1950's Childbirth Training Video

[bubbagump]

So back when I was a Junior in High school, I was taking a Criminal Justice class. Our teacher was old school. She had been a Deputy for awhile back in the day. Some of you may actually know her (she seems to know a lot of people).

So one day she brings out this old movie projector and puts on this video that looked like it was filmed in the 1950's. It was a training video for either the CHP or LA Sheriffs. The acting was REALLY bad, but it was hilarious. This lady is about to have a kid, so they put her in the back seat of the unit and pull her dress up.

All the students in the class were thinking this was going to be "Rated G". Boy were we wrong. Her water breaks and she starts to crown. All the guys in the class were dry heaving. Then the baby comes out and the placenta follows soon after and some kid says, "She was hiding drugs in that bag!".

So the officer cuts the cord and puts the placenta in a bag and that basically it.

Anyone else seen this movie?

[retired]

So back when I was a Junior in High school, I was taking a Criminal Justice class. Our teacher was old school. She had been a Deputy for awhile back in the day. Some of you may actually know her (she seems to know a lot of people).

So one day she brings out this old movie projector and puts on this video that looked like it was filmed in the 1950's. It was a training video for either the CHP or LA Sheriffs. The acting was REALLY bad, but it was hilarious. This lady is about to have a kid, so they put her in the back seat of the unit and pull her dress up.

All the students in the class were thinking this was going to be "Rated G". Boy were we wrong. Her water breaks and she starts to crown. All the guys in the class were dry heaving. Then the baby comes out and the placenta follows soon after and some kid says, "She was hiding drugs in that bag!".

So the officer cuts the cord and puts the placenta in a bag and that basically it.

Anyone else seen this movie?

I don't recall seeing it, but about that bolded part; I'm pretty sure it was the CHP since they are bad actors after all.

[sgtbuck]

I don't recall seeing it, but about that bolded part; I'm pretty sure it was the CHP since they are bad actors after all.

All roads and all codes but they can't act......

[retired]

I googled "1950 lasd childbirth training film," and tho nothing from the 1950s came up, the first item listed shows a live birth in a car with Berkeley PD involved. It was a training film from 1966. The acting was horrible, but it does show a live birth.

Even tho it appears the birth took place in a car, I doubt if it did. I think it was just set up to look like it.

Any lasd member here can probably check the actual media records and could probably ascertain if there was such a training film. Being retired, I don't have that access anymore.

I was in a couple, but certainly not that type nor from that era (before someone suggests I am that old).

[five.five-six]

I've seen this sort of thing before, it's not pretty





and it gets worser




and even worser....sort of like a car crash in slow motion

[five.five-six]

I googled "1950 lasd childbirth training film," and tho nothing from the 1950s came up,

I just googled the same thing and the first thing to come up was.... OMG

[bubbagump]

I googled "1950 lasd childbirth training film," and tho nothing from the 1950s came up, the first item listed shows a live birth in a car with Berkeley PD involved. It was a training film from 1966. The acting was horrible, but it does show a live birth.

Even tho it appears the birth took place in a car, I doubt if it did. I think it was just set up to look like it.

Any lasd member here can probably check the actual media records and could probably ascertain if there was such a training film. Being retired, I don't have that access anymore.

I was in a couple, but certainly not that type nor from that era (before someone suggests I am that old).

You found it!

Its called "SUDDEN BIRTH"

http://www.wonderhowto.com/how-to/video/how-to-deliver-a-baby-in-an-emergency-50607/

[five.five-six]

ok, sure, but this is the part thatt freeked me out

[9mmepiphany]

that looks like a better movie than the one we watched in the academy.

i don't know who made it, but it looked like it was one a garage and on a table. it was supposed to be a doctor and his wife filming her giving birth...i'll bet he got to write that off on his taxes.

the first comment from the recruits was "ED (the class rah rah) go bit off those hemorrhoids for her"...it's a dangerous thing to turn off the lights in a classroom, we were lucky the instructor was cool

[five.five-six]

WOW!, they don't leave a damb thing to the imagination,now do they

[yelohamr]

In cases like what was shown in the film, you should wear your rain gear... and a catcher's mitt.

[9mmepiphany]

i think the first time you see it happening in real life isn't the time to be surprised

[sgtbuck]

NO NO NO Hold it in until the FD gets here. Station H we need paramedics code 3 like yesterday!!!!! OHH GOD I knew I should have called off tonight!!!

Seriously I watched all three of my kids born but never even came close to seeing it in the field. It’s about the only thing I never saw while working a beat car.

[five.five-six]

I watched my son be born C-section... sorta like the cafeteria scene in the original "Alien" but you can smell them cauterizing the incision

[retired]

I just googled the same thing and the first thing to come up was.... OMG

That's pretty funny; I'm finally first at something.


bubbagump, I thought you said 1950s; the one I found was 1966. Oh, just reread what you wrote: "It looked like it was filmed in the 1950s."

Yeah, even tho it said 1966, it did look 50ish. Still, lousy acting. If you read the comments on the site, one of the posters said his mom was in charge of the script or something like that.