Word: oregon
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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...
Margin for Error. Oregon's high venereal disease rate in the '30s had worried Dr. E. C. Brown, a VD specialist who thought that more knowledge would mean less disease. Before his death in 1939, Brown gave $500,000 to the University of Oregon for sex education. Six years later, the state legislature made the subject compulsory in junior and senior high schools. Oregon first tried 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...
...Oregon had wanted to use professional child actors, but Eddie Albert was convinced that amateurs would do better. He sold the idea to the principal of Emerson Junior High in West Los Angeles, picked students there to act the part of questioning schoolkids. Two Emerson youngsters -George Enoch, 13, and Josie Kegley, 12 -were "starred." Albert hired three professional actors to play the teacher, father and mother...
...final scene, the children raise frank questions about the animated film, which the teacher answers. The movie ends on an intentionally abrupt note, to suggest that there are other questions left unasked and unanswered. Professor Beck has prepared a classroom manual to get the Oregon teachers past the toughest questions...
Previewed by Oregon parents and teachers before release to the classrooms...