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So was everyone who made an educational short between 1940 and the late 80s

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Smith Dr John Smith:
insane?

I mean I just watched a new batch of shorts and there was one about counting and for some reason Turkeys were running around the whole time,add to that stuff like magic sneakers,and the fact that all of the shorts are in some way completely nuts and I have to wonder if all these companies and schools just kept raiding local mad houses to get the writers and directors for these things.

Was everyone insane back then? did anyone here see these at school and if so did they seem insane when they were made?

I swear movies like the room can't hold a candle to you average educational film when it comes to being insane.

RoninFox:
I think they were all thinking that the point of showing a film to a classroom was to break the monotony of a teacher lecturing to the class or something, so they better be strange to catch the kids' attention.

Smith Dr John Smith:

--- Quote from: RoninFox on May 02, 2012, 12:37:06 AM ---I think they were all thinking that the point of showing a film to a classroom was to break the monotony of a teacher lecturing to the class or something, so they better be strange to catch the kids' attention.

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And make sure the kids didn't learn anything.  It's amazing how many of these shorts never address the subject the title says they are about.

MerryWanna:
There was a lot of acid around in the sixties and seventies. 

Edu-shorts are generally made by art students. Art students did lots of acid.

Ergo, or should I say "ergot"...you have what you've seen.

They figured out high falutin' ways to explain the trippiness of their work to the straights who hired them to make the films, such as 'it will get the child to pay attention" and "it will stimulate their creative imagination."

Looking at films made for the same purpose in contemporary times saddens me.  And probably bores the crap out of the kids, though this was probably also true of the crazy stuff from times bygone.  When the lights go out, it's either booger-picking time, or note-passing time, or daydreaming time for a fifth grader.

Tripe H. Redux:

--- Quote from: MerryWanna on May 02, 2012, 04:29:39 PM ---Ergo, or should I say "ergot"...you have what you've seen.

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Bravo.

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