I remember watching a movie in 3rd grade about School Bus Safety. I remember a boy playing around a snowy street by the school bus - the bus started to run away and the next scene we saw was blood in the snow. Made me feel sick more than scared me - BUT I suppose it left an impression - I am now 38 and I remember that from that long ago!!!

Sent by Angie | 2:55 PM ET | 08-13-2007

This is one of the best adult education film i have seen. It centers around forklift safty. It is in german but the point is clearly made;-]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sdjt6Bl5qdY

Sent by greg | 2:55 PM ET | 08-13-2007

I can't believe no one has yet (west coast) mentioned the mystery science theatre shorts! A couple on railroad safety and one on the virtues of shop class for starters. SO wonderful. In my driver's ed class we watched "tales of the ohio state patrol" or somesuch (basically ur-cops) and the memorable moment for me came when they picked up a stretcher and a head rolled down the embankment. Sigh. But no Brokeback Mountain for you!

Sent by Jennifer Eisenberg | 4:58 PM ET | 08-13-2007

I remember watching "Growing Up and Liking It" in the dank basement of my 19th century elementary school in Baltimore. It was a 1950's classic explaining, with a male narrator, all about the exciting new frontier of getting your period. It was sepia-toned, with girls in poodle skirts, with lots of euphemisms and a few gynecological charts. It was pretty funny.

Sent by Jane Jordan | 5:03 PM ET | 08-13-2007

1977-- I was7 years old and was diagnosed with Type 1 Juvenile Diabetes-- there wasn't a "Type 2" back then that I was aware of.. I had the type with multiple daily injections per day.
So they put me in a room to watch a video.
First thing I recall is "Happy The Hypo".. Hypodermic needle was what Happy was... and HUGE LONG needle Happy had... prior to this I was getting my insulin thru an I. V.

Then Happy would go around and stick her needle up people's butts... and arms ... and tummies...

Why is Happy so happy I wondered???

And then there was a boy that was given the task to get empathy from his parents-- so he would inject saline into his father's tummy. The ZEAL, the ENERGY, THE SHEER JOY this boy displayed scared me to death! He ran to the father's exposed tummy ( a bit of a beer belly; but only slight I recall AND I DO RECALL the father had a cigarette in one hand!)

and the boy just JAMMED HAPPY THEY HYPO in Dad's tummy... So this I recall because I could hardly wait to do so to MY FATHER!!! (I love my Dad but for some reason-- I believe it was my maternal grandmother that HATED my father) led me to believe I got this terrible disease DUE to my father (later it is more linked to the fact MY MOTHER did NOT breast feed me...) So I just thought-- IF HAPPY can be used as a weapon.. so be it..

And the end of the film was how to sterilize our needles-- and I thought was odd because in 1977 we were just getting the disposable kind; but no adult told me otherwise-- so I would boil my plastic syringes and some would melt...

AND ALWAYS to properly dispose of my needle -- and they showed this FUNERAL SCENE IN ANIMATION for HAPPY... and "Don't let N'er Do Wells" ever use your needle... and to THIS DAY I am unsure of what was meant... I was 7.. my parents were straight as arrows-- no drugs, alcohol or cigarettes.. so had NO CLUE for DECADES what a person would do with my used HAPPY....and then to find out the 1/4 inch long needle could NEVER be used for IV type drug use;-)

So HAPPY THE HYPO for pre pubescents with Juvenile Type 1 Diabetes... I was NOT Happy with this Hypo film;-)

Sent by Lauran Gangl-Plant | 5:11 PM ET | 08-13-2007

At my rather big-name college in Illinois, the student health services center mandated that every young woman coming in for her first gynecological exam must watch a video called something like "Gretchen goes to the gyno" that shows, in live-action, full close-up detail, exactly what would happen during the impending Pap smear. Traumatic . . .

Sent by anonymous | 12:27 AM ET | 08-14-2007

"Hemo", the super-hero cartoon representation of hemoglobin, the hero of our bloodstreams, stands out in my memory from many, many animated shorts we were shown in grade-school in the early to mid 1960's, all sponsored by the then only phone company there was, A T & T. Flash-forward to 1967, James Coburn in the hysterical farce, "The President's Analyst", (he's LBJ's shrink on the run)in which the producers hired the same animation team to do their short at the end of the film explaining how The Phone Company wants to "eliminate all this expensive switching equipment" by implanting a chip in everybody's brain so we can make phone calls by just thinking of the number. The cartoon chip dances around just like Hemo.This film was supressed, no joke, for years by A T & T, now it's out on disc. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062153/

BTW, after Monty Python John Cleese formed a production company making business & industrial videos & was very busy at it. The German forklift referenced above looks like his.

Sent by Paul H., in N.J. | 8:48 AM ET | 08-14-2007