https://teloche.pantagruweb.club/videos/watch/531bb650-c47d-416b-981f-9b49418d4dca SOUND FILMSTRIP IS AN AT-RISK MEDIA FORMAT. I am the only person on earth preserving American filmstrips. The media format is largely forgotten and very endangered. If you have any American filmstrips, or can rescue any filmstrips from a school, college, business, industry, or elsewhere, please contact me immediately at uncommon.ephemera@gmail.com. Don't know what a filmstrip is? Read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filmstrip I AM AN INDEPENDENT MEDIA PRESERVATIONIST. If you enjoy my work please consider making a donation toward my operating expenses. Visit https://uncommonephemera.org/donate for links to Patreon, GoFundMe, and more. FULLY RESTORED. 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 SERIES. This filmstrip was part of the series How You Get VD. ORIGINAL SCANS AND AUDIO INGEST INCLUDED. The original frame scans and audio capture are included in this archive. STAY IN TOUCH. Join my Discord for announcements on new releases and live streams, discussion with other people interested in media preservation, or if you can help in any way. For more information about Uncommon Ephemera, filmstrips, my media preservation processes, file specifications, contact information, and attribution information, please see the included “Read Me.txt” file. NOTES Here at Uncommon Ephemera, we’re painfully aware that we’re the only place on earth preserving filmstrip media. Much of the damage from this oversight in an otherwise healthy global nostalgia fetish has been done, and this title is a stark reminder of how few of the really interesting titles are left. Consider that until recently (depending on how constantly-offended your friends are), history and science didn't change. It was pretty much agreed-upon who won or lost a war, what certain ethnic groups were called, or whether "Attack Helicopter" was a gender. And therefore, educational filmstrips about history and science outlived the usefulness of those on other topics, and they survived much longer in school media libraries and in the collections of homeschoolers. Everything else, however, went straight in the trash the second they were obsolete. Take the clumsily-titled How To Get Gonorrhea, as if it’s a tutorial on how to contract the infection, for instance. It’s from a 1974 collection by Sunburst Communications called How You Get VD, a common abbreviation at the time for "venereal disease." Once they stopped calling them “venereal diseases” and started calling them “sexually-transmitted diseases,” these filmstrips were out-of-date; a condition which does not so easily besiege a presentation on the Civil War, for example, and into the trash most of them went. Sex education, social sciences, and home economics titles are similarly becoming challenging to find, let alone preserve. And thus, we are robbed of uncomfortable gems like How To Get Gonorrhea. Already a problematic topic to broach with teens whose comedic bread and butter is dick and fart jokes, it is additionally burdened with the fashions, artwork, music, and creepy mustaches that plagued America in the 1970s. Gonorrhea is depicted as a chicken-footed dragon whose long, phallic nose drips a liquid one desperately hopes is not pus; various and sundry slang terms for the infection are represented as heads of a hydra (though this author is not grateful to learn one of them is “morning drip”); a small toilet is held contemplatively by something that looks like it lives in Frasier Crane’s African erotic art collection. Our archetypal potentially-infected couple is white and heterosexual enough; and the young woman still looks like she’d be right at home in an Instagram selfie, old-film filter pre-applied. But the guy just looks seedy with his sunken eyes, shoulder-length mop, and pre-teen-esque crustache. Certainly no one you’d ever get gonorrhea from, because you’d be so busy never having sex with him, ever. Punctuating the entire thing is a synth-funk soundtrack that sits uncomfortably somewhere between gentrified urban elevator music and those “deep cuts from the African diaspora” you only ever hear rich white college radio DJs talk about. While this isn’t the best filmstrip on the subject (the long-lost Guidance Associates classic Venereal Disease: Who, Me? which was once in this author’s personal collection but lost before the ability to preserve it, is), it is, perhaps, the only one left. And thus the viewer must endeavor to keep in mind that no, this was not the worst it got; not by a long shot. And, perhaps, the viewer might get a glimpse into why it’s so important to find, rescue, and preserve these gems, precisely because they are not gems, and perhaps only so we can laugh at them. How to Get Gonorrhea is part one of the series How You Get VD published by Sunburst Communications in 1974, and its catalog number was 208-1. Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:01:19 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://teloche.pantagruweb.club https://teloche.pantagruweb.club/lazy-static/avatars/33c5ff83-b4f1-484b-bba8-1e2d7568c905.png https://teloche.pantagruweb.club/videos/watch/531bb650-c47d-416b-981f-9b49418d4dca All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://teloche.pantagruweb.club/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.