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Uses a story about children who are rescued from accidents at home to create an awareness of home safety and provides examples for accident prevention.

This film is available on the When Mascots Attack DVD-R




Depicts the adventures of two nine-year-old girls who have invented a secret game of touching fur coats without the wearer realizing it. Follows them as they inadvertently become trapped in the vault of a fur store. Describes their surprise when the vault door opens, two thieves appear and the girls manage to trap them and become heroines. Great fetish primer.

This film is available on Those Naughty Girls DVD-R


Here’s how I do it (roughly based on the distributed proofreaders website).

I open up the PDF and text document. I arrange the PDF so I can only see one column of text. I then position the text document next to the PDF. I zoom into the PDF so that the text on the PDF lines up with the text in the text document. I try to limit my view of the documents to about 30 lines. I found that if I had too much text, my eyes would spend too much time wandering to find the next line.


Common errors to look out for:

1) The copyright symbol ‘©’ needs to pasted back into its appropriate place. The OCR program either ignores the symbol or makes a wrong guess about what the character is. With single film entries, the copyright symbol will before the producer (production company) name. With episodes in a series, the symbol will be before the date.

2) Check the date. It should be in the format DateMonthYear. The Date and Year are numerical. The Month is a three letter abbreviation. There are no spaces between date, month or year. 29Jun59 and 13Oct66 are examples. Be aware that the OCR program often will confuse numbers and letters.

2) Check the registraion number. It should be in the format RN00000. RN is a two-letter registration code (LP, MP, MU, etc). The number is generally five digits. Occasionally, the number is four digits. There is no space between the registration code and number. LP29010 and MU7703 are examples. Be aware that the OCR program often will confuse numbers and letters.

2) Fix line spacing. I’ve been leaving a line between film entries. With series or episodes, I don’t put a line break between each episodes.

3) ‘See’ is listed below its entry. The OCR program occasionally subdivides a column into two columns and places “See” or an episode number below the entry.
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Short vignette films designed to provoke discussion with groups of kids, drivers and cops. Films include – Shoot/Don’t Shoot, Working With Older People, Behind the Wheel, What If?, The Grapevine, Library Science Trigger Films and Why Doesn’t Cathy Eat Breakfast?

8:00pm, Friday, June 29th Center for Documentary Studies 1317 W. Pettigrew Street, Durham NC

In a departure from their regular diet of spaghettiOs and cherry-flavored Pop Tarts, the A/V Geeks join forces with the Dai Due Supper Club to present an evening of fine dining and educational films. The four course meal features fresh, locally grown, organic food prepared by the chefs of Dai Due. The course-specific films will be drawn from the stale, overprocessed A/V Geeks film archive. $50 per person. Only a couple of seats are left! Visit http://www.daidueaustin.com to reserve a seat.

7pm, June 21st, 2007 Rain Lily Farm, 912 Shady Ln, Austin, Texas 78702

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From The Archive

Live and Let Live (1947)

Set in a toy tabletop town, this film uses brightly colored model cars and trucks to demonstrate a range of driving safety scenarios. The number of near-misses and accidents would make for an extremely violent film if real vehicles and people were used, but the models keep the feeling of mayhem at a distance. An unusual example of a rich tradition within the safety film genre: the tabletop model.

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Keeping Your Job Is Work (Dibie-Dash Productions, 1971)


Emphasizes the importance of meeting the responsibilities of a job. Presents several job situations, pointing out the need for reliability, dependability, promptness, cooperation and initiative from an employee.

This film is available on the As the Office Turns 2 DVD-R


From The Archive

AV Geeks Greatest Hits

Some films from the AV Geeks archive that have really
catchy/annoying songs. Great to singalong! Films include: Fun With Lines,
Crash Bang Boom, Malakapaladoo Skip Two, Drugs Are Like That, Shake Hands with
Danger, Telezonia
and VD is for Everybody.

From The Archive

TV: A Welcome Guest In the House

The A/V Geeks present an evening of educational films about television and how we should watch it. Films include – Action and Violence, Television Serves Its Community, Basic Television Terms (featuring Leonard Nimoy), TV or Not TV, old TV Guide commercials and more.

From The Archive

Blackboard Bungle

An evening of
old school films about–interestingly enough–the hazards of going to school
in the 1960s and 70s. Films include: Our Obligation, Lunchroom Manners, How
Quiet Helps at School, And Then It Happened
and more!

From The Archive

Without A Leg To Stand On

Three films about people with physical handicaps. Steadfast Tin Soldier – the classic Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale. Gravity Is My Enemy – a quadriplegic artist talks about his work and his life. Boy On A Skateboard – a young boy with no legs copes with his life in a mill town.

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