Talk:Social guidance film

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KQ, would the military films that were shown to soldiers and sailors fall into this category? I own the video Federal Follies, and it contains such classics of military film as Blondes Prefer Gentlemen and How to Succeed with Brunettes, as well as Duck and Cover and The Decision is Yours, about whether a sailor should have sex (straight OR gay) or not. -- Zoe

Good call, Zoe. I've given it a more constricted definition than it should have because of my own focus. There are social guidance films for adults, too, covering how to make compromises in marriage and how to balance budgets, etc.

About whether the military films are part of social guidance films, that would make sense, but I'm not sure what the relatively few experts have to say about it. Study of the films is very much a new thing (Prelinger started his collection in 1982; before that the films were almost universally mocked); Prelinger and Smith are currently the two best known people affiliated with it.

The military is of course part of society also, and now that you mention it, there are also the police training films. Sid Davis made a few, sometimes unsolicited, straining relations with local police. (I've only seen one of them--Shotgun or Sidearm?). I'll look through Smith's book and Prelinger's CD-ROMs and see what they have to say about it. Koyaanis Qatsi

What? No mention of Reefer Madness -- it's got an article, and I never even touched it!!! Tuf-Kat

And then there's the driver's training shockers, like Blood on the Highway. -- Zoe