As did us scruffians. Stoned out of our minds and tripping out on psychedelic Roman Polanski hallucination sequences.
School wasn’t all that bad. Sometimes.
Also a sex ed film with pimply dude in turtleneck sweater worried about “getting it”.
Sophomore year in Health class we saw a series of films about “When Disaster Strikes”. The general theme was you were in a shelter with some injured folks and each episode concentrated on a different injury/condition. The last one and the peak was childbirth. The mother in this one may have been an actress but the infant the class WATCHED passing through her birth canal was not. For this one the teacher left some waste baskets out for folks who lost their lunch and informed us that if anyone felt they had to leave the room before the film was over the door was over there.
I remember that one, and also The Death of Richie, and another one about a teenage alcoholic starring Linda Blair (I think) and William Shatner as her dad (maybe).
Yeah, I remember that one, vaguely.
Does anyone remember The Great American Bread Machine?
I remembered another short I saw in high school: “Overture”. http://onf-nfb.gc.ca/en/our-collection/?idfilm=10620
Toute la Bande! Means “All the Gang”, IIRC. I took French all four years in high school, and saw those films the first three years in a row. Fourth year, it was just me and two other girls, in the same room as a first-year class. We were told that we could join the class in watching TLB, if it didn’t interfere with our set work. “Assuming,” Mme. H said, “you’re up for another year of Caroline romping about in her little miniskirts, and Elizabeth in her see-through blouses.”
We saw one similar, but it was called The Last Prom. You could tell when it was shown because everyone drove real careful for about a week afterward.
Sign me up! 
That’s Sarah T. - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic, with Larry Hagman as the dad.
Blair had another, more notorious, TVM earlier called Born Innocent where she’s sexually assaulted in juvie.
Yep, saw that in jr. high too.
I wonder if that’s what was being parodied on the SNL Les Jeunes de Paris skits?
Yes! That was the film series. Thank you–merci beaucoup! And yes, the girls in that film series … well, we’ll just leave it there, shall we?
Seriously, thanks for reminding me of the series’ title. They were fun films, and we looked forward to them every week.
The first sex ed videos we were shown were during a lecture on “puberty” given by a public health nurse. This was already in Grade 5, but if I recall correctly, she came again in Grade 6, that is, in middle school, and showed my class the same videos. They were:
Am I Normal? (1979) - puberty from a boy’s perspective
Dear Diary (1981) - puberty from a girl’s perspective
This was in the early 90s and the nurse specifically told us before showing us the first video that, as it was an older video, the fashions the characters were wearing would be different. The films were somewhat informative, a good effort, but a bit corny. I remember us giggling/laughing quite a bit.
Except for science classes, I actually don’t remember seeing too many of these films made specifically for schools / for performing mental hygiene on teenagers, while in high school. A lot of films we watched were authentic ones. For example, in Grade 10, my geography teacher showed us various of films. Hands down the most fascinating was a two-part documentary from the National Film Board of Canada, “Netsilik Eskimo”. The first part showed the authentic traditional life of a group of Canadian Inuit (filmed in the early 70s before the term “Eskimo” lost currency in Canada) during their last migration before they were settled into permanent housing by the government. It was amazing. The second part showed the life of these Inuit following their being settled, which was more “civilized” and from my perspective a little sad. The same teacher showed us some commercial films, such as “Never Cry Wolf”, a 1983 adaptation of Canadian environmentalist and novelist’s 1963 autobiographical work of the same name. Once, he even showed us the 1985 Disney adventure film “The Journey of Natty Gann”.
As I said, in science classes, there were more made-for-school videos, lots of them. However, for example, one physics teacher showed us an entertaining circa 1988 documentary about Sir Isaac Newton that I remembered having seen on TV many years before.
The sex ed films I remember were all made in the '50s.
There was one in which the guy works up the nerve to call a girl on the phone to ask her for a date. After she accepts, he hangs up and heaves a sigh of relief (“Thank God that’s over!”), and then leans back to reveal his sweaty armpits.
