Modern Kids

Duration: 400 ft.

Year Published: 1944

Complete Record: This film has beautiful color: baby beauty bathing suit contest. cute 3-5 year old girls model bathing suits and turn around like fashion models. chubby boy baby in one piece bathing trunks, boy in bathing suits walks DOG and eats hamburger, food all over his face, more girls modeling swim suits, girl winning trophy, teenage boys in race car derby, great shot of man waving checkered flag as drivers cross finish line, lots of peel and skids, drivers wearing cool helmets and goggles, boy receives trophy from little boy racer, great shots of boys diving into pool, boy doing various swimming strokes, more diving shots, actor Charles Ray giving kids diving instructions, boy in middle of huge pile of balloons blowing up a balloon, he’s at the famous gay lion farm(???) lion cubs in a row, multitude of lion cubs playing with and popping balloons, boy bottle feeding lion cub, teenaged boys build a pretty big model airplane, fueling it, man with flag, starting propeller, man waves flag, boy helps model plane take off by running behind it, it lifts off, shot of model plane flying, faux gas gauge on empty, plane crashes, cu of little boy wearing pilots cap smiling, making sad face when the plane crashes. great shot of little boy hand winding a projector with the words “the end” burned across screen.