The Innocent Party (1959)

Director	Herk Harvey
Producer	Kansas State Board of Health in cooperation with U.S. Public Health Service. Produced by Centron Corp.
Contributors
Length	17 min
B&W/Color	color
UO Library Catalog description:	This film shows how a teenager contracts venereal disease from a pickup and what happens to him and his steady girl. A simple, sincere document of the nature, recognition, cure and control of syphilis.
Call #	FILM Mb109
Genre	instructional
Rare	yes
Online	yes; Internet Archive
Copyright status	public domain
Physical condition	fair
Oregon-related	no

Notes:

An sex education film that takes a feature film approach to the topic. The acting is naturalistic, albeit melodramatic. There is an interesting jazz soundtrack and the cinematography is more than utilitarian. Harvey directed over 400 other instructional movies during the 1950s-60s, including Dance, Little Children (1961).