The choice is ours.

Date:
c.1970
  • Film

About this work

Description

This film begins by showing Filippino women in labour in an over-crowded delivery room where newborns have to share tiny plastic cots immediately after birth. Illustrated by wonderful footage of the Philippines in the early 1970s we are told about the rise in population in the Philippines and how this is bringing about migration to the cities, unemployment, health problems and general poverty. Ruben Apelo, President of the Family Planning Association of the Philippines talks about how difficult it is to implement a working contraceptive policy given the strong Catholic faith of the republic. The film ends with a speech by His Excellancy Ferdinand E. Marcos, President of the Republic of the Philippines, who advocates population control and the work of the Family Planning Association.

Publication/Creation

A Vision Associates Production, c.1970.

Physical description

1 film reel (18 min.) : sound, color, 16 mm

Terms of use

Open with advisory.

Copyright note

The Family Planning Organization of the Philippines and International Planned Parenthood Foundation

Type/Technique

Languages

Where to find it

  • LocationStatusAccess
    Closed stores
    3389F
    By appointmentManual request

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