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Filmstrip: "How To Be A Good Landlord To Your Teeth" (1973)

1973 · 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 You know how this preservationist loves a good conflict of interest. Getting children to brush their teeth is an age-old challenge. Once solely the domain of parents, eventually the responsibility mutated to schools and public awareness campaigns in media. It certainly didn't hurt that the FCC, who oversaw the over-the-air broadcast of Saturday morning cartoons when we were kids, required stations to broadcast a certain amount of programming in the public interest alongside, say, DuckTales.…

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Running time
8 minutes
Language
English
Collection
Ephemeral Films

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