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Perversion for Profit

This is from a fun film from the wonderful Prelinger Archives of archival and stock footage. Over 4000 titles from 1927 to 1987. My favourites are the 1950's "social education" films such as "Perversion for Profit", and "Are you Popular?". Perversion for Profit: "Anti-pornography film produced by financier Charles Keating, linking pornography to the Communist conspiracy and the decline of Western civilization." Made in 1965 and sponsored by Citizens for Decent Literature, Inc. (now available on t-shirt and thong) Are You Popular?: A "Social Guidence" film from 1947 that explains how teenage girls can become poular without "parking in cars"

About the author: Ian Woolf lives in Sydney, has a degree in Applied Science, worked as a solar astronomer, software engineer, systems programmer, webmaster, research assistant, Cisco CCNA tutor, Physics laboratory demonstrator, Computational Theory lecturer, and subject coordinator; while changing his career to freelance writing and broadcasting. Listen to Ian on the Diffusion radio science show on radio 2SER 107.3FM Monday at 6:30pm in Sydney or streaming audio on www.2ser.com, or listen to the Diffusion podcasts. You should follow me on twitter, here

Posted by iwoolf at August 27, 2004 11:02 PM | TrackBack