Strictly Personal - War Department official training film (US Army Pictorial Service, 1945)
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- This film presents advice on fitness and health to servicewomen -- nutrition, rest, exercise, etc. The film gives an explanation of menses, personal hygiene, prevention of disease, care of the feet, etc.
Produced by United States Army Pictorial Service
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"Why can't I sleep?" Maybe it's the warden with the flashlight.
They come around with the flashlights to inspect your shoes lined up under the bed, to ensure that they have been lined up correctly. Touching, heels and toes together, touching. Your clothing in your wall locker needs to be one palm away from the next article of clothing.
I guess these films are the origin of the filmstrips we watched in school in the 50s and 60s. They covered everything from dating advice to avoiding conflict by not insulting people. I think we need them today.
There was a shocking lack of knowledge about the most basic health and hygiene matters among the men and women of the armed forces the US slammed together in the period 1941-44. First, they were mostly quite young; second, regional differences came into play. Farm kids and slum dwellers alike often had trouble keeping clean and organized at first, and handling money (preserving their pay); those from the Deep South and religious Midwest were sometimes completely ignorant of sexual matters, incld VD and the ways and dangers of prostitutes. The Armed Forces had to clue them in to keep them safe and working.
My mother, Florence Weinstein, is a WWII vet and will be 100 in 2024.
My dad , also a WWII Veteran, almost made 100. He recently passed away. I'm devastated. He was my hero. Best wishes to your mom.
@@kathymacellis9478I can't wait to read your comment to Mom. You were blessed to have him with you for so long. I know when she dies I'll be devastated, but I try to keep telling myself that having a parent die at such an advanced age is easier than is they are much younger.
@@steveweinstein3222 Yes, I was so blessed to have dad for so long ... As you are lucky to still have your mom. They really are the greatest generation. Such wonderful people !
@@steveweinstein3222It's devastating nomatter what age you lose a parent, but indeed you are so very lucky to have her so long with you. My dad passed away at only 68 years old. I kinda took for granted that he would be with us for at LEAST another decade, maybe two. I was definitely NOT ready to lose him and I miss him dearly every day. 💔
@@themaggattack I had no idea that Mom would still be with me in my 72nd year. She didn't, either. It's getting difficult for her, but she still lives alone - no aides, no walker. She's mentally alert (she still delivers sarcastic zingers, bless her heart). When I talk to her or visit her, I try to make sure that she has some fun, because when it's not fun anymore, that's the time to check out.
My mother was a Marine. She told me that they watched all of these movies. My father was also a Marine and that is how they met. Semper Fi Soldiers.
How romantic 😍
My grandfather was a Marine Corps colonel, but there was nothing touching about him. He was an SOB, and he'd be the first to admit it, but I did love the guy. Why, I don't have a clue.
Marines AREN'T soldiers. They're MARINES . Soldiers are in the Army. If your parents were Marines you would know that.
*My mama was also a Lady Marine. My dad was*
*in the Navy. They were also married. Theirs is a*
*true love story. Semper Fi to you also!* 💖
Soldiers are Army
We wouldn’t have won the war without them. Thanks ladies! You’re tough and look like movie stars!
As I always say, "None of us would exist without our mothers."
@@MarioMastar Not only"Mothers" you dummy. But GOOD WOMEN. Any lazy slut can become a mother, but not a MOM..
This is still the best health advice on the planet..straight forward and not for profit.
Yeah because good posture definitely gets rid of fibroids.
Some of it is highly inaccurate by todays standards though
the calories of higher fiber foods require calories to break down, so a calorie measured scientifically is not the same as a calorie metabolized.
except for peppers, kale, nuts, grains, tofu, and other super foods. That was white bread, milk and fatty meat.
for war profit
I've said it before and I will say it again: I am a firm believer that no matter who you are or what you look like, if you get in shape it will easily bump you up a whole point and a half in terms of looks
I really enjoyed this. My mother was only 24 years old when this was made and my dad was in the USArmy Air Corps which, after the war became the US Air Force into which I was born in 1948. I'm nearly 75 now and love looking at these old films and remembering how things used to be when all Americans loved America.
🙄
My mother was 21 and had just joined the W.A.V.E.S. Dad was 23 and also in the Navy. That’s where they met, at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in NJ.
