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Oddball Films and curator Kat Shuchter present Learn Your Lesson... About Your Feelings: An Emotional Shockucation, the fifteenth in a series of programs highlighting the most ridiculous, insane and camptastic educational films, mental hygiene primers and TV specials of the collection. This month we're dealing with our emotions; those mighty forces of rage, pain, fear and love! A white-coater explains the basic emotions and uses the tale of angry young Jeff to explain how anger can ruin everybody's day in the mental-hygiene classic Control Your Emotions (1950). Can young Kristy McNichol change her feelings of anger to love when her new step-mother takes over her class and she's determined to take the new teacher down in the abridged ABC Afterschool Special Me and Dad's New Wife (1976). We've got a double-dose of musicalamities when Larry Klingman and the Feelings gang get little kids to sing about their icky emotion s with the fearful I'm Feeling Scared (1974) and the rage-filled I'm Mad at Me (1974). Former NFL-star turned needle-point enthusiast, Rosey Grier tells you that It's Alright to Cry from that quintessential hippy-parenting guide Free to Be You and Me (1974). Kindergarteners hand-draw the story of John and his search for an escape from his pain through drugs and alcohol in A Story About Feelings (1981). And we'll examine whether those enthralling pangs of early love will lead to a happy marriage or devastation in Is This Love? (1957). Plus emotional excerpts from Help Me!: The Story of a Teenage Suicide (1970s), The Fears of Children (1951) and an interpretive dance about the metaphysical walls we construct from Walls and Walls (1973).