Does anyone remember movies shown in junior high back in the 70’s. The movie I’m having trouble remembering starts out with a man in a white hazmat suit walking through a deserted city. He then enters a museum and seems upset about the displays of animals. He finally enters a room to watch a film about pollution (I think) and the extinction of everything. At the time I remember feeling scared about the future of the earth (believing this will happen). We were so easily influenced back then.
We watched a lot of those grainy b&w films and the only two I remember was one on how to write an outline (in cursive longhand) and somebody in a lab coat demonstrating that if you bake a watermelon for a long time, not much is left. There may have been more to that one.
And the duck and cover one. But that was in grade school.
Not it, but any chance to link to Hemo the Magnificent will make a Doper go Ahhhhh!
Oh, man … Hemo! And ‘Our Mister Sun’, and the one about Cosmic Rays. It was like a Christmas present when they showed them in school, even with our crummy film projector.
I remember noticing an excerpt of that one in “Gremlins”
I saw that one in 6th grade. Still remember it to this day.
That, the “beware of child molesters” one and the “anti-drug” one where the guy goes to a party, takes a few hits off a joint, and the next thing you know, he’s shooting up heroin! :eek:
Drawing a blank on another classic … the circulatory system or some such with the teacher and the animated animals.
Bonus though. In searching for it I found an old Dope thread about something else I’d been craving to rewatch. Telezonia!
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After the mention of Hemo The Magnificent I went looking for an old thread I started asking for ID of a biology class film (the answer was, of course, Hemo the Magnificent). Identify this Biology Class movie classic - Cafe Society - Straight Dope Message Board
I found that we have discussed Hemo the Magnificent quite a lot on these boards.
“Come back, zinc!”
One of the cooler films our Grade 9 Science/Health teacher showed us was Disney’s VD Attack Plan!
But there was another film he showed us that I’m having a harder time finding info on. The only thing I remember is that it had a live dog that had its chest cut open and its beating heart was suspended outside of its body, hooked to the rest of the circulatory system with tubes. It was incredibly creepy.
don’t worry Jimmy it’s just a dream.
The OP sounds oddly like the premise of Serenity (the Firefly movie).
Sorry to necro a thread but this is relevant. I’ve been mentioning it in my intro to aerospace design class, that a particular German rocket science team, and their leader, built the USA’s Saturn V that sent us to the moon.
And this guy Werner, despite having been involved in a terror campaign against the UK during WWII, with V2 vengeance terror weapons killing many people (especially the slave laborers who built them), was featured in… a Disney special about manned spaceflight.
Yep, just the kind of thing we’d watch in School in the 1970s, in the afterglow of Apollo.
I even had a movie player thingy (hand cranked, non-electric) with an animated spaceflight sequence, including a space shuttle like landing in an urban area at the end, from Disney of this 1950’s era. When I was about 6 or 7.
I can’t remember ever seeing any films in junior high, or any time in school for that matter. That would have been back in the early to mid '60’s. Not even the ones where if you did this or that your penis would fall off or look like an old banana. Movies would have interrupted our sleeping time.
My 9th grade English teacher let us watch her pirated copy of “Grapes of Wrath”
I felt guilty for weeks.
Yes, yes. I read the book too.
Could you elaborate, Beck? What about this made you feel guilty? Maybe she should have felt so?
I believe those warnings about the FBI coming after you if you did these pirating activities or showed the film other than to you on your machine, without permission.
(I always rewound my tapes too.)
I just felt I would be an accessory to her crime.
I’m kinda paranoid.
It’s ok. I’m working on it.
Ark, a 1970 apocalyptic short film directed by Rolf Forsberg?
For a second I thought you were referring to “Ark II” from the early 1970s.
I had been haunted by weird memories of a land ship crossing an apocalyptic world…with a chimp crewmember…and a lot of hokey special effects. Then I finally came across a mention of this show, fairly recently. It was real!