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Mental Hygiene: Better Living Through Classroom Films 1945-1970
by
Ken Smith
After scouring obscure educational films for nine years, the author offers a fascinating stroll down memory lane via the hundreds of films designed to keep public school children on the straight and narrow track between 1945 and 1970. 200 photos.
Paperback, 240 pages
Published
November 19th 1999
by Blast Books
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As a mystie, I've seen my fair share of well-meaning and hilarious educational films and enjoyed this opportunity to learn more about them. The first half of this book fairly seriously discusses the various forms of mental hygiene films in historical and cultural context: films about the dangers of teen drivers, for example, in a time in which cars were extremely unsafe; warnings about venereal disease that statistics show clearly went unheeded; films that ruthlessly urged conformity as th...more
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I'm a bit disappointed. I was hoping for a review of a few of the more well-recognized films of the time period with accompanying discussion of the rationale behind filming and whether or not the film was successful in delivering its message. But this is more a catalog of short descriptions about several films. I did appreciate the brief overviews of the different mental hygiene genres at the beginning, but I wish that style of writing had taken up more of the book.
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Mental Hygiene: Better Living Through Classroom Films 1945-1970 by Ken Smith (1999)
Wow. I am a big fan of all those old classroom films from the 40's to the 70's, films such as Duack and Cover, Shy GUY, and Feep off the Grass. They all appear very dopey and ridicolous compared to what youth are like today. These films make you think of Beaver and Wally Cleaver. Many of them cater to the notion that the 1950's were just hunky dory. Many of the films discussed in this book are avaible online.
I'm old enough to remember the thrill of actually!seeing!a!movie!in!class! and they were always these cheesy ephemeral films from companies like Coronet. You can read about them in this great book or even download some of the best through Rick Prelinger's archive, now at the Library of Congress. Visit [link: http://www.archive.org/details/opensourc... and relive your 60s childhood.
An excellent history of the film shorts shown in schools from 1945-1970. The book is funny, because it can't help but be given the goofy, corny, silly subject matter, but it's also interesting, informative, and respectful of something that was taken very seriously in its time. Well done.
Not a completely silly mockery of campy nostalgia, like a lot of James Lileks' stuff. This one involves a lot of actual research, description, and analysis. You might actually learn something!
A guide through some of the "educational" films used to shape character, teach manners and scare kids away from sex, drugs and bad manners. I was surprised at how many of them I remembered...
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