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Filmstrip: "Walter Meets Quickwick" (1973)

1973 · 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 A Young People's Tour of the Library. ORIGINAL SCANS AND AUDIO INGEST INCLUDED. The original frame scans and audio capture are included in this archive. STAY IN TOUCH. NOTES Spoken Arts, Inc., founded in 1956, was primarily a record company that sought to create an audio library of poets and writers reading their own works. Eventually featuring recordings of Gertrude Stein, William Butler Yeats, W. H. Auden, and many more, they claimed to be the first to record the spoken word; being in the recording industry, one would think someone at the office might have heard of Thomas Edison.…

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Running time
10 minutes
Language
English
Collection
Ephemeral Films

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