Movies they made you watch in school

Buxtehude · Apr 5, 2011

Any memorable movies?
 
We had to watch that darn red ballon movie. Here's a snap from it:
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I guess it contained a lesson. Looking back, I worry for the kid's feet, pounding away on those streets in such unsupportive shoes.
 
I can still hear the old film reel whirring away. We had reels, back then.

gretriever · Apr 5, 2011

Aside from something class-oriented, I just remember one I saw in third grade. It was something to do with manners and being polite to people.
 
There was a scene with a kid walking down a school hall waving and saying hello to every other kid in the school, and he did it in such a way that we thought he had issues. before the narrator could explain what was going, the film got stuck in the projector (it was a reel projector, too), caught fire and burned up, which you saw on the screen.
 
I don't ever remember third graders giving a standing ovation to a movie ending before... <img alt="biggrin.gif" id="user_yui_3_3_0_8_130201576574932" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/biggrin.gif" style="width:16px;height:16px;">

Tech Tee · Apr 5, 2011

I remember The Red Baloon (I think that's the name) when I was like in 1st grade. We also saw The Lottery (albeit NOT in elementary school, thankfully)

Hanging Jury · Apr 5, 2011

DS watched "THE MOVIE" with the rest of the fifth graders last week. You know, the one where they teach about wet dreams and periods and underarm odor and puberty and what-not? Yeah, DS was waayyyyy more mature about it than I was when he described it to me....
 
When I was a kid, boys got an extra recess and girls watched THE MOVIE.
 
I never got to see it....

kerfwango · Apr 5, 2011

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<div class="quote-block">Originally Posted by Tech Tee <a href="/forum/thread/73336/movies-they-made-you-watch-in-school#post_1992608"><img alt="View Post" class="inlineimg" src="/img/forum/go_quote.gif" style="border-bottom:0px solid;border-left:0px solid;border-top:0px solid;border-right:0px solid;"></a> We also saw The Lottery (albeit NOT in elementary school, thankfully)
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 Same here. What the hell?

yar · Apr 5, 2011

HEMO the GREAT" - a Disney film about blood.
 
yar

yar · Apr 5, 2011

Oops. Just looked it up and it was "Hemo the Magnificent" and it was done by Bell Labs.
 
yar

Tech Tee · Apr 5, 2011

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<div class="quote-block">Originally Posted by yar <a href="/forum/thread/73336/movies-they-made-you-watch-in-school#post_1992638"><img alt="View Post" class="inlineimg" src="/img/forum/go_quote.gif" style="border:0px solid;"></a> Oops. Just looked it up and it was "Hemo the Magnificent" and it was done by Bell Labs.
 
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 Speaking of Bell Labs, back when the world was right, and AT&T owned it all, we saw a movie, put out by AT&T, called "It Couldn't Be Done" ("They said it couldn't be done" maybe)?, which was pretty awesome. It chronicled the making of the Golden Gate, Hoover Dam, etc.

RandMart · Apr 5, 2011

I didn't see it in school, but "Skinny and Fatty" from CBS Children's Film Festival stuck with me

[follow the links to watch Parts 2-5]

gretriever · Apr 5, 2011

Skinny and Fatty? OMG, it's been years since I've heard of that one.
 
It seemed like every time I saw that show (I want to say it was late Saturday morning or during the noon hour), it was that same damn movie.

RandMart · Apr 5, 2011

See, that was when I lived in Connecticut and before my Saturday afternoons here in South Jersey were spent with <a href="http://www.maskdr.com/DrShock/index.html" target="_blank">Dr. Shock</a>
 
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gretriever · Apr 5, 2011

Thank goodness the CFF was replaced by some quality shows like Pee Wee's Playhouse. <img alt="biggrin.gif" id="user_yui_3_3_0_8_130202516394643" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/biggrin.gif" style="width:16px;height:16px;">

Tech Tee · Apr 5, 2011

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<div class="quote-block">Originally Posted by RandMart <a href="/forum/thread/73336/movies-they-made-you-watch-in-school#post_1992652"><img alt="View Post" class="inlineimg" src="/img/forum/go_quote.gif" style="border-bottom:0px solid;border-left:0px solid;border-top:0px solid;border-right:0px solid;"></a> See, that was when I lived in Connecticut and before my Saturday afternoons here in South Jersey were spent with <a href="http://www.maskdr.com/DrShock/index.html" target="_blank">Dr. Shock</a>
 
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The Shocky Doc was awesome. Every Friday (or Saturday, I can't remember), I stayed up after midnight to watch those movies.

RandMart · Apr 5, 2011

RaisingArizonainNH · Apr 5, 2011

We had field trips in grammar school to see" Tora! Tora! Tora! ", "Beckett" and "Romeo and Juliet." I vaguely remember watching the Red Balloon in high School. I remember watching movies in High School Psych-Soc class- Three Faces of Eve, and Days of Wine and Roses.

Tech Tee · Apr 5, 2011

<div class="quote-container">Quote:
<div class="quote-block">Originally Posted by RaisingArizonainNH <a href="/forum/thread/73336/movies-they-made-you-watch-in-school#post_1992692"><img alt="View Post" class="inlineimg" src="/img/forum/go_quote.gif" style="border-bottom:0px solid;border-left:0px solid;border-top:0px solid;border-right:0px solid;"></a> We had field trips in grammar school to see" Tora! Tora! Tora! ", "Beckett" and "Romeo and Juliet." I vaguely remember watching the Red Balloon in high School. I remember watching movies in High School Psych-Soc class- Three Faces of Eve, and Days of Wine and Roses.
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You saw Tora! Tora! Tora! in elementary school? Granted, I did when I was that age, but I certainly didn't see that on school property.

wherestheportojohn · Apr 5, 2011

just want you folks to know, that one of my mad skeelz as an elementary teacher was to master the art of the:
 
film projector....I hated that thing. would always end up threading it upside down or backwards <img alt="frocket.gif" id="user_yui_3_3_0_8_130203702610929" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/frocket.gif" style="width:100px;height:33px;">
overhead projector
filmstrip projector
opaque projector
gigantic and dangerous green television on a roll cart (yoiks!)
 
 
and of course, the lovely purple-inked mimeograph machine
 
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wherestheportojohn · Apr 5, 2011

yar,
I loved loved LOVED Hemo the Magnificent!!! OMG! I think that thing was 3-4 full reels long!
 
 
I recall being fascinated with the Red Balloon film. <img alt="smile.gif" id="user_yui_3_3_0_8_130203736985929" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/smile.gif" style="width:16px;height:16px;">

Mrtambalynman · Apr 5, 2011

Hamlet - the Lawrence Olivier version
Macbeth - the Polanski version
The don't drink and drive movie with the horrible pictures of MVA deaths.

coachie · Apr 6, 2011

The only actual film films I recall seeing were, The Bridge Over the River Quai and The Outsiders.
 
Both pretty good.
 
We saw some other ones, drinking and driving, etc, etc...

Movies they made you watch in school

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