Human Reproduction (1947)

★★★★★ · The Film I Never Got to See... · Thereminista · 2015-10-07

This is an early sixties film that thoroughly covers how babies are made. Overall, the information is given in a very straight, and factual way without a lot of goofy analogies or quasi-embarassed tactics to circumvent the details. The lead-in is a vignette of a little boy who presses his parents for more information about why Mommies bring babies into the world. The scripting is thin, but it serves it's purpose well enough. When I was in grade school, neither my school nor my parents wanted anything to do with informing me about sex, or the anatomy of a man. Those were to be avoided at all…

★★★★★ · A Bit Involved · JayKay49 · 2021-02-16

For a six year old, "the bee stings the bird and the bird lays an egg" is usually sufficient. BTW, among Italians - Sicilians in particular, the hymen is PROOF of virginity and in those days it was not unusual for an Italian - American girl to make an appointment with the doctor to "confirm" that it's intact. It was a big deal in our Italian community. So don't believe everything you hear. A very well done film appropriate for high school age kids. I also think my parents could have been enlightened by this film. "You wanna do WHAT?" was not a remark taken lightly by my dad. 2 weeks after…

★★★★ · By the grace of heaven... · mjwise · 2006-01-27

...this film really isn't too bad. But can anyone here place those accents? I'm stumped. The father's increasingly perturbed/panicked look at his kid's questions is great, though. Good sardonic narrator too. The explanations are very straightforward and do not seem dated. I think the lack of pubic hair in the woman is kind of odd though. The male erection is also completely cropped out. Also notable is that the male explanation/model portrays a male with foreskin, which was a somewhat unusual inclusion compared to even other films of its age as circumcision was already quite popular in the US…

★★★★ · i think i am going to telephone the hospital right now. · AliceTeeple · 2004-03-18

Strangely-accented people narrate the facts of life in quite possibly the most unappealing description of conception ever filmed. Features disturbing silhouetted images of newborns hanging upside-down. And Dad perpetually looks perplexed about all of it. How DID Junior show up? What's with all those Latin names? Huh? Huh?

★★★★ · So THAT'S how they do it... · fanfare · 2004-09-08

I could've used a bit less realism in the animation, thank you (the slow, contracting passage of the baby through the uterus was almost painful to watch), but Dad's trauma at his son's probing questions kinda made up for it. A very enlightening film.

★★★ · Dad? Dad?? · Spuzz · 2003-08-13

A peculiar movie made apparently for adults who have absolutely no idea where babies come from LOL. The movie starts by a young tyke asking his father where babies come from. The Dad soon starts, um, I don't know, going into a trance I guess, and then narrator starts talking about the female reproduction system. Soon, junior apparently snaps Dad out of it to ask another question, which just gets Dad deeper in the fog again, thinking about the Male reproduction system (insert your own joke here). Although quite an informative and educational film, the formatting of it is rather bizarre.