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

History?
The article says that these films went from the 40s to the 70s but doesn't explain why they came to an end. Shouldn't that be covered as part of their history?--Daniel (talk) 05:58, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

Atomic Holocaust; The "Duck and Cover" parody in "Iron Giant"
"The 1999 feature film The Iron Giant, set in 1957, features a social guidance film-within-a-film titled Atomic Holocaust, the style and tone of which emulate 1952's Duck and Cover.[citation needed]" I remember that. It was a lot like the real Duck and Cover only much sillier. Now as for a citation, what would it take to satisfy the Wiki-Bureaucrats into accepting the fact that it was real? -User:DanTD (talk) 12:57, 21 May 2024 (UTC)