Believe it or not — but the very idea of "health class" was a promising prospect. In one place, students from elementary to high school could learn all they needed to know about safety, germs...and the evils of pornography.
And so filmmakers went crazy making short, low-budget films to teach about the horrors of everything from infidelity to bacteria. Of course, at OUTzone, we've snatched the queerest titles to share with you. In these mini-classics of "documentary" filmmaking, boys are hunted by pedophiles, gals are made-up to look like glamorous vixens, and nudie literature is exposed as "filth."
If only all filth was this funny.
(And we threw in a weird film about hairdos for good measure.)
In this homage to all things horrible about homosexuals, the boys are all victims. And gay men are all predators just waiting to pluck a young chicken off the sidewalk.
Directed by Sid Davis, B&W, 10 minutes. 1961
Hubby is home late and Wifey decides he must be having an affair. She freaks out and throws his dinner in the garbage — very American Beauty. Luckily, Wifey realizes it's all her fault, of course.
Produced by Affiliated Film Producers, B&W, 15 minutes. 1954
In San Francisco, not even a lady's hair is safe.
In this tantalizingly snippet of style, one Bay Area hairdresser shows off five new "designs" on gals who are game.
Produced by Universal-International Newsreel, B&W, 1 minute. Circa 1950.
If the makers of this anti-porn screed knew how unsucessfull their crusade would be, they probably would have killed themselves.
Produced by Charles Keating, Color, 14 minutes. 1964-65
But we know who won. Thank god for the internet!
Produced by Charles Keating, Color, 15 minutes. 1964-65