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Learn your Lesson...from the 1950s: An Old-Fashioned Shockucation
Oddball Films and curator Kat Shuchter present Learn your Lesson...from the 1950s - An Old-Fashioned Shockucation, the sixteenth 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 taking the way-way back machine to the 1950s to learn lessons in drinking and driving, bullying, cheating, sex, prejudice, child molestation, anger management and of course atomic fallout! Watch mice get drunk and drunks flip cars in the teen drunk driving cautionary tale None for the Road (1957). The school scofflaw, Chick Allen, can't wait to sully the school carnival in The Bully (1951). Chart the sexual development of two young people before their eventual marriage in The Social Sex Attitudes in Adolescence (1953), including segments on nocturnal emissions and homosexuality. In What About Prejudice? (1959) everybody in class has it out for the faceless minority student for a variety of terrible reasons, until he steps up and saves a classmate's life and ends up in the hospital; let's hope it's not too late to change their attitudes. Shockmeister Sid Davis want little boys to be on the look-out for the ever-present threat of pedophiles; you too should steer clear of The Dangerous Stranger (1950). Nothing's more delightful than little children screaming at each other and throwing things, but we've got tips on controlling their volatile little tempers in Don't Get Angry (1953). John Taylor thinks he's got it all figured out; copying answers off his friend's paper, but when word gets around, he loses all his friends and his seat on student council, all over a little Cheating (1952). And since it is the 1950s, learn how to react when our red enemies drop the big one on your town in the howlingly funny Pattern for Survival (1950), whatever you do, don't look at the light! Plus, shocking excerpts from shop-safety film It Didn't Have to Happen (1951), dolls on fire in Fire! Patty Learns What to Do (1951), and for the delusional: Facing Reality (1959). Get here early for Ulcer at Work (1957) because we're already 60 years late to learn these lessons.