Worst film,video, short, etc. you had to watch in School?

[pstokely]

I'm talking about your entire educational career. One movie that sticks out for me is "The Buttercream Gang". We watched a lot of stuff on laserdiscs(didn't know anyone who had a laserdisc player besides the school) and stuff the teacher taped off PBS. I also remember watching a sex-ed film from what I think was the 70s in 1995 (it was on tape). Never watched anything on a film projector unless filmstrips count. Had a few gen-x teachers who showed Schoolhouse Rock shorts.

Buttercream Gang clips here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOWW-r0AWr8

[dana_b]

1. Blood on the Highway

:P

[AnArmyVeteran]

2. Blood on the Highway was a gruesome one!

[GoCubsGo]

6. Not as bad as "Red Asphalt."

They were all pretty bad...

[cherokeeprogressive]

25. Signal 30

I nearly tossed my lunch watching that in Driver's Ed.

[muffin1]

3. The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

Part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN5V8cQ2DAk


Part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMOMcO0vlfo&feature=related

Truly disturbing to a child. Actually, I think we watched that several times throughout elementary school.

[LeftinOH]

8. Elementary School? What the hell? That's a very *adult* story about the

perils of not questioning tradition- but it's too much for children.

[muffin1]

9. It scared the crap out of me.

I'll bet I saw it for the first time in second or third grade. No wonder I'm so fucked up!:P

[mattvermont]

21. I live in the village where

Jackson wrote that story...in fact, she lived next door.
It is chilling how spot on she was

[cyberswede]

12. I agree

I was definitely in elementary school when we saw that one - can't remember the grade - 4th maybe?
Way too disturbing...I still don't like to think about it.

[RagAss]

13. Reminds me of Tea-Baggers.

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. "The Day After" and the one about school bus safety, where kids get hit and run over

[Kali]

5. You are becoming a woman or some such drivel.

segregated progenitor of the infomercial for kotex - in 6th grade

[Burma Jones]

7. The Return of Count Spirochete

Produced by the US Navy and shown to us not in Phys Ed, but in Sophomore Biology....We also saw other really peachy Military Health films in that class, like B&W film of humans in cages with end stage Rabies.....

[bamacrat]

10. I liked The Buttercream Gang. Probably wouldn't now but...

I hated the one that showed you how to check for testicular cancer, then the teacher passed around a set of rubber cancer balls. Weird. I guess it was a good learning experience but weird. We didn't have sex-ed in my school. When they finally brought it in it was only for 10th grader and I was in 11th, and you had to have a parents signature to attend. I forged a few kids parents signatures the day before. Guys who were either to embarrassed to ask their parents or they said no brought in something with their parents signature on it and I copied it to the form, and for no fee, I was doing my good for the people.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

11. Anti-Communism propaganda film lauding the 1964 military coup and subsequent dictatorship in Brazil.

Beat THAT.

[RagAss]

14. Night and Fog

[NoPasaran]

15. Squad Drill

Starring Drill Sergeant Vick. The ROTC instructor showed that whenever he was too hungover to do anything more ambitious.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

16. Signal 30.

The original gory car accident film. They showed it to us before Prom Night. It was horrendous.

http://www.archive.org/details/Signal301959

[Rhythm]

18. I remember watching that one in Driver's Ed... *puke*

[Haole Girl]

17. Red Asphalt

:puke:

[LibDemAlways]

27. That was bad. My daughter took driver's ed recently and there were

no accident movies at all. Not sure if it's better to show kids the gore or avoid it all together.

[Ghost of Tom Joad]

19. Le sang des betes by George Franju

better known as Blood of the Beasts about a French slaughterhouse. Very hard to watch, and hard to eat meat after.

[Odin2005]

20. Anti-drug videos telling you how horrible pot is.

:eyes:

[rurallib]

22. I am an old guy. In the 50s we saw lots of film strips involving hiding

under you desks and covering your head while the AMERICANS and the ROOSKIES killed everyone else.
I was never sure whether to laugh or cry hysterically.

[Captain Hilts]

23. Sonny Bono's anti-drug film. I saw it in three different states. That bright orange Neru suit...nt

[MiddleFingerMom]

26. HEY!!!!!

.
I had a bright orange (actually it was more of a "burnt" orange) Nehru jacket!!
.
.
Luckily, my older sister stole it from me and took it away to college.
.

[Writer]

24. "How do you do. I am Julius Sumner Miller...

and physics is my business."



My favorite was when he "jacked off" a glass rod with a towel, then placed it between two suspended metal balls in order to demonstrate friction. :rofl:

[hyphenate]

28. I ain't got anything

I don't remember anything, but then I'm older than dirt when it comes to my school years. Seems I suffer from something called "IcantrememberbecauseIforgotitis" which only affects those of us who sustained heavy brain damage at the hands of al-qaida, splinter-cell traitors, conveniently called teachers.

[hyphenate]

29. Altho, strictly for the fun of it

there is a "school" type film built into the movie, Johnny Dangerously, where Johnny has to keep his younger brother on track, who wants to leave school and have sex with his girlfriend (it is supposed to be in the 30's). The younger brother comes over and Johnny plays "Your Testicles and You." Quite entertaining, actually! (NOT!)

[carlyhippy]

30. some puberty film that only the girls went to

the boys got to go outside and have an extra recess, while we stuck in an auditorium

[Tommy_Carcetti]

31. In college we watched "The Thief, His Wife, The Cook, and The Lover" (or whatever it was called)

But here's the thing....it was an evening class, and we were free to bring in food to eat during class while we watched it.

And, well, the ending scene of that movie sort of killed my appetite for several days. I'm not kidding....