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Maybe it seemed like a good idea at the time.
What better way to teach kids the proper names for their private anatomy than through a song performed by a friendly man with a guitar? We may never know if children developed a greater understanding and respect for their bodies after watching that educational video, but one thing’s certain: it’s comic gold.
Finding one such video is a funny and fortunate incident; finding dozens takes an almost single-minded devotion and a “perverse love of things that are excruciating,” says Nick Prueher, co-curator of the Found Footage Festival, a traveling showcase of odd, stupid and “unintentionally hilarious” videos that Prueher and friend Joe Pickett have culled from thrift stores, rescued from trash bins and received from other analog archaeologists over the past couple of decades. …