The cheerful revolution
This film on family planning was shot in Thailand and shows a variety of Thai landscapes. The film discusses how family planning developed in Thailand, how successful it became, and how community development became intricately involved with family planning. Community-based family planning services, or CBFPS, provide vendors with contraceptives which are sold along with vegetables or other unrelated products. Advertising for family planning is everywhere including on the side of a water buffalo which says in Thai "I use a condom." There are voluntary sterilization services, including a tour bus which goes to factories where vasectomies are done cheaply and easily. People in the rural countryside are brought to Bangkok for sterilization and given a tour of the city including a visit to the sacred Temple of the Emerald Buddha. The film concentrates on the relationship between economic development and family planning. Condoms are handed out at a kick boxing bout
DVD Video, English, [1979]
George Washington University, Airlie, Va., [1979]