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Use Your Head
Animation Black & White Educational & Instructional SoundApril 29, 2015January 24, 2023

Commandments for Health

By Michael Rhode and Michael Sappol, PhD

Inspired by the U.S. Army’s popular “Private Snafu” animated cartoon series, late in World War II the Navy hired Hugh Harman (1908–82) to do a similar series, focused on health.

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Easy
Black & White Educational & Instructional SoundJune 6, 2014January 15, 2020

Child-men, Fast Women, Venereal Nightmares and Racial Uplift…

By Mikita Brottman

Made shortly after the end of World War 2, this curious little nightmare movie addresses black soldiers. It depicts them as overgrown, impulsive, hypersexualized children who are not able to contain their primordial desires.

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Combat
Black & White Educational & Instructional SoundAugust 2, 2013January 6, 2020

Gene Kelly’s Unknown Wartime Star Turn

By Michael Sappol, PhD

As America entered World War II, the prestige of science and technology was very high. From early on, the conflict was seen as a total war and a modern war, requiring modern methods in every respect.

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A white woman leans on her hand looking down at something while an older woman speaks to her.

In the next Medicine on Screen essay, Seth Watter examines a use of cinema in psychiatry. Folie à Deux (1951) and The Faces of Depression (1959) are examples of attempts to create “diagnostic cinema,” a deployment of film to aid in the recognition and treatment of mental illnesses. Both Canadian productions depict a brief period before the domination of a pharmaceutical approach in which cinema was seen as a method to promote physician empathy.

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A group of ten men and women in business atire sit in a circle. Journey into Self (1968)

This is a filming of the first session of an intensive basic encounter group led by Dr. Carl Rogers, widely known for developing a client-centered approach to psychotherapy and as a founder of humanistic psychology, and Dr. Richard Farson, a founder of the Western Behavioral Sciences Institute. The session features eight previously-unacquainted persons from different regions of the United States, participating in a loosely structured, conversational “encounter,” a form of group therapy.

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