Tuesday, December 30, 2008

LOL: Weird Filmland (Drugs, Sex and Nuclear War)

It's fun to laugh at old movies, especially because the people in them are dead so they can't get mad at you for laughing. We've culled some gems from the recent and not-so-recent past for your kitschy and ironic approval.


"Co-Ed Secrets" is the kind of film that guys in the late 50's would have watched at a "stag" party. Today, the film is practically SFW. My, how times have changed. Watch for the scene at the end where the "sorority girl" flashes her paddle to the camera. The Greek letters (roughly) correspond with S-E-X.



An all-time classic, "Duck and Cover" was an official Civil Defense film from 1951 that tells kids to survive a nuclear attack by hiding behind a tree.



This anti-drug educational film, "Drugs Are Like That" was made in the 1979 and narrated by famed prude, Anita Bryant. In the PSA, two kids discuss drugs while putting together a huge LEGO creation that becomes a metaphor for the evils of drug use. It's a perfect example of how anti-drug films of the era did a super job of making drugs seem really, really interesting to kids.