Remember Those Educational Films In School?

If you were in a classroom somewhere between the 1950s and the 1970s, you may remember your teacher showing various films on subjects such as science, social studies and the language arts. You may also recall seeing films on other topics such as responsibility, anatomy, manners,traffic safety, personal safety and drug use.

 Produced by corporations such as Encyclopædia Britannica, Centron Corporation, Mcgraw hill and Coronet Films, social guidance films are a genre of short films that attempted to help teach children, teens and even adults how to behave in more socially acceptable ways. Despite it's attempts to be helpful and the overall good messages of some, social guidance films as a whole are often perceived as dated and somewhat comical. Being in the public domain now, they are viewed for entertainment purposes and several were even lampooned in the television comedy series Mystery Science Theater 3000.

A Date With Your Family (1950)

 
                                                   Duck And Cover (1951)