In one I watched with my teenaged daughter, the girl has her first period. (“I can’t go swimming with you tomorrow. I have the curse.”) Later on in the living room, Mom informs Dad that their little girl has had her first menstruation. Dad smiles and replies “You don’t say!” before settling into his easy chair to read the paper and look creepy.
We both had a good laugh over that one! 
Saw, for some reason, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, and remember the juvenal laughs when one of the characters said she wanted to get something off her chest.
I remember watching that one on Youtube. While I agree it’s dated, my memory of it is that I was actually struck by how compassionate and progressive it seemed to be on the whole. First of all, it frames a girl’s puberty as a gateway to womanhood (for example, when the girl’s older sister catches her experimenting with putting on the latter’s makeup, she’s like, “You should ask Mom to get you some of your own stuff. You are old enough”.) Secondly, everyone seemed to be kind and understanding towards the girl as regarding the onset of her period and other budding adolescence-related changes, the school, her sister, her mother, as I recall even the father didn’t seem completely detatched, but of course, it would be more awkward discussing such things with him. The final scene showed the girl’s older sister being taken on a date, indicating to the younger girl what good things awaited her in the not-so-far future.
That movie certainly seems better made than the 1961 10-minute PSA “Girls Beware” linked above by Joey_P in post #113. In it we have three stories that warn young girls about the danger of keeping the company of strange and older boys, that were apparently made to seem progressively less awful. In the first one, the girl is apparently gang raped and killed. No explicit mention of the rape. In the second one, the girl is clearly raped, but survives. Again, the act itself is not mentioned. But the third story seems to be the most obfuscating of all. The girl in the third story, Mary, starts seeing unemployed high school graduate Robert, who sought out younger teenagers at the malt shop “because he wasn’t accepted by those of his own age group” behind her parents’ back. There are then very oblique references to their relationship becoming more sexual (and Bob becomes more and more “demanding”), until finally, “…Mary found she was in trouble and had to tell her parents.” The result is described in the following terms. “But now it was too late for advice and Mary had to be taken out of school and placed under the guidance of juvenile authorities.” (Visual of Mary sitting despondently at a desk, flanked by what are probably her parents and faced by an older man, presumably either her school principal or one of the “juvenile authorities.”) So not only are we not allowed to say the R-word, we are also not allowed to say the P-word either and identify the actual problem at hand. I wonder what kind of discussions were carried on in class after this was shown back in the early 1960s.
Then, there was this other mental hygiene film for teenagers that I found on Youtube, but from 1969 or 1970, i.e., not from the 50s, but from the time when social mores were being called into question and were starting to be liberalized. In this one, the main character is a typical late 60s teenage girl arguing with parents because they insist on her keeping her room clean (which room, by the way, she shares with her little sister and which is shown to be very stark, somewhat reminiscent of a dormitory or a minimium-security prison). The parents have a rule for her that she can only go on group dates (and she’s like, 16, not 12 or 13). However, she once meets a boy she likes and ends up spending time in his car. Someone sees her and tells her folks. The result: the Archie Bunker-like father has a strict talking-to to her, forbidding her to see said boy. When she says: “You can’t be serious!” He replies righteously: “I’ve never been more serious in my life!” As I recall, his entire justification for laying down the law like that was: “What will people say?” The girl then complains to her girlfriend, who opines: “Everything would be OK if you just continued to date in groups.”
Compared to some other old films aimed at socializing and indoctrinating teenagers, the one about the early adolescent girl experiencing her first period seems quite forward-thinking.
Did you notice the creepy dad was also the coach of a boy’s athletic team in the accompanying male-oriented film? (I’m assuming the two movies were made back-to-back.)
I would have begged to be excused from PhyEd. 
You mean this one.
You’re right. The coach in the boys’ version plays the dad in the version for girls.
Hadn’t noticed the first time around. Watching these again, I can see why the actor may have seemed creepy to some when in either role.
We watched an old 1967 anti-drug film called Narcotics: Pit of Despair, which includes gems like
This is the real action: the pot party, the trippers, the grasshoppers, the hiplings…
and
Forget it, man, and get with the countdown! Shake this square world, and blast off for Kicksville!
I had to watch it in 7th, 8th, and 9th grades. We thought it was hysterically funny. The teachers couldn’t understand why.