# Anybody else remember:Old health class film. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 16, 2013, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-remember-old-health-class-film/653103 "2013-03-16T18:14:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2013, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-remember-old-health-class-film/653103/21 "2013-03-20T21:01:37Z")
> [@psychobunny](#): > > I remember this one-but I think it was a CPR film. I think somebody else got electrocuted in it. > Could it be The Pulse of Life from 1962? Unfortunately, I can’t find a description or a video but the name sounds very familiar. (I would have seen in in the late 1970s). I found this, and I think this sounds way to technical and advanced compared to what I remember. > **[History of cardiopulmonary resuscitation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_cardiopulmonary_resuscitation)** > > The history of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) can be traced as far back as the literary works of ancient Egypt (c. 2686 – c. 2181 BC). However, it was not until the 18th century that credible reports of cardiopulmonary resuscitation began to appear in the medical literature. > Mouth-to-mouth ventilation has been used for centuries as an element of CPR, but it fell out of favor in the late 19th century with the widespread adoption of manual resuscitative techniques such as the Marshall Hall ... > [@](#): > > To promote CPR, Jude, Knickerbocker, and Safar began a world speaking tour. In 1962 Gordon, along with David Adams, produced a 27-minute training film called “The Pulse of Life.” The film was used in CPR classes and viewed by millions of students. For the film, Gordon and Adams devised the easy to remember mnemonic of A, B & C standing for the sequence of steps in CPR, airway, breathing, circulation, which is still used today. And I can’t remember if it was a film or a filmstrip. But I think most of the things we watched were film strips. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2013, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-remember-old-health-class-film/653103/22 "2013-03-20T21:04:42Z")
We learned “Duck and Cover” in the mid-70’s. But then we were only six miles from the “Ground Zero Bar” (Hot dog stand in the Pentagon Courtyard.) Our health class actually encouraged the use of cold showers as a way of hardening the body against the weather. Hot showers were described as causing “lethargy”. Lethargy ws an enormous bugaboo and almost every topic was somehow brought back to the importance of preventing it. Too much sleep? Lethargy! Not enough sleep? Lethargy! Poor nutrition? Lethargy! All of which is true, but it didn’t take long for us to be crying with laughter every time the word came up again in a new context. You also reminded me of a Health Class Film Strip which defined tampons as " . . . a hygenic device sometimes used by ladies AFTER marriage." With “after” in huge capital letters. This would have been around 1982ish. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![gazpacho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6f9a4e/32.png) [@gazpacho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gazpacho)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2013, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-remember-old-health-class-film/653103/23 "2013-03-20T21:57:01Z")
> [@67java89](#): > > Holy shit! If I were a child in the 50’s I would have been in a constant state of fear and permanent insomnia. BTW, did they really think duck and over would really protect you against an atomic bomb? If you are very close to the explosion there is nothing you can do. But There is a very large area outside of the nothing can be done area where the primary issue is flying debris. Duck and cover is very good advice for much of the area that is damaged by nuclear weapons. ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-remember-old-health-class-film/653103/24 "2013-03-21T05:43:35Z")
Okay, no thread about goofy, outdated sex-ed films would be complete without mentioning 1961’s [_Boys Beware!_](http://archive.org/details/boys_beware), a hilariously homophobic and dated, but almost Joe Friday-esquely serious short. _“Be careful, one never knows when the homosexual is about…”_ 😃 ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-remember-old-health-class-film/653103/25 "2013-03-22T17:21:45Z")
Wasn’t that film one of the “This is Bob’s Heart” films? I remember seeing it as well. He didn’t have a heart attack, but it talked about all the stress he put on his heart. And yeah, I still have a very difficult time even changing from the hot tub to the swimming pool thirty years later. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-remember-old-health-class-film/653103/26 "2013-03-22T19:38:05Z")
> [@OtisCampbellWasRight](#): > > In grammer school we were shown an anti-pot-smoking film starring no less than Sonny Bono! He must have been caught with something and making the film was part of a plea agreement. It was pretty funny. You could tell he had a gun to his head during the making of it. and it made us all want to “experiment.”🆒 That scared the living shit out of me when I first saw it. Especially the part where the guy looked in the mirror and saw himself as old. About 10 years ago I got curious about it and found a site that sold it on VHS. All of those things we saw in school are available. But I don’t think that bono was “caught with something.” He was always very strongly anti-drug. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-remember-old-health-class-film/653103/27 "2013-03-22T19:54:27Z")
