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Uncommon Ephemera
Профиль VivelyCitizen archivist. The only person on earth preserving filmstrips. Lost Media hunter. Don't talk to me about politics.
Schools are throwing away millions of old educational filmstrips. Thankfully, one heroic archivist rescued this masterpiece from oblivion. (Yes, that's gonorrhea depicted as a dragon.) Read about @uncommonephemera.org's work & see more filmstrips: www.popculturalprecursors.com/p/can-this-f...
“Zoinks, I’ve got zits!” Velma teaches Shaggy about skincare in the 1980 educational filmstrip “The Scooby-Doo Gang in ’Skin Deep’ Part 1: What is Acne?”]. See more wacky filmstrips and read about the archivist trying to save this forgotten medium: www.popculturalprecursors.com/p/can-this-f...
The audio is gone forever. But these mind-bending illustrations survive from the educational filmstrip “Drug Abuse: Glue-Sniffing and Pills” (1968). It's just one example of over 1,300 filmstrips preserved by @uncommonephemera.org. Read more here: www.popculturalprecursors.com/p/can-this-f...
Educational filmstrips were weirder than you remember: *Gonorrhea dragons *Scooby-Doo explaining acne *Christian mime ministries *Superheroes teaching etiquette I profiled @uncommonephemera.org who's preserved 1,300+ examples of this vanishing medium www.popculturalprecursors.com/p/can-this-f...