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Untitled: Baby Clinic

Ephemeral film · 9 min

Details

Running time
9 minutes
Collection
Prelinger Archives

Reviews on the Internet Archive

★★★ · Silent Film of Young Kiddie Clinic · JayKay49 · 2013-01-13

Apparently still the 1920's (or very early 30's at the latest) as the women all have their hair bobbed. Shows some kind of community clinic - not attended by poor people necessarily. Kids getting weighed and their height checked every 5 minutes. Also ends with kids getting vaccinated - but oddly, none of them screaming bloody murder. Why is it when you take a little boy's clothes off their attention right away goes to that "toy" "down there?" Watch the one with the classic bowl-on-the-head haircut near the beginning when they put him on the scale. Film shows clothing hairstyles and…