# Movies you watched in school **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 15, 2013, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watched-in-school/671325 "2013-10-15T16:42:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2013, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watched-in-school/671325/41 "2013-10-15T20:13:08Z")
The one that sticks in the memory is Roman Polanski’s _Macbeth_ when we were about 12. It was an uncut version, and the teacher did warn the class that it was quite a grown-up film. It was a huge, huge success. (snap, **tellyworth**! 🙂 ) ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2013, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watched-in-school/671325/42 "2013-10-15T20:24:06Z")
We very rarely watched movues in class. There were a handful of times that we went on a field trip to Manhattan to see a moie at Radio City Music Hall- we saw \*\*\*Sound of Music, Dr. Zhivago, Mame \*\*\*and _ **Godspell** _ that way. Among the few movies I recall watching at school… _ **To Sir With Love** _, _ **The Diary of Anne Frank** _ and Abbott & Cpstello’s _ **The Widow of Wagon Gap.** _ ---
**Author:** ![Rollo\_Tomasi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/58956e/32.png) [@Rollo\_Tomasi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rollo_Tomasi)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2013, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watched-in-school/671325/43 "2013-10-15T20:25:37Z")
In elementary school, we all went to the gym/auditorium/cafeteria to watch **Pollyanna** , for no apparent reason. And considering that all the students had to sit on the floor, it was especially dickish of them to choose a two-hour-and-fifteen-minute movie. At least **The Red Balloon** would have been shorter! ---
**Author:** ![foj3000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ba8739/32.png) [@foj3000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foj3000)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2013, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watched-in-school/671325/44 "2013-10-15T20:38:02Z")
16mm versions of 7th Voyage of Sinbad Original The Thing Forbidden Planet Some Disney Educational shorts ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2013, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watched-in-school/671325/45 "2013-10-15T21:09:18Z")
> [@Dendarii\_Dame](#): > > I think this is Paddle-to-the-Sea by Holling Clancy Holling. It is indeed. [Here](http://www.nfb.ca/film/paddle_to_the_sea) it is. ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2013, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watched-in-school/671325/46 "2013-10-15T21:11:58Z")
_Song of the South_. There were several others but this one stands out to me more at the moment. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2013, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watched-in-school/671325/47 "2013-10-15T22:24:15Z")
I remember from elementary school in the 70s… [Pollution](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCojBngA--s) And one I can’t find on youtube called Patch the Pony about avoiding strangers. ---
**Author:** ![eburacum45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eburacum45/32/8690_2.png) [@eburacum45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eburacum45)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2013, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watched-in-school/671325/48 "2013-10-15T22:55:55Z")
Our movie society played ‘Plan 9 From Outer Space’ and ‘Bucket of Blood’ for some reason, movies that were chosen by the pupils themselves. Probably couldn’t get away with that sort of thing nowadays. ---
**Author:** ![Tara57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@Tara57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tara57)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2013, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watched-in-school/671325/49 "2013-10-15T23:29:26Z")
Legend of Sleepy Hollow – the Disney cartoon – shown during elementary school music class plus my Sunday school Halloween party every year – scared the bejenkies out of me. Danse Macabre – film strip also shown by my elementary school music teacher every Halloween – also scared the bejenkies out of me Born Free Free to be You and Me Red Balloon Donald Duck in Mathemagic Land lots of Disney educational shorts Little Big Man Excalibur ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2013, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watched-in-school/671325/50 "2013-10-15T23:34:58Z")
Jr. High and High School, the ones that I can remember are. Flowers for Algernon Finian’s Rainbow The Music Man 7 Brides for 7 Brothers (there were more musicals, I just don’t remember them) Elementary The Raven (the 1963 version) Zulu (don’t know what they were thinking with the Zulu one). ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2013, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watched-in-school/671325/51 "2013-10-15T23:44:39Z")
I hardly remember any “entertainment” films at all, even on dismal winter days. The strongest memory I have of an educational film is[Phoebe](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0223924/), a National Film Board of Canada classic about a teenage girl who fears she’s pregnant. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2013, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watched-in-school/671325/52 "2013-10-15T23:48:12Z")
The boys and girls saw separate films in Health but we all watched how to drive a tractor on a hill. (You go around and around.) ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2013, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watched-in-school/671325/53 "2013-10-16T00:06:14Z")
_The Living Desert_ and _The Restless Sea_ are the first two that come to mind. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2013, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watched-in-school/671325/54 "2013-10-16T00:23:26Z")
I remember in 10th grade, near the end of the semester, the English teacher showed us Batman (Burton/Keaton version) to keep us busy while she graded papers. ---
**Author:** ![Carl\_Corey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Carl\_Corey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carl_Corey)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2013, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watched-in-school/671325/55 "2013-10-16T01:17:50Z")
Free to Be You and Me Red Balloon Romeo & Juliet And a filmstrip, The Cheetah. ---
**Author:** ![Anamorphic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anamorphic/32/3057_2.png) [@Anamorphic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anamorphic)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2013, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watched-in-school/671325/56 "2013-10-16T02:30:03Z")
My piece of “The Red Balloon” trivia, since the film has been mentioned here several times… the director of the film, Albert Lamorisse, also invented the board game Risk. ---
**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2013, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watched-in-school/671325/57 "2013-10-16T02:42:14Z")
> [@Morbo](#): > > It is indeed. [Here](http://www.nfb.ca/film/paddle_to_the_sea) it is. Paddle To The Sea - wow, blast from my past! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2013, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watched-in-school/671325/58 "2013-10-16T03:15:40Z")
_The Red Balloon The Good Earth_ Once, they sent the boys out and showed us girls Walt Disney’s _The Story of Menstruation_. We must have been ten or eleven years old at the time. It was just vague enough that I didn’t “get” it and went home and asked my mom what the heck it was all about. ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2013, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watched-in-school/671325/59 "2013-10-16T03:20:00Z")
Here’s one I think I remember from 10th grade biology. [Tragedy of the Commons](http://www.phoenixlearninggroup.com/Products/VideoDetail.aspx?id=e48484f3-c541-4765-8fd1-4e6ed77f1a88&cat=1&sub=79f11866-817f-4d76-8ab5-9ead76910a05). Though I don’t remember the discussion of birth control pills in the sample clip, the description sounds like right. Doesn’t look like the full version of this one is up on youtube or [archive.org](http://archive.org). ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2013, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watched-in-school/671325/60 "2013-10-16T12:28:32Z")
> [@teela\_brown](#): > > Once, they sent the boys out and showed us girls Walt Disney’s _The Story of Menstruation_. I always get that one confused with _Fantasia._ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watched-in-school/671325.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watched-in-school/671325.md?page=4)