13163_8331_fifties_vd_scare
Footage offers guidance and advice on safe sex, though mostly through warnings. Describes the dangers of being ignorant of sex and pretending to be "mature" or adult.
Begins with written text which the camera pans down as it is read by a narrator whose tone is not unlike a news broadcaster. The text describes the dangers of the prudent nature which has lead to sex becoming a taboo subject and therefore one which many are ignorant of. The focus moves onto the social situations thrown up by the Second World War. Cuts to a WS of a active street at night. Cuts to MS of a room full of dancing young folk. Cuts to a MCU of youths, attempting to act old through smoking and drinking, at a table. Cuts to MS one of the youths asking for a cigarette from the man behind. Cuts to a MS of girls on the sidewalk, lit in the night by a shops lights. The narrator warns against the easy attention girls get from “footloose” service men and the common sense that these men are war heroes and therefore it is apart of the girls duty to deny nothing. Cuts to a MS of such a girl returning home late and brushing of her “fuddy duddy” mother’s attempts at discipline.