Your Body During Adolescence (1955)
1955 · Ephemeral film · 10 min
- Documentary
- Short
Synopsis
Boys and girls become men and women when "the change" arrives. It happens to us all. But what really happens to YOUR BODY DURING ADOLESCENCE? McGraw-Hill, better-known as a book publisher, crafted this frank film that explains it all in full, animated detail.
Synopsis from OMDb
Details
- Running time
- 10 minutes
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · Our bodies, our selves · Wilford B. Wolf · 2005-03-23
While a lot of the sex education films of the 1950s try to sidestep the issue or attach guilt to parts of the process, this film is surprisingly frank and open. Using slightly abstracted animation, a friendly narrator describes in detail the changes boys and girls go through as they grow up, using all of the medical terminology. The narrator emphasizes that differences in order or speed of development are normal and details how those changes come about. What is refreshing is the changes that both men and women go through are covered in equal weight. While the actual process of sex is not…
★★★ · SEX GLANDS! Hehehehehehehehe! · Spuzz · 2005-10-25
OK kiddies, here we have a very straightforward film about Pewberty! Pewberty is a very interesting subject! Theres lost of changed that go on in the body, and in the film, the simplified drawings help us through this phase, by giving us simple, and highly artistic lol renditions of what goes on. Sometimes its with a circle, and sometimes with an artistic rendering! (Yes! The sex parts get the artistic treatment!). Again, all straightforward, it doesnt REALLY explain how male sperm cells get into the Lay-bee-a to make the bay-bee.., I guess thats for another class