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The Black Stork, also known as Are You Fit To Marry?, is a 1916 American feature film and dramatization of the Bollinger incident, a national scandal where a hospital chief of staff, Harry J. Haiselden, advised Anna Bollinger and her husband against a surgery that would have saved their deformed child on eugenic grounds. The film depicts Haiselden's fictionalized story of a woman who has a nightmare of a severely disabled child being a menace to society. Once awoken from the nightmare, she visits a doctor and realizes all was fine with her child. The film warns teenagers of the dangers of sexual promiscuity and race mixing, as these actions were believed to be the cause of disabilities in children at the time.