"Teenage" (2014)

• "We're teenagers ... a wartime invention. What would we become? Who would decide it - them or us?"
• "Adolescence is the new birth"
• "We were young and we were allowed to be".
• Transition between childhood and adulthood difficult before. 
• Gangs on streets - carried knife and robbed - "youth were becoming a problem and it had to be solved". 
• Robert Baden-Powell - Boy Scout Movement
• Patriotism, courage and self-alliance
• "turned rat face slum kids to kit and healthy soldiers".
• After war men shellshocked - "old have sent us to die and we hated them". 
• "Reckless sense of release and I felt wildness inside"
• "I don't trust my parents anymore I just want to be with my friends. The world is speedy and they are old". 
• FLAPPERS
• Jazz, Charleston (Americanised). "Those who get the youth get the future". Youth Groups.
• "to be young was the style and it was for sale". 
• Valentino's death caused riots.
• Police tried to shut down nightlife - youth created their own. 
• Brenda Dean Paul 1926 - London's first drug addict. 
• Movement created - gossip columnists.
• Adults were in a panic 
• Youth unemployed - lay down strike
• Nothing to do, nothing to spend - "living corpse". 
• Adolf Hitler - opinion leader - young people susceptible to it because they feel at a loss.
• Hitler youth - millions joined. 
• "I can only describe this happiness to be allowed to join a group that spread across the nation".
• "A young German was the most exciting thing you could be". 
• Rosevelt - Civilian Concentration Core
• England - Peace Army Camp - Labour Camps that "gave us something worthwhile to do"
• Swing - Jitterbugs - USA
• Slowly you lost yourself - "into the mass ... if you didn't like to there was no escape"
• "Everything I was or had been was absorbed into the hole". 
• "We wanted to tell all these dumb bastards that we were different that was all" - Tommie Scheel.
• Victory Girls
• Teen Canteens - "aren't we all part of the community".
• Social control, moral code and law.
• Edelweiss Pirates - rebelled against Hitler's youth. 
• "The old had sent us to die and there was no turning back"
• Different products aimed at youth: "we are the bosses of the business now". 
• Sub-Debs
• Teen-Age Bill of Rights, 1948
• a contract between the generations
• right to have "say" in own life
• right to have rules explained not imposed
• right to have friends
• right to question
• right to be at romantic age
• right to have fair chance and opportunity
• right to struggle towards philosophy of own life
• "to a teenager it is important to find out where we fit in in life around us"
• "The model for youth that still exists today".
• "A lot of people try to shape the future ... but it's the young ones who will live in it and will fight for it".