to the state and what man has accomplished through the permissiveness of the state. Must have brought tears to Khrushchev’s eyes to have seen this video. Not a single mention of God. Not much different from today after all.
I say these words almost every day, while watching the news, and trying to get away from some of the advertisement with all kinds of implications, breaking all The 10 commandments, I find myself saying out loudly God have mercy on us, God help us. Joining the young people online for Bible study has been spiritually uplifting. Happy Thanksgiving.
My dad was a bus driver in the 1950s and with 6 kids and all the relatives over we had turkey and all the fixings every thanksgiving, at Christmas and mom made ham dinner on Easter. so i would think a car mechanic made a lot more!
Conservative Dems. and the G.O.P in 2024! A good start. Dont empower them any further. Nor there sick 100 plus genders and surgery on minors without conscent. Conservative Dems. and the G.O.P in 2024! By the way, in Leftist thought, Thanksgiving is a Racist holiday. Google it. Empowered by the vote, you may see the elimination of Mothers Day too. The word Mother isnt fair to other genders. Its offensive. Vote them back in, the Left and it gets worse.
Great video, hope everyone had a great thanksgiving dinner 2023 with their love ones unfortunately we lost a family member and dinner without them was sad