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Home movie and industrial outtakes: 098669: Upjohn Company research

Ephemeral film ยท 40 min

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Contains graphic sequences of laboratory experimentation on live animals: chickens, rabbits, rats, horses, dog. Majority of the reel is raw footage filmed in the 1930s for Upjohn Company in Kalamazoo, Michigan, primarily in color, showing the company's scientific research operations, with labs, classrooms, instruction, experimentation, and animal husbandry. Intercut with the filmmaker's home movie sequences of fishing and poverty tourism in Texas and Florida.

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