Word: human
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Human Growth calls a Fallopian tube a Fallopian tube. Through this film and question-&-answer periods stimulated by it, Oregon hoped to take sex education out from behind the barn and into the class room...
...pamphlets, lectures and then lantern slides, but found too much margin for error and embarrassment on the part of teachers. In 1946 Professor Lester F. Beck, a University of Oregon psychologist, worked out a movie script. Its thesis: "The love life of the worm is an evasion of the human problem. Human sex should be taught honestly and scientifically." He tried his script on other scientists and educators, then submitted it to nine Hollywood producers. A documentary firm run by Actor Eddie (Brother Rat) Albert...
...Disney gags. It explains the processes of sex and pregnancy with simplified diagrams and a minimum of anatomical detail (at first the tails of spermatozoa were shown wiggling in their movements to reach and fertilize the ovum, but technical advisers feared that schoolkids might associate the wiggling with human swimming, break into nervous laughter...
...Human Growth won enthusiastic approval. Of 1,131 persons polled, 91.2% wanted their children to see the film. A frequent student reaction: "Can we see it again?" Most surprising parental reaction: "Why wait until the seventh grade...
Department underlings had proposed Harry Martin of Memphis, anti-Communist president of the C.I.O. American Newspaper Guild, as a delegate. But he had been turned down by higher-ups as a radical. His sin: in 1938 he had given a small sum to the Southern Conference for Human Welfare. Martin told the New York Herald Tribune that his name "had been taken to the top three times but that the answer was 'no' each time...