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Filmstrip: "J.B. Toots His Horn" (1973)

1973 · Short film · 16 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. ORIGINAL SCANS AND AUDIO INGEST INCLUDED. The original frame scans and audio capture are included in this archive. STAY IN TOUCH. NOTES Elba Systems was a company that provided multimedia products for the financial services industry. They created company-agnostic audiovisual materials that could be used by any company, leading to a notable visual of the products shown in their films being labeled, for instance, "Life Insurance Company," instead of a particular company name. Their products were intended to be used with their custom briefcases, which housed an automatic-advance filmstrip projector, which projected onto a translucent…

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Running time
16 minutes
Language
English
Collection
Ephemeral Films

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