@@dewilew2137Hehe, Hollywood really does only show us what they want us to see. But at least the attempt to make things better was there. Sadly watching these makes it too easy to forget if you were of a certain "Archetype" you were still a lesser person to the eyes of many. That was the REAL point of the war. Not stopping the Nazis, but stopping US from being worse than them.
What’s to love at the moment? Book banning, the overturning of Roe vs Wade, hate being considered acceptable again, people trying to drag religion even further into politics where it has no place, inadequate gun control, Florida teaching that slavery was actually beneficial to the SLAVES, criminals trying to run for president or other government positions, underpaid teachers, prohibitively expensive healthcare, people STILL going hungry, housing costs skyrocketing, etc. And we’re supposed to be the greatest country in the world? What a load of BS.
@@mariekatherine5238
My paternal grandparents met at a Naval Base in Ogden, UT.
They spoke differently those days. With self respect and integrity!
I really like everything about that movie (even some of the science is outdated). Especially the positive vibe of „we show you how to improve“ instead of scolding and blaming. „Women, that’s how your body works and there’s nothing shameful about it.“, followed by details and facts.
Like those 1945 US basic uniforms, too. They‘d make great basics for work or office outfits today (the men one especially).
Shocking... "Diet, exercise, basic care." The straightforward message is still applicable.
They also stress rest which is something that most of us forget. Just as you say, "still applicable".
I wish I'd seen this film when I was a teenager. It would have answered so many questions.
Oops. 😁
@@richardaaronringquist3316 Why "oops"? :)
Can you elaborate?
It's nice to see the fighting ladies highlighted in this fascinating film.😊
Ngl I found this quite comforting lol - kind of wish life was still a bit like this...
Be honest. Who got permission from the War Department before viewing this?
😂😂😂😂
I did
They said no, so don't tell them I watch anyway
@cynthialynch9703 I wrote a letter asking for permission. Still waiting. 😆
@@colonelkurtz2269 🤣
I really like this straight forward, no nonsence film.... no embarasment or implication of 'shame' when you're having your period, for instance and an appropriate stress on looking healthy and being well turned out.
That’s the major malfunction with society in the US today. There is no straight forward, no nonsense common sense present in most people and it’s definitely not used in govt. And if it is present they repress it in lieu of ridiculous off the wall behavior & nonsensical irrational thinking & outbursts that gain them attention they desire also, many go through each day anticipating & looking for a reason to be “offended” by someone else’s actions or speech or thought wether they genuinely are or not to gain that attention. We are doomed
I don’t want the parachute packed by the woman having a bad day.
Better than the one PMS ing and packing them.
Exactly what I was thinking
why just women? you think men don’t have bad days or act stupid? well, have I got news for you, bucko
I love that they still used a soft-focus vignette for the athlete's foot shot. "Mr. Demille, I'm ready for my closeup!"
I thought this would be goofy and funny but it's really an excellent film with good advice that's easily applicable today.
Same, all the ones with the fellas show what kind of clowns we are, but I guess since in this era it was fairly new for women to be in the workforce, they probably kept it serious to let them know "We're treating you with dignity. Not lessers like the men would, we will talk to you with the same tone we would talk to our boss."
Never changes regarding the military--Take Care of your Feet
My husband's mom and his dad's two sisters served as officers in the Waves. I have the graduation booklet and it show the ladies doing exercises just like in this movie. Thanks for sharing this historical bit of what yhey must have gone through.
My grandma was a Wave, too! She and my Paw Paw met in the Navy, in Pensacola. I have all of her old pictures, too. Thank you for sharing this comment... it truly made my entire week!
I love this old school program.
Professional and mature not foolish or idiotic.
Checking the patient's throat with a military, right-angle flashlight. Now, that's Army!
Its shocking how fat we've become on average.
Corn syrup.
If you have cramps, try mild stretching exercises and work up to more vigorous. Sit-ups used to help me. For a menstrual migraine, try a strong cup of coffee. There’s something about the caffeine that reduces inflammation of the veins in the forehead. It’s good to hear in 1944 that tampons do not cause loss of virginity. Menopause was no big deal for me. I never had nervous fits or hot flashes. My periods slowly diminished until they just stopped around ages 56-57. They started the same way, gradually, first time at age 14 and were regular by 15. I’d occasionally get cramps on day two, and a headache in my 30’s and 40’s, both easily treatable.
