Skip Elsheimer and AV Geeks have been getting a lot of attention lately. From Digital City’s top reason Raleigh is awesome to, the latest, a plug on CBS Sunday Morning.
Film Critic David Edelstein’s segment on alternative video gifts for the holidays featured two DVDs that were recently released by Kino Video. The two DVDs are collections of educational shorts from the AV/Geeks Film Library. One is focused on men (How to be a Man) and the other on women (How to be a Woman). Below is what Edelstein had to say about the DVDs (which will make a great local gift this holiday season):
You want to get weird? Try two DVDs from Kino and Skip Elsheimer’s educational film archive, “How to Be a Man” and “How to Be a Woman”: Social hygiene lessons from the Fifties and Sixties. These shorts are hoots, but also kind of touching. My cousin, the sociology professor, thinks when men came back from the war they were so shaken they tried to enforce a so-called normalcy that had never existed. They bored kids to tears - which led, of course, to youth culture and sex, drugs, and rock-‘n-roll.
Below are links to buy both of the DVDs from Kino:
How to be a Man (Classic Educational Shorts - Volume 1)
Instructions for Proper Male Behavior from Classroom Films of the 1940s -‘70s.
How to be a Woman (Educational Shorts Vol. 2)
Instructions for Proper Female Behavior from Classroom Films of the 1940s - ‘80s.
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