Dance, Little Children

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The film provides insight into the public health efforts to combat the spread of syphilis. The infection has gotten out of control in a small town where local health officials seek assistanc... Read allThe film provides insight into the public health efforts to combat the spread of syphilis. The infection has gotten out of control in a small town where local health officials seek assistance from the state health department. Help comes in the form of a health representative who ... Read allThe film provides insight into the public health efforts to combat the spread of syphilis. The infection has gotten out of control in a small town where local health officials seek assistance from the state health department. Help comes in the form of a health representative who interviews young people who are infected in order to identify others who are at risk of be... Read all

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Leonard Belove

Hal's Father

Maurice Copeland

Dr. Sam

Herk Harvey

Parent

Tom McGinnis

Mr. Kendrick

Director
- Herk Harvey
Writer
- Margaret Travis
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The kid interrogated at 16 minutes, Dennis Reardon, went on to become one of Joseph Papp's playwrights in the early 70s, garnering three productions from the Public Theater including "The Leaf People" which was produced on Broadway in 1975.

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Narrator: As doctors are human, so there may be in their hearts the wish that some things just couldn't be. But as doctors are men of science, dedicated to the welfare of all their fellow beings, that wish must give way to a review of the facts. And the facts leave no room for wishful thinking. In the long years of his practice, Dr. Sam has too often seen the final tragedy of latent, untreated syphilis.

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Featured in Teenage Turmoil Vol. 2 (2000)

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10/10

Very helpful(thankful that I saw it)

Dance, Little Children(1961) was one of the films that I viewed in Personal and Community Health at Monmouth College, now Monmouth University (New Jersey). It was very helpful in warning of the dangers of venereal disease. AIDS was then unknown, but syphilis and gonorrhea WERE prevalent. Many dopes assumed that those were okay diseases because they respond to penicillin. FLUSH THAT! There is NO SUCH THING AS AN OKAY DISEASE! Penicillin itself is all very well for me, as I am not allergic, though I would be better off having penicillin TABLETS or injection in the ARM; I am terrified of injections in the BUTTOCKS because such a shot would impair ability to sit. The film was helpful, but will not do the job alone. Most important is to recognize that sex is God's gift to us, meant to be PARTNERSHIP between the sexes, NOT CONTROL AND DOMINATION! Promiscuity (which increases risk) is part of control-and-domination approach (NOT the way sex is meant to be),but the film showed that one can contract disease from someone CLOSE as well as from a stranger. All in all, a very he