ABSTRACT
Many aspects of life for young people at the beginning of the twentieth century were about to change dramatically. Schooling was still a somewhat haphazard element in children's lives. Attendance was often sporadic and determined by many factors. Changes in the experience of youth and the adult perception of youth culture coincided with the growth of the social sciences and the interest of their researchers in formulating theories about childhood and youth. For a society that had not quite emerged from the Victorian era, it must have been disquieting as they tried to make sense of this enormously popular new form of storytelling, which displayed love, sex, and crime on a larger-than-life screen. In roughly the same years that American children were enjoying afternoon and weekend movies, radio was becoming a fixture in their homes. Concerns about radio remained in the mid-twentieth century.
