Sponsored Films

Gift of Life (1920)
Sponsor: American Social Hygiene Association. Production Co.: Unknown. Transfer Note: Scanned from a 1-inch video transfer of a 16mm print held by the Library of Congress. Running Time: 49 minutes (incomplete, silent, no music).

Early sex education film sponsored by the national group created to inform the public about sexuality and venereal disease. In Gift of Life a scientist helps a boy observe the reproductive processes of tiny plants and animals under a microscope and uses animated diagrams to explain the reproductive processes of higher animals and humans.

Note: The film was made for high school and college students, PTA groups, and similar audiences and praised by state educational authorities. It was later distributed in 16mm and revised in 1939.

Resources
Educational Film Catalog, comps. Dorothy E. Cook and Eva Rahbek-Smith (New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1936), 36; Educational Film Catalog, comps. Dorothy E. Cook and Eva Rahbek-Smith (New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1939), 152.