Educational film regarding family planning, sex education and contraception
- Popular Culture: Section I
- Title
- Educational film regarding family planning, sex education and contraception
- Date
- 1960s
- Document Type
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- Video
- Themes
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- Sex and Sexuality
- Women's Rights
- Description
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Diagram of female reproductive organs, description of the various organs and how they work.
Sperm travelling along the fallopian tubes and fertilising an egg.
Methods of Family Planning: A man in a white coat stands in front of a blackboard in a classroom set up at family planning clinic. Various couples sit at desks listening. Diagram of female reproductive organs.
A young couple sit at a desk in a doctors office. The doctor holds up a calendar and rings certain numbers as he describes the menstrual cycle. Images of sperm under a microscope.
Couples listening to the man in the classroom as he explains oral contraceptives. Close-up of the various types of contraceptive pill. A woman appears naked but in silhouette. Diagram of the ovaries superimposed and a line from the brain to indicate the pill preventing the egg from being released. Close-up showing the sperm in the fallopian tubes with no egg.
Another young couple in an office talk to a doctor.
A doctor gives a diaphragm to another couple. The man nods and squeezes it. The doctor applies spermicidal gel to the diaphragm. Diagram of the diaphragm in place in the vagina demonstrating how blocks and kills sperm. The doctor holds a container with different sizes of diaphragm. The woman smiles and nods.
Classroom. Close-up various types of the Intrauterine Device. A nurse opens the door and a young couple walk into to a doctor's office. Diagram of devices in place.
Review of contraceptive methods already discussed.
Close-up of the vaginal spermicides which can be obtained without prescription. Demonstration of applicator used. Diagram of the spermicide in the vagina killing the sperm.
Close-up of a condom and hands unravelling it. Diagram of the penis in the vagina and the sperm being blocked by the condom.
Discussion of more permanent solutions. Diagram of the male reproductive organs. Description of a vasectomy and how it blocks the sperm from entering the semen during ejaculation.
Another couple talk to a doctor, discussing "tubal ligation". Diagram of the female reproductive organs and lines to indicate where there is a barrier between the egg and the fallopian tubes.
Man draws on blackboard in classroom. Couples leave the clinic. Final tag line: "Pregnancy. By choice or by chance: it's up to you". Final shot of a naked man and woman in silhouette.
- Audible
- Sound
- Colour
- Colour
- Credit
- Huntley Film Archives [Please Note: downloading video content is strictly prohibited]
- Duration
- 00:14:19