Uncommon Ephemera

@uncommonephemera
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As far as I can tell, I'm the only person on earth preserving filmstrips. Eastmancolor film is my arch-enemy. #ActuallyAutistic
Websitehttps://www.uncommonephemera.org

Uploaded to the Internet Archive: This 1950 hand-illustrated #filmstrip taught young students about Columbus's voyage to the new world. Part of the #SethKoehlerCollection.

https://archive.org/details/uncommon-ephemera-filmstrip-celebrating-columbus-day-second-revised-edition-curriculum-films-inc-195

I unapologetically have the sense of humor of an eight-year-old. It comes in handy sometimes, like last night on "Is This Anything? when this guy on a government safety #VHS tape pauses awkwardly. Watch the whole show on Patreon now:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/131153368

Uploaded to the Internet Archive: This 1960 Eye Gate #filmstrip is a biography of Benjamin Harrison and William McKinley, the 23rd and 25th Presidents of the United States.

https://archive.org/details/uncommon-ephemera-filmstrip-130-b-benjamin-harrison-william-mckinley-eye-gate-house

LIVE NOW: Looking for endangered and #lostmedia on #VHS tapes to safeguard at the Internet Archive. IS THIS ANYTHING? is live on Twitch now.

https://twitch.tv/uncommonephemera

LIVE AT 7PM: What's on these #VHS tapes? Are there commercials? Rare media? Endangered or #lostmedia we can safeguard at the Internet Archive? There's only one way to find out. IS THIS ANYTHING? airs tonight at 7PM on Twitch.

https://twitch.tv/uncommonephemera

Patreon supporters just got Early Access to a low-budget 1974 #filmstrip where the lymph - a liquid in your body that creates white blood cells - talks to you about what it does. I know. I'm weirded out too.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/130999960

Scanning more #filmstrips today! Watch how these artifacts get digitized - and how slowly, due to not having the money for better equipment - so we can safeguard them at the Internet Archive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjrNZ7-osto

Wow. It's really that bad, isn't it.

NEWLY RESTORED AT THE INTERNET ARCHIVE: This dumpy-but-adorable 1974 #filmstrip introduces you to your kidneys, who proceed to tell you how they work.

Watch now: https://archive.org/details/uncommon-ephemera-filmstrip-b557-e-the-kidney-eye-gate-house-1974

Saving #filmstrips means scanning filmstrips, no matter how long it takes. You can watch new frames being digitized on YouTube right now. When it's done I'll upload them to the @internetarchive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjrNZ7-osto