“ TO YOUR HEALTH ” 1956 DANGERS OF ALCOHOL & ALCOHOLISM SCARE FILM BY PHILIP STAPP XD46324

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website This 1956 British Technicolor animated film directed by Philip Stapp and produced by Halas & Batchelor for the World Health Organization uses cartoons rendered in a mid century modern style to address the issue of alcoholism through metaphor, caricature, and abstraction (TRT: 10:17). Distributor title card: “This film has been provided as an educational service by the Michigan State Board of Alcoholism” Opening titles. “The World Health Organization Presents, To Your Health, Color by Technicolor, a film by Philip Stapp.” Credits continue: “Supervised by Professor E.M. Jellinek, Music by Matyas Seiber, Animation by Brian Borthwick and John Smith, a Halas and Batchelor Cartoon” (0:09). Animation begins: A starscape traces an outline of an international everyman, toasting a drink. A constellation of bottled drinks follows. “John” becomes tipsy and clumsy at a part, th