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Filmstrip: "Cigarette Smoking: Take It Or Leave It" (1974)

1974 · Short film · 8 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 Maybe the sentiments in this 1974 educational filmstrip from the American Cancer Society were at one time sincere and necessary, but perhaps no other subject has become as hackneyed as drug abuse education. Looking back, it seems that the argument was based on a few long-clichéd stereotypes: smokers had never cracked a science textbook or attended health class; they are all peer-pressuring bullies who want everyone they meet to smoke as if they got a commission; they were unaware the smoke from…

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Running time
8 minutes
Language
English
Collection
Ephemeral Films

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