I think by then women generally run out of eggs which is why they're most intense during the teen and young adult years, but get weaker as you get older. Ibuprophens work similarly, they seem to shut down nervous responses that allow the muscles to relax, enabling blood flow and reducing pressure. Once I realized how that works, my own headaches stopped being nearly as unbearable.
If only Endometriosis was somehow cured by better posture.
Agreed. I wonder if the existence of endometriosis was known yet in that time period, or if this is a recent discovery.
@@YouKnowMeDuh Its barely known now
Tell me about it. I needed a hysterectomy for adenomyosis (endo in which uterine lining buries in muscle). It was gruesome.
I just had the same thought. "No one should be absent because of menstruation...those cramps are just because you're constipated." Oh, brother...
Maybe you should hop in your time machine and go back 80 years and let them know everything we've learned since then so they can correct this. Or better yet, wait another 80 years for someone to come back in their time machine and tell you how wrong you are so you can correct your attitude, and then go back. But wait... then someone from 80 years in their future will come back and correct them, so they'll have to come back and correct you and you'll have to go back and correct them again with what you've just learned. But hold on... then someone from 80 years in THEIR future...
Or maybe just stop being so judgmental and realize everyone has always been doing the best they can with what they knew at the time. Sheesh.
My basic Army training taught me how to wipe my ass with just one sheet of TP. 😊
I wish I saw this video in 1971, when I needed it. I see the information so valid today....but I appreciated how much help this was to some brave and cool military women.
Badly needed today.
Funny that my rear-end made the same sound effects when I started gaining weight. 🤣
We need to start teaching this in public schools, starting aboutSophomore year!
My cramps were so bad I couldn’t stand straight up. I was miserable
relaxing is easy! look at this silly little kitten lol
That kitten could teach us a thing or two about relaxation. What a cute kitten. 🐱😌
I love how thy keep emphasizing how important it is to "look good."
Wtf ...no they don't
been healthy is equal to looking good and NOT viceversa!
"Because it's not how you feel, it's how you look. And you look mahhhhhvvveeeeelllloooouuusssss.--Fernando
Because the survival of women depended on whether or not they could get a husband. Which is why feminism was necessary.
It wasn't to promote being superficial..the video was centered around the relationship between health, strength, fitness, and longevity. When your muscles are worked out to their peak, your body will be in the best shape it can be..hence..giving you the longest lasting strength you're capable of. The easiest way to gauge when your muscles had reached the service's expectations was when you looked good in the mirror. Coming from somebody who dropped 65 lbs in one summer...i say looks are important. Ever since I lost it I've felt better and remained healthier. That was 30 years ago..and I've maintained my weight ever since. The majority of those who get offended when you say "looks are important" only do so because it's the easiest way to deny their responsibility for getting themselves there to begin with, and it serves the same purpose as covering their ears and yelling loudly when people try to say human bodies look better when they are in good shape rather than when their shape gets neglected. To those who have REAL medical CONDITIONS..and I mean REAL...my statements don't include you. All you other women who've let yourselves go..get off your fat assess today and start working to look better for your men...they deserve it! 🍺🍻
Did you get the permission of the War Department (0:04) to release this film to the public??
First rate, just superb! Fascinating, highly informative, even entertaining without being hokey. The military knew what their most precious assets were, their own women and men, and they strived to keep their GI’s healthy and happy.
This is what is missing from the World. Healthy people!
Thanks very much for this excellent film!!
Some good advice here for guys also. Not everything but some.
The guy drawing where blush goes.... He makes the most perfect circles! Mine are never that symmetrical haha
Boy if they showed this in school a lot of offense would be taken today
Everything is so sugarcoated when it comes to health, all pushing towards an unrealistic standard that frankly isn't all that appealing anyway. Even if some of the things said in the video may be outdated, nothing in this video was particularly "Wrong" as the underlying point is "eat well, exercise, rest, and take care of yourself." Something no one knows how to do now a days.
Miss Helen Matthews, the alleged University expert on women's physical health, is actually movie and later TV character actress Sara Haden. So much for authenticity.
The corresponding movie for men described the risk of sexually transmitted diseases without shaming, and simple precautions for avoiding them (and unwanted pregnancy). Baptist churches howled -particularly the Southern Baptist Church, but more men were taken out of the fight by STD’s then from combat. This couldn’t continue, so the distribution of and how to use condoms was stressed. Distribution of condoms was mandatory. Public Health reduced dramatically STD’s and they were (and continue to be) charted as UTI-Urinary Tract Infections, no disciplinary action or guilt resulted. . It further reduced unwanted pregnancies.
