Comments on: 16mm Educational Films

By: keelsetter

keelsetter — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:42:51 +0000

Thanks for the groovy link! While I realize that “Carving Magic” has a bit more flair, I’m still surprised they didn’t call it “Turkey Trouble.”

By: Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:09:22 +0000

Carving Magic is probably best viewed over at http://www.archive.org. I guess the connection with Blood Feast, besides the whole raw meat thing, is the fact Korman was in an early Herschell Gordon Lewis film, Living Venus.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:06:53 +0000

I have a copy of that LSD film with the talking hot dog, it’s on one of Fantomas’s Sex & Drugs DVDs of educational films. It’s a great series, but some of the titles in this article don’t appear in it.

That Hollymatic infomercial reminds me of the educational flick about selecting and preparing meat that features a young(ish) Harvey Korman! I think it’s on the Something Weird DVD of Blood Feast. It’s called Carving Magic (it’s probably on YouTube as well).

By: keelsetter

keelsetter — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:24:39 +0000

Liver, eh? That reminds me: I have a vague memory of an educational film I saw a long time ago that had to do with LSD where the guy talks to his hot dog (and the hot dog had a face). And, speaking of meat products, let’s not forget the Hollymatic Meat Molder – a 30 min. infomercial on the wonders of “modern” meat packaging and presentation. That was the perfect thing to toss on before Bob Balaban’s PARENTS (1989).

By: Richard Harland Smith

Richard Harland Smith — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:58:10 +0000

I used to love Insight and it's liver lipped Paulist host!

By: medusamorlock

medusamorlock — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:31:21 +0000

This looks like my kind of stuff! Interesting that the film with the Downs little girl would be more honest than anything *I* ever saw in school. Those weren’t so much to teach you, really, as to get you primed to buy products from Kotex, whose name was all over the little booklets which you got to keep.

I notice the “Insight” episode stars Geraldine Brooks and Lloyd Bochner, two staples of 1960s/1970s TV work. Miss Brooks starred in two incredible “Outer Limits” episodes, the one where Robert Culp is changed into a monster, and the one where William Shatner is an astronaut who also undergoes a transformation when he returns to earth. She was a lovely actress — married to Budd Schulberg — and died in 1977 at the age of 51 from cancer.

And as for the question seemingly posed above — “Menstruation?” “Yes or No?” — put me down for a no! :-)

Neat topic and post!