Brainwash '72 [video]

Probably the strangest thing I've found on a video tape.  A quit-smoking "brainwashing" tape, my favourite bit is the whole long shot of a mysterious stranger walking through the desert only to reveal A •SPOILERS•.

Content warning: there's some footage of someone getting operated on.  It makes me feel all squooshy so I'm warning you.

This came to me on a Umatic tape with a McDonalds label on it, perhaps a franchisee somewhere was trying to stop his staff smoking. Anyway, enjoy.

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Process: Low Band NTSC Umatic videotape played on a Sony VP-7040, through a CYP Time Base Corrector into a Blackmagic Intensity Shuttle, recorded to ProRes, tidied up then bumped to MPEG-2 using Apple Compressor