Exactly!
Sara Haden , best known as Andy Hardy's Aunt Polly in vintage movies .
Aunt Millie, not Aunt Polly.
26:49 “Men are simple creatures”? Me no understand! Me angry now! Me bash head into wall now!!
Great music. Great band
Why are only women instructed to wear makeup? Where is the men's makeup tutorial? 💄
Interesting that they're so frank about menstrual matters (to a degree you'd never find in a civilian video in that era}, but won't actually use the word 'constipation.'
Yes they do. Check around 15:53 for one example. They explicitly mention constipation at least a couple times when advising about menstrual cramps and function.
It's right before she says "abDOmen" which has nothing to do with anything other than it's quaint and funny
I called for permission 😂
They said no 😂
I love the old war office films 🙏🇬🇧
OH...I thought this would be a VD vilm.
I'm not so sure if the body standards can hold up today...
4:54 LOL the silly little kitten
What a cutie 🐱
The silly little 😸 is adorable. I 💘 her.
Even the feline was a female so it stayed on topic!
I feel women were really attractive back in the day, not that they aren't today.
As a whole they were but it was how they dressed and acted in public.. always dresses and hair done up. No vulgarity always respectful
@@martywatts7274Yeah, painting up everyday for everyone’s entertainment isn’t really a woman’s goal in life Marty. Maybe let them be themselves.
Standards do vary... Though I'm a flower guy with a computer box for a head. I like the strong, amazonian, warrior type with wild hair personally, but the brits got here before the Africans and the rest is history....
Tattoos, piercings and blue hair are disgusting
This Pictorial Service is surprisingly straightforward and still relevant for the knowing ones!
Imagine the government telling us to avoid all that "patent medicine?"
omg the curly shingle hairstyle is so cute
For something made in the 40's this was very modern and straightforward and no men! It was all women doctors
No...this video fat-shames and I am triggered.
@@leojanuszewski1019 again it was made in the forties. There's going to be fat shaming😒
this video is a gem. so much to say about this. its strange to consider why grown adult women would need government or military instruction regarding their own menstrual cycles but its also strange to consider how women of the 1940s were practically second-class citizens living in a mans world and were not common among the civilian workforce yet alone an organized military. perhaps what is most strange is to consider viewing this video as a man from this era. the feelings it would conjure or produce
No average American woman looked like Rita Hayworth & Betty Grable back then.
Hollywood back then really liked to make it seem like EVERYONE in america was a square cut guy and a poster model girl. A small section of a small city that was one of the few places where people would regularly be filmed and spread around. I think the 80s was when we finally saw what people REALLY looked like in media and things got a lot more chill since then. No more sticks.
But I don’t want to look like the Goddess of Cyrene! She has stumps for arms and no head!
I've got full permission from the war department
And of course, we live in America, where not everyone can take sick days or they’ll lose their job(s).
Even given the option we just refuse to cause what counts as "sick"? Most companies are moving to "unlimited PTO" for that reason. No one wants to take time of unless they're forced to. (and believe me, I've had at least 3 bosses and HR force me to take a sick day because I sneezed once. My boss was like "Have you taken a day off since you started?" I was like "Uh... I think once for an appointment...?" and he was like "Go home.") so they are getting better with that.
❤❤❤спасибо🙏💕 привет из Сибири❤
That was Awsome 👍🏾
“The curse” ☹️
Love it
At 5:34 is a very young Audrey Meadows taking a break from typing.
That's not Audrey Meadows.
Smarter people back then. I love their ideals.
“I love their ideals”
Their ideals prevented them from putting any women of color in their film.
FYI, If people were smarter back then, they wouldn’t need this video explaining that it’s necessary to bathe everyday.
Smarter? Yeah, no. Time period has nothing to do with it. We do have better nutrition, air, water, and education now if you can get it though.
The paper fortune throwing mad shade!!
12:30 was that laxatives or?? Idk what was going on here.
You should pay attention & take that advice, Samantha's mom, Endora, (Agness Moorhead), knows what of she speaks! 😃
that's Sara Haden, Andy Hardy's Aunt Millie
@@HYPNOTOAD291 Thank you. I could not figure out who the narrator was,
I like the look of the slim girls, going to exercise more here.
