Educational film
An educational film is a film that deals with taboo topics - primarily from the area of sexuality .
Emergence
Germany
The first educational films were made during the First World War . On behalf of the German War Ministry, Richard Oswald presented with Let there be light! made an educational film about sexually transmitted diseases . This film was followed by three more educational productions, and in 1919 Richard Oswald addressed and criticized the social discrimination of homosexuals for the first time in a film in Anders als die Andern .
Austria
The first Austrian educational film was also made during the war: in the Viennese art film production The Scourge of Mankind was educated about hereditary diseases. With government subsidies, the pan film presented alcohol, sexuality and crime and how do I tell my children? here. An important Austrian educational film maker of these years was Leopold Niernberger .
censorship
After the end of the First World War, there was initially no film censorship in Germany until 1920 , which means that voyeuristic films were also added to the serious educational films for the first time. These moral films , produced with purely commercial interest, advertised lurid titles such as Hyenas of Lust (1919) and addressed primarily male viewers who expected freedom of movement and nude scenes. Often such films also pretended to be educational films. For example Dances of Horror and Vice (1923) with a boozy and half-naked Anita Berber . The first wave of educational films ended before 1925, when this genre was ousted from cinemas by voyeuristic productions.
1960 to 1970
In the 1960s and 1970s there was again an increase in educational films, with Oswalt Kolle in particular making a name for himself. In 1967 the educational film Helga was made at the instigation of the Minister of Health Käte Strobel . Many more, mostly irrelevant films received support from the federal government in the form of the Federal Center for Health Education. An unpredictable side effect of these educational films was the sex wave .