Social guidance films constitute a genre of films attempting to guide children and adults to behave in certain ways. Typically shown in school classrooms in the USA from the 1950s through the 1970s, the films covered topics including courtesy, responsibility, sexuality, drug use, and driver safety; the genre also includes films for adults, covering topics such as marriage and how to balance budgets. Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as the field in general. ... Students in Rome, Italy. ... Etiquette is the code that governs the expectations of social behavior, the conventional norm. ... Almanac · Categories · Glossaries · Lists · Overviews · Portals · Questions · Site news · Index Art | Culture | Geography | Health | History | Mathematics | People | Philosophy | Science | Society | Technology Wikipedia is an encyclopedia written by its users in over 200 languages worldwide. ... This article is about the issues and phenomena pertaining to human sexual function and behavior. ... Recreational drug use is the use of psychoactive drugs for recreational rather than medical or spiritual purposes, although the distinction is not always clear. ... Ohio Drivers Manual, 1950 Drivers Ed or Drivers Education is a class or program offered by independent agencies and most high schools in the United States, where students learn how to drive and practice road safety. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Social guidance films were generally produced by corporations such as Coronet Films, Centron Corporation, and even Encyclopædia Britannica, but the films were also produced by maverick independent filmmakers such as Sid Davis, dubbed by author Ken Smith as the "King of Calamity" for his often calamitous narratives. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The Encyclopædia Britannica is a general encyclopedia published by Encyclopædia Britannica Inc. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Notorious social guidance films include Duck and Cover (instructing children to duck under their desks in case of nuclear war, and including the famous cartoon with the turtle and the stick of dynamite to illustrate the point), Reefer Madness (which shows the effects of cannabis consumption) and Boys Beware, including the line "What Jimmy didn't know was that Ralph was sick--a sickness that was not visible like smallpox, but no less dangerous and contagious--a sickness of the mind. You see, Ralph was a homosexual, a person who demands an intimate relationship with members of their own sex." The title screen from the film. ... Nuclear War is a card game designed by Douglas Malewicki, and originally published in 1966. ... Reefer Madness, originally titled Tell Your Children, is a 1936 drama film directed by Louis Gasnier. ... Look up Cannabis in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Boys Beware is a social guidance film released through Sid Davis Productions. ... Smallpox (also known by the Latin names Variola or Variola vera) was a highly contagious viral disease unique to humans. ... Since its coinage, the word homosexuality has acquired multiple meanings. ...

See also

• Social problem film

A social problem film is a narrative film that integrates a larger social conflict into the individual conflict between its characters. ...

Additional resources

• Mental Hygiene: Classroom Films 1945 - 1970, Ken Smith, (c) 1999, published by Blast Books, ISBN 0-922233-21-7
• Our Secret Century, a collection of 12 CD-ROMs compiled by film archivist Rick Prelinger
• The Prelinger Archives at the Internet Archive
• AV Geeks at the Internet Archive

Mental Hygiene: Classroom Films 1945 - 1970 is a book by former Comedy Channel writer Ken Smith, about a large genre of social guidance films on topics ranging from driver safety to dating to sexual relations and drug use. ... The CD-ROM (an abbreviation for Compact Disc Read-Only Memory (ROM)) is a non-volatile optical data storage medium using the same physical format as audio compact discs, readable by a computer with a CD-ROM drive. ... Rick Prelinger (b. ...

External links

• Duck and Cover