6:43 seems to have the predecessor of the burpee. If only those instructors knew what they would start.
IKR? Those things are hell. Good workout, though.
@@SewardWriter It's when you start sweating and your muscles start to feel tired that you start the count. XD
The government doing what the government does best: Managing every tiny aspect of one’s life. A work in progress 90 years later.
Lol..."men are simple creatures"....it's so true. Err, i mean that i am offended.
In perfect physical shape? Why, she has no arms or head!
@Michael Lane It was a joke! I guess it went over your head. You have one, right?
There's a bar in Columbus,Ohio called "the Silent Woman." Out in front, there's a big sign probably from the 50's or 60's of a housewife holding a roller with no head.
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All those lovely hair rolls
Excellent!!!!!!
How to defeat Hitler......and get a man!
@4:32 she can’t go to sleep because there’s a woman shining a flashlight in her eyes !
Oh good grief...where is the explanation about cramps from endometriosis? I'm guessing these women were just told to sit up straight, eat more fiber and get back to work. 😣
We could use this type of discipline in todays world
It's still there in the military...in fact the military is even more disciplined now than it was at that time. Sure there are a lot of youths who don't seem like they would make it, but given the volunteer nature and the fact that many people I work with on a daily basis are military and are some of the nicest people I've ever met, it's definitely a lot better. Course the population is also 5x bigger so we're seeing a LOT more idiots with a voice in social media lately.....unfortunately. (the people who complain about the removal of the shark attack as "being too soft" should never have been allowed to serve. I don't need camy heads thinking they can order ME around because they got beaten. That's not discipline, that's BULLYING. but fortunately, I never had issues with anyone who served that I met. Very fantastic people.)
32:05 "One of those thick, Ubangi mouths" holy shit, lol :O :O
This will be the next fad for the lip filler brigade….some of them are getting that way!
@@aprilapril2 I think OP was bringing race into it.
@@marine4lyfe85because it IS (was) incredibly racist. Yikes, try to follow along on the simple stuff jarhead.
Yeah, I cringed when I heard that. Yikes.
And Fu Manchu talons 😬
Did not expect the blister part
Boy this could use some advice to today flock of large people in today's female and male in USA and elsewhere
Got to watch those calories, even back then.
26:45 "Yes men are simple creatures." lol We are.
Yes we are! lol.
Are women more complex? Don't think so. They are simple as we are, but now they think they are better. Feminism and modern way of life killed the importance of family, being single (...) is a chic now. Maybe at 50 people realise they fucked up their life.
I'm simple but I'm female. We do exist :)
I love that! XD
@@cheryldahl9192 HORAY!!--AN HONEST WOMAN!!!!!!
Thank you!
07:20 "One of those attractive from the neck up girls." lol
It like when we say “ you have a pretty face but you should lose weight” to pretty fat chicks
I believe she said, "pretty from the waist up." Women back then packed weight at the hips and buttocks. Nowadays, the fat goes all the way up to the neck.
They should have shown this during WAC Basic Training in 1974!! Not just "get fit" but the reasons to do the work
Monthly checkups? Wow
Yes, basic facts that all still apply nearly 80 years later, and presented in a grown up manner. I guess they still go over this stuff in high school health class, but I don't know. Girls should watch it tho (and boys the men's version).
And I love the Transatlantic accent of our presenter, that was popular then!
And of course, the ladies get to have a little dig at us guys lol. 26:43.
Venus of Cyrene!!
Remember to wrap and don’t get the clap.
I kept fit by starching my PT skirt until it stood by itself on the floor and polishing God's aisle with kotex.
My body is exactly like The Venus of Cyrene but people call me fat :P
Kaveri Gojare you probably are fat. Most women& men today are. I’m glad my “time “ was back in the 80s when women didn’t celebrate being a tattooed up obese hag. Oh well, the Mexican guys are having the time of their lives with all the big girls. It’s so funny to see all the little dried up Mexican dudes with the albino whales in Walmart.😍😍😍😂
@Gayle Elizabeth bla bla bla!!! listen to Miss Matthews and STOP complaining!!
Yeah, heroin chic did no favours for anyone.
4:37 Started to sound like a whole different kind of film...
I really don’t think anyone actually brushes their teeth “up and down”. 😳
I do! lol.