Well, THAT was educational

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Well, THAT was educational
Topic Started: Sep 18 2009, 06:02 AM (182 Views)
Laughing Gravy	Sep 18 2009, 06:02 AM Post #1
Revered in the UK Posts: 11,059 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: August 31, 2005	One of the highlights of the FNF experience... those goofy-ass behavioral short subjects they showed kids in the '40s-'70s to make them tow the line and be good little monkeys. Didn't work in my case, obviously. Here is a list of some of the fine short subjects we've seen over the past 10 years. I'll bet even after all these years, some of these titles ring a bell. Alcohol is Dynamite! Appreciating Your Family Are Manners Important? Beginning to Date Boys Beware The Cautious Twins Cheating Cindy Goes to a Party Control Your Emotions A Date with Your Family Dating Do’s and Don’ts Dinner Party Don’t Get Angry Drivers of Tomorrow Duck and Cover Everyday Courtesy Exchanging Greetings and Introductions Friendship Begins at Home The Fun of Making Friends Getting Along with Parents Girls Beware Going Steady? Good Table Manners The Grapevine Health and Grooming Helping Johnny Remember Highball Highway Hired! Holiday from Rules How Quiet Helps at School How to Say No Keeping Clean and Neat Kitty Cleans Up The Last Prom Lunchroom Manners Maintaining Classroom Discipline Manners in School Posture Pals Red Light Green Light Say No to Strangers School Rules: How They Help Us The Self-Image Film The Sex Life of the Polyp Social Courtesy Skipper Learns a Lesson Taking Care of Things The Trouble with Women Turn the Other Cheek We Play and Share Together What About Juvenile Delinquents? What About School Spirit? What to Do on a Date When We Grow Up Why Doesn’t Cathy Eat Breakfast? Your Junior High Days And yeah, the "Polyp" one is a joke, sort of.



Frank Hale	Sep 18 2009, 01:50 PM Post #2
Balcony Gang, Foist Class Posts: 828 Group: Members Member #59 Joined: October 6, 2005	KINO has a couple of discs of this stuff coming out 10/6. The titles mean nothing to me, I’m afraid. I can’t really remember being forced to watch this sort of thing other than in driver's ed. But I do absolutely remember actual duck and cover drills.



Laughing Gravy	Sep 18 2009, 03:05 PM Post #3
Revered in the UK Posts: 11,059 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: August 31, 2005	I'm looking forward to the Kino discs, which don't seem to have any of the dozens (hundreds?) of educational shorts already n the Gravy collection. How can you not look forward to a 1950 short called "Let's Make a Sandwich!" that shows little girls how to prepare sandwiches properly - 'cause little boys can't. We used to show "Duck and Cover" shorts on FNF when the kids were younger, and I would tell them, "Okay, at some point during tonight's feature attraction, I'm going to flash the lights on and off. When that happens, pretend that's a nuclear explosion and let's see how well you all duck and cover." We would do exactly that, and the running gag was that, while everybody else hit the carpet, ducking and covering properly, Strawberry Gravy and I would scream like girls (well, she IS a girl) and throw up our arms and yell, "We're all gonna DIE!" and simply run around the living room hysterically, in circles, wailing. See why our movies are so much friggin' fun?



Chandu	Sep 19 2009, 09:23 AM Post #4
Knowledge Seeker and rascal at large Posts: 10,240 Group: Members Member #297 Joined: October 19, 2007	I probably saw 3 - 5 of those things while I was in elementary school. It might be fun to revisit a couple of them again, but there's so many other things I want to see worse.
	Not plane, nor bird, nor even frog. It's just little ol' me...


CliffClaven	Sep 19 2009, 10:14 AM Post #5
Balcony Gang, Foist Class Posts: 228 Group: Members Member #712 Joined: March 30, 2009	The Sex Life of a Polyp is a ringer -- that's Robert Benchley doing a comic lecture. Surprised you haven't worked in Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land. Everybody seems to remember that one, but when you see it now you realize it doesn't really teach anything except Math is Good and how to plan pool shots.



Laughing Gravy	Sep 19 2009, 03:25 PM Post #6
Revered in the UK Posts: 11,059 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: August 31, 2005	Yes on Polyp - which, so far as I can recall, got the biggest laughs of any comedy short we've ever shown. Donald's Math short has been on my radar for a while - we just haven't gotten to it yet.



rodney	Sep 23 2009, 04:29 PM Post #7
Charter Member Posts: 1,302 Group: Members Member #3 Joined: September 2, 2005	I have a few DVDs of these, but not nearly the amount that you have. Where do you get them all? We're doing a movie night in a few weeks, and I've already had a special request for one.
	Raise a toast to St. Joe Strummer!


Laughing Gravy	Sep 23 2009, 05:27 PM Post #8
Revered in the UK Posts: 11,059 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: August 31, 2005	This is but a small number of the ones in my collection. I have maybe 3 dozen DVDs full of 'em. Try the "Educational Archives" series from Fantoma and the DVDs from Quality Information Publishers.



CliffClaven	Sep 24 2009, 10:43 AM Post #9
Balcony Gang, Foist Class Posts: 228 Group: Members Member #712 Joined: March 30, 2009	Note sure if they qualify, but one of the Warner crime sets had a bonus disc with six "Crime Doesn't Pay" shorts along with "Film Noir, Bringing Darkness to Light". Each short is an earnest expose of some form of crime, like gangs forcing slot machines on legitimate small businesses, and if memory serves they're surprisingly low key -- dark and often with unhappy endings, but far from the hysteria of exploitation or scare films. You can get the single disc used & cheap on Amazon.



shelbyvinje	Oct 9 2009, 06:23 PM Post #10
Balcony Gang, Foist Class Posts: 415 Group: Members Member #470 Joined: June 3, 2008	I have tons if you need some, Rodney. My problem is all the places that offered those shorts wanted $20 for an hour-long DVD and that's too expensive for what little I would get. Two hours of material would be more like it.



shelbyvinje	Oct 9 2009, 06:29 PM Post #11
Balcony Gang, Foist Class Posts: 415 Group: Members Member #470 Joined: June 3, 2008	I just ordered the DVDs from KINO, only to discover that some of those shorts came out on Alpha DVDs. I prefer KINO prints over Alpha since the quality is always superb, but since Alpha has come out with titles KINO also offers, this might be KINO's way of doing the same? Especially since some of the shorts are also the same? Speaking out loud??



rodney	Oct 13 2009, 11:20 AM Post #12
Charter Member Posts: 1,302 Group: Members Member #3 Joined: September 2, 2005	Gravy, Where did you find that short that you showed a few weeks ago, "Dining Together" or something like that, about the creepy family eating Thanksgiving together. I want to show that one bad as we get closer to Thanksgiving.
	Raise a toast to St. Joe Strummer!


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