> [@steronz](#): > > Your toilet is hooked to the hot water feed? Oh great, it didn’t smell enough before so let’s heat it up. All I can remember viewing were the duck and cover films. It always bothered me that they were either getting under impossibly flimsy desks or about to become a silhouette against a brick wall. I think I saw the lurking homesexual video here. _Watch out Jimmy! Oooh, close one._ ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-remember-old-health-class-film/653103/28 "2013-03-22T20:48:22Z")
There is a [book](http://amzn.com/0922233217) called _Mental Hygiene: Better Living Through Classroom Films 1945 - 1970_ if you’re interested in this stuff. I would say it’s funny except I had to sit through some of this… stuff in grade school whenever a teacher wanted to kill some time in a class period. ---
**Author:** ![Laggard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de053/32.png) [@Laggard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laggard)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-remember-old-health-class-film/653103/29 "2013-03-22T20:59:15Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > I have an entirely different question. Where can you take a shower where someone flushes a toilet and the water gets **cold?** Ours does that too and we have good water pressure. And stupid question maybe but are film strips used anymore in classrooms? I grew up in the seventies and worried about the bomb. I was a nervous kid though so I don’t know if my peers worried about the same thing. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-remember-old-health-class-film/653103/30 "2013-03-22T21:06:49Z")
We never did answer the original question about whether hot water followed by sudden cold water (and vice versa) in the shower will give someone a heart attack. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-remember-old-health-class-film/653103/31 "2013-03-22T21:15:43Z")
> [@phouka](#): > > Wasn’t that film one of the “This is Bob’s Heart” films? It well could be, I don’t have any memory of the name of it. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-remember-old-health-class-film/653103/32 "2013-03-22T21:17:42Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > There is a [book](http://amzn.com/0922233217) called _Mental Hygiene: Better Living Through Classroom Films 1945 - 1970_ if you’re interested in this stuff. I would say it’s funny except I had to sit through some of this… stuff in grade school whenever a teacher wanted to kill some time in a class period. I couldn’t find an author email. Anybody have 20 bucks of Amazon credit and a burning desire to satiate curiosity? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-remember-old-health-class-film/653103/33 "2013-03-22T23:43:33Z")
> [@wolfman](#): > > I couldn’t find an author email. Anybody have 20 bucks of Amazon credit and a burning desire to satiate curiosity? 🙂 I own the book but won’t be home until late tonight. I’ll check for an author contact as soon as I can/ I remember. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2013, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-remember-old-health-class-film/653103/34 "2013-03-23T00:59:16Z")
> [@wolfman](#): > > I couldn’t find an author email. Anybody have 20 bucks of Amazon credit and a burning desire to satiate curiosity? 🙂 (There are used copies going for 50c, if you notice…) ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2013, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-remember-old-health-class-film/653103/35 "2013-03-23T03:05:25Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > I have an entirely different question. Where can you take a shower where someone flushes a toilet and the water gets **cold?** Mine gets seriously hot - the cold water gets diverted and the shower ends up with all hot water. Normally it isn’t that big a deal because we have 1 bathroom, so whoever pees doesn’t flush but it sucks if someone decides to turn on the dishwasher or laundry … we keep the antique boiler up at maximum temperature so it can get exceedingly hot very quickly. [I think it is at 150 F. We have no small kids so it is not as hazardous as it sounds. mrAru and I are in the habit of boat showers so the only time the water is running is when we are soaking down or rinsing off.] ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2013, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-remember-old-health-class-film/653103/36 "2013-03-24T04:08:42Z")
No contact info listed. The book is nearly 15 years old now though. He might have a blog or something by now.No ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2013, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-remember-old-health-class-film/653103/37 "2013-03-24T09:07:20Z")
There are a lot of old training films at the [Prelinger internet Archive](http://archive.org/details/prelinger). I first saw that anti gay one there a couple years back. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-remember-old-health-class-film/653103.md?page=1)