In buy viagra fed ex 1973 the National Naval Medical Center in Maryland commissioned the Pennsylvania-based Animation Arts Associates Inc. to produce a 20 minute animated short film about the dangers of venereal disease. The result: The Return of Count Spirochete, an ambitious, hilarious and sometimes shocking dramatization of what happens when a person contracts syphilis.

The film begins at the Communicable Disease of the Year Awards, where the Grim Reaper is poised to present the award to one of the era’s most threatening viruses – contestants include Smallpox, Diptheria, Tuberculosis and the common cold, as well as our pal Syphilis (represented as the sleazy vampire Count Spirochete) – and it is determined that while many of these other diseases have “had their day”, syphilis is alive and well, flourishing in an era of free love and unprotected sex. While the other diseases object to being passed over, The Reaper cialis compare levitra viagra illustrates through various vignettes how syphilis works and why it is such a serious health concern. With charming rudimentary 2D animation reminiscent of monster cereal commercials and ABC’s then-nascent Schoolhouse Rock series, a pulsing synthesizer score, and a smart, droll script, The Return of Count Spirochete is a triumph of the educational film format.

Little information is available about Animation Arts Associates, or the crew of the film – credits are limited to storyboard artist Ken Duggan and the scriptwriter Don Peterson, the latter of whom had made a handful of cautionary educational shorts before this, including A Moveable Feast (1970), an anti-drug film featuring Robert Mitchum as the narrator, and Flowers of Darkness (1972) about opium abuse, narrated by Paul Newman, both produced by George Washington University’s Documentary Center and their Department of Medical and Public Affairs, in cooperation with various governmental medical authorities (although Flowers of Darkness got a brief theatrical run). Unfortunately this lack of proper accreditation was symptomatic of the time (stay tuned for a future article on uncredited designers of the board game explosion), although it is surprising that neither a director nor an animator are credited. If anyone has any info about Animation Arts Associates or the crew of Count Spirochete, please let us Mark, has you ordered this medicine? Do you satisfied? Propecia for women hair loss, our Online Canadian Pharmacy is verified by Pharmacy Checker. know!

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– Kier-La Janisse (Thanks to Frank Fingers for the introduction to Count Spirochete!)

About the author:

Kier-La Janisse

Kier-La Janisse is a film writer, buy cialis pill publisher, producer, acquisitions executive for Severin Films and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University. She is the author of Cockfight: A Fable of Failure (2024), House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films (2012/2022) and A Violent Professional: The Films of Luciano Rossi (2007) and has been an editor on numerous books levitra schweiz including Warped & Faded: Weird Wednesday and the Birth of the American Genre Film Archive (2021) and Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s (2015). She wrote, directed and produced the award-winning documentary Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021), viagra from the usa and produced the acclaimed blu-ray box sets All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror (2021) and The Sensual World of Black Emanuelle (2023).