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  • I'm David Hoffman, filmmaker, and you're about to see a clip from Passivity in High school.

  • Ah, home movie.

  • Have I get it?

  • Well, back in 1990 I was doing a documentary series for PBS called Making Sense of the Sixties, and I placed ads around the country asking people, Do you have any home movies?

  • And people sent me hundreds of movies.

  • I love some of them, and I love this one.

  • It's just a beautiful time.

  • 1958 Money is flowing in the middle class.

  • Pasadena's gorgeous people feel great.

  • Everybody's happy.

  • That's how it looks on this video.

  • I've added music to give a little feeling to it because the old eight millimeter is silent.

  • Remember that these are not baby boomers.

  • These are people from the silent generation.

  • My generation 18 year old people in 1958 the baby boomers were growing up at that time.

  • They were like, well, starting in 1946 so that would be 12 years old.

  • You'll see a few, but not many.

  • So sit back and watch this beautiful thing, and then tell me at the end by your comments, Could we ever have a time like this again in America, where it just seemed like everything was getting better and better and better.

  • Sure, we had some scary things going on at the same time, and some of my clips show those things.

  • But this one, I don't know.

  • It's just some kind of fantasy, but it's kind of like reality to it is a documentary.

  • Enjoy it.

  • No, right, Yeah, no.

I'm David Hoffman, filmmaker, and you're about to see a clip from Passivity in High school.

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