| A Half Million Teenagers | ||
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| Catalog #: | 491161 | |
| Clip Number: | 491161-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | WPA 1724 | |
| Timecode: | ||
| Location: | Various | |
| Year Shot: | 1969 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | Yes | |
| Headings: | HEALTH AND MEDICINE: Instruction & Advice | |
| Description: | ON PREVIEW CASSETTE 212374 Essentially a PSA regarding the ever-dreaded venereal disease in its many sickening forms. And since awareness in the form of scare tactics is the key to containment, particularly among youth, what better forum than the educational film? There are many peculiarities to this film, from illustrations to medical photos to actual phlebotomy. Scare 'em straight. LS's of a packed outdoor football stadium on game day. Zooming (in) MS of a door being opened; FI on the darkened doorjamb. MS of a scientist peering into a microscope; ECU of a spirochete, a microscopic organism that causes syphilis. ECU of gonococcus, the microscopic organism that causes gonnorhea. MS of an overflowing garbage can in an alley, much spoiled food around it. MS of a muddy creek. CU of a rusted tin cup being filled with water at a kitchen sink, an old man later taking a sip. CU's of soapy hands under running water, then towel-dried. Illustration of teenagers, one of whom (a girl) has her crotch scribbled out; the teens cross paths, causing the male teen's crotch to get scratched out (odd) .......... Sideview illustration of male sexual organs, followed by depiction and description of how VD occurs, its symptoms and ultimate effects. Sideview and frontal illustrations of female sexual organs and how VD occurs and creates complications. Illustration of a baby in a womb; depiction of VD affecting the child.......... Medical photo of swollen, painful joints. Tight LS of a high school campus as students walk about between classes; one boy (walking anonymously away from camera) has superimposed "germs" about him. Medical photo of a chancre sore on a man's knuckle. Medical photo of a woman with a chancre on her mouth. Medical photo of a man with a huge rash covering his back. Medical photo of a palm rash. Medical photos of sores on ears, faces, and in mouths.......... Panning MS of a doctor and a young male patient talking in an office. Nice MS of a female teen standing at her bedroom window at night (she's in silouette). MS of a shirtless male teen waiting and watching his doctor drawing medicine from an ampule; CU of syringe. CU of a chancre sore by a man's nipple, a latex gloved hand touching it.......... MS of a young woman in a doctor's office; CU of her gripping a hankie. CU of blood being drawn from a young man's arm. ECU of a phone book, the PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT's listing being pointed to. MS's inside a VD clinic. CU of a medicine being poured from a bottle and into a spoon. CU of a mailbox being opened. MS of a doctor syringing an ampule. | |
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