Dance Little Children

DANCE LITTLE CHILDREN (1961, sound, 25 min, color, 16mm)SPONSOR: Kansas State Board of Health. PRODUCTION CO.: Centron Productions. DIRECTOR: Harold “Herk”Harvey. WRITER: Margaret Carlile Travis. Resources: Copyright not registered; EFL, 765; Sex Ed, 71–72, 132–33; Mental Hygiene, 132–33. Holdings: MacDonald, UKansas.State-funded film produced to encourage the prevention of venereal disease. Dance LittleChildren tells the story of a syphilis outbreak among teenagers in a Kansas town. Epidemiologists and public health investigators eventually track down the cause of the disease. More perceptive and balanced than most films about VD, this Centron production contextualizes the problem by exploring the peer pressures faced by teenagers and the sexualized culture of the period. NOTE: Shot in Lawrence, Kansas, Dance Little Children is a sequel to another state government film, The Innocent Party. Produced in Eastmancolor.