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Filmstrip: "Rx: Not for Kicks" (1968)

1968 · Short film · 10 min

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SOUND FILMSTRIP IS AN AT-RISK MEDIA FORMAT. The media format is largely forgotten and very endangered. Don't know what a filmstrip is? COPYRIGHT AND TAKEDOWN REQUESTS. If you hold rights to any material in this archive and wish to discuss its removal, please contact Uncommon Ephemera directly before filing a takedown request with any platform. A takedown removes material immediately and without discussion, and may count as a strike against the Uncommon Ephemera account. Platforms respond to accumulated strikes by removing the account entirely, which would result in the permanent loss of thousands of pieces of historically significant preserved media that have nothing to do with the material in dispute. This is a sound filmstrip that has been fully restored into the included video which properly simulates how it would have been presented originally. PART OF A SET. This filmstrip is part of the set Drugs in Our Society. ORIGINAL SCANS AND AUDIO INGEST INCLUDED. The original frame scans and audio capture are included in this archive. STAY IN TOUCH. NOTES Q*ED Productions is nowhere near done being weird in their 1968 series Drugs in our Society. Publisher Cathedral Films, primarily a producer of live-action Bible story films and filmstrips, was well out of their league with an anti-drug program, and it shows. The first filmstrip in the series showed a 12-year-old boy smoking a cigarette against a garbage can; the second depicted a man pounding bottles of Heineken until he…

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Running time
10 minutes
Language
English
Collection
Ephemeral Films

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