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Gonorrhea

January 1943 •English

Diagnosis of gonorrhea should be done by clinical and laboratory investigation. The physician and patients are shown in the physician's office and examining room. The patients remove their clothing, and the physician takes samples from the end of the penis and makes thin smear slides from them. The techniques for stripping gonococci from male and female patients with chronic gonorrhea are shown in drawings and live footage. The physician is shown getting and preparing a urine sample for laboratory testing for the presence of gonococci, including using a hand-cranked centrifuge. The material is packaged to be sent away for laboratory diagnosis by gram stain and culture.

Station IV

January 1948 •German

Educational film about sexually transmitted diseases.

Geißel der Menschheit

January 1926 •German

Venereal disease threatens to tear a young couple apart.

Truth About Rock

January 1989 •English

For the past year or so, brothers Jim and Steve Peters, both ordained ministers, have been traveling around the nation on a mission from God. Convinced that rock and roll is "one of the largest satanic forces in the country," they have been exhorting American kids to build bonfires of albums in public places.

Syphilis: A Motion Picture Clinic

January 1937 •English

This American Medical Association (AMA) and U.S. Public Health Service (PHS)-sponsored film aims to present the most current knowledge about causes, effects, and treatment of syphilis. Remarks by the heads of the AMA and PHS open the film, and doctors are shown lecturing and describing symptoms and indications of primary and secondary syphilis. Clinical techniques for examining patients and testing for syphilis are shown. Recommended treatments including arsenic, bismuth, and mercury for various manifestations and duration of disease are presented.

Es ist leider so!

January 1946 •German

Short sex education film about STDs.

Mit den Augen einer Frau

March 1949 •German

Schleichendes Gift

Invalid date •German

VD: Know Your Contacts

January 1968 •English

Shows how people, faced with the possibility or reality of being infected with venereal disease, cope with their individual situations.

The Scarlet Trail

December 1918 •English

A docudrama aimed at propagandizing the prevention of venereal disease

6 Little Jungle Boys

November 1945 •English

A short animated War Office commissioned health education film, showing the fate of each of the 6 jungle soldiers.

SIZZLIN’ BACON

December 2016 •Dutch

Jurgen Vanderspek (a.k.a. James Vanderbacon) is a senior in high school. He is a loudmouthed macho who loves to tell juicy anecdotes about his sexual escapades, but actually, he is still a virgin. When, one drunken evening, Cissy ends up in his bed, Jurgen gets much more than he bargained for.

Damaged Goods

December 1919 •English

A quack doctor 'cures' a victim of venereal disease, whose baby is later born infected.

The Escape

June 1914 •English

A dramatic comparison between the mating habits of animals and the way humans choose their own partners. The film is now considered to be a lost film.

Sins of the Father

December 1911 •English

Adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts.

Sex Madness

April 1938 •English

A young beauty queen travels to New York to further her modelling career, but contracts syphilis after being tricked into a sexual encounter. She is torn between the prospect of a slow, intensive but proven therapy and a supposed miracle cure.

Street Acquaintances

April 1948 •German

The film centres around the young woman Erika, desperately seeking for love and escape from the depression of the times, drifting, and in the end becoming involved with a circle of rich people who sell goods for sexual favours.

The Solitary Sin

July 1919 •English

Bob, John, and Edward--three young boys growing up in the same neighborhood--have vastly-different experiences with sex. Bob's father patiently explains "the birds and the bees" to him, and even takes him to a hospital to see the effects of venereal disease.

Open Your Eyes

May 1919 •English

A propagandistic melodrama recounting the dangers and horrors of venereal disease.

Should We Be Silent?

April 1926 •German

A melodrama about a painter who is infected with syphilis, refuses treatment, turns to the use instead of narcotics, and withers away.