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October 22, 2003
scare tactics
I love MilkandCookies.com, where else would I find this link: Periods 101. I watched it all the way through, mouth agape; not believing this film was once shown to children. Who thought this up? Where do they find people to act in such a monstrosity? It got me reminiscing over the old “educational” films my public school education inflicted upon us impressionable students. In Junior High "Health" class (sex education in disguise), we were shown a film called: Am I Normal? It was made in the early 70's and the characters were decked out in the grooviest polyester shirts with really wide collars and bell-bottom pants. The story concerned a pubescent boy trying to figure out sex. He wanders around asking people, "What is sex?" and "Am I normal?" He asks his coach, fellow schoolmates and finally a zookeeper who actually says: "Well, son, you picked the right guy to ask, because on this job, I see a lot of penises. Animal penises, that is."
Mechanized Death was shown in Driver's Ed. It was shot in the 1950's and consisted of a policeman going from car crash site to car crash site, showing the carnage and advising the camera that had the person worn their safety belt, they might have survived. The gory finale was the policeman pulling a dead baby from a mangled Oldsmobile. It was horrific.
The worst film of all was a warning against touching power lines and walking on railroad tracks. I was in elementary school when this film was shown and let me tell you to this day I cannot come close to train tracks without panicking. The film showed a little girl walking along railroad tracks, picking daisies...POW! Hit by a commuter train! If that wasn't devastating enough, they showed it a couple more times with different kids. Then a little boy climbed a ladder to touch the big black chord and, of course, ZZZAP! I remember wondering if perhaps the little boy might turn into Electroman from the shock but instead he just laid there on the grownd, twitching. The ending has all the dead kids sitting in a train cabin, whining and crying. A man in a trench coat appears and the kids say, "Stop this train, we wanna go home to our parents." The man intones, "You can never go home because you were careless and walked on railroad tracks, you will never see your parents again!" The man then faced the camera and said, "Now maybe you will think twice before you touch power lines and walk along train tracks or else you will join these children on a train ride for eternity!" If I remember correctly, once the lights came back on, the teacher had to clean up a couple of kids who messed their pants they were so scared.
Comments
Yep, I can remember it. I'm not as of those things anymore. But I do disctictly remember a guy BUSHING a 440KeV or 440,000 volt line. It blew him right now of his shoes 20 ft away and his body was smoking. He turned out ok, after about a month of rest, but he certainly was very paranoid about work after that. Anyways have fun and no thinking about Red Asphalt! LOL! Have a good one.
-Jason
Good lord! That train film sounds horrid! How could they show that to kids?!
Posted by: Sarah at October 23, 2003 11:06 AM
