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How to make your dreams of happiness come true.
Retro Rhetoric: Becoming More Becoming was produced for the 2008 TCF ShortDocs Challenge: Radio Ephemera.
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Sarah Boothroyd's audio work has been featured by broadcasters, festivals and galleries in over a dozen countries. Her work has won awards from the Third Coast International Audio Festival, New York Festivals, La Muse En Circuit, and the European Broadcasting Union. Her website is www.sarahboothroyd.com.
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Radio Ephemera challenged any/everyone to produce a short audio work inspired by two books from the Prelinger Library in San Francisco, and featuring the voice of a stranger.
Retro Rhetoric: Becoming More Becoming
Inspired by: Control of Body and Mind / The Facts of Life for Teenagers
Strangers: narrators from the following public domain instructional films available via the Prelinger Archives and the Internet Archive: Body Care and Grooming (1948); How to Be Well Groomed (1949); Speech: Platform, Posture and Appearance (1949); Molly Grows Up (1953); and Habit Patterns (1954)
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