https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/85b904e8-6f88-4346-9086-8c6279ed36f9 Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddem5RlB3bQe99wyY49g0g/join Help us preserve, scan and post more rare and endangered films! Join us on Patreon. Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com The Addiction Research Foundation of Ontario (0:21) presents: “The Curious Habits of Man” (0:15). Directed by Robert Barclay, this somewhat obtuse 1968 film compares the unseemly behavior of drinking and smoking humans to behaviour exhibited by wild animals. Ice cubes dropping into a glass of alcohol (0:30). It’s a cocktail party. Jay, our sober protagonist, takes soft drinks (0:37), before mingling with other guests (0:45). More guests (1:09); Jay greets them. All are holding alcoholic drinks (1:13). A short drink poured over ice (1:24). A man laughs, saying “you don’t want to pass out like you had the last time, hey?” Jay turns on an old television set by turning a knob (1:38). A red bird chirps as Jay settles down into a floral-print sofa, soda bottle in hand (1:43). On the screen, a loon with intense-red eyes gives a loud, wavering tremolo (2:00). Somewhere behind Jay a woman starts to cackle (2:03). Jay notes the similarity (2:09). She shrieks in laughter with her drink in her hand (2:17), in competition with the loon (2:27). A man joins Jay (2:34) to watch the show, “Audubon Wildlife Theatre”. A black bird (2:46) flaps its wings and caws. A man laughs with a bellow, flapping his hands (2:55). “There’s a lot of wildlife” (3:01). From 3:03, different partygoers eating (3:03); drinking (3:09); smoking (3:11); then pouring and more drinking (3:15). An onscreen wolf howls (3:24); a man looks about (3:26), a wolfish look in his eyes (3:34). He spots his prey: a woman in a pink dress with a keyhole cutout exposing her cleavage (3:38). The scene is punctuated with footage of a male ruffed grouse drumming his wings, puffing out his chest. Then more drinking, kissing, cackling (3:52). Jay squirms as Pink-dress Lady approaches (4:09). The ruffed grouse (4:26) beats its wings again. Jay gets another drink from the fridge (4:45): a Coke (4:58). His friend guzzles down a frothy alcoholic drink (4:59), like a hippopotamus slurping muddy river water. A dancing couple (5:18) is compared to a pair of giraffes, flailing their heads around. A woman pops her bubblegum (5:40), like a male frog calling for a mate (5:46). Another lady grooms herself (5:53), like a cheetah grooming its paw (5:56). More scenes from the party: black pumps abandoned on the dance floor (6:08); dancing feet (6:09); musicians (6:12); the Cheetah woman plays with the jaw of a taxidermied animal (6:15); dancing with drinks and cigarettes (6:20). At 6:24, Jay’s Coke bottle can clearly be seen. Musicians play in the background (6:36). Jay watches this all, unimpressed (6:48). The people sing in drunken French — Quebecois children’s song “Alouette” (6:56). A cigarette squashed into a wine glass (7:29). From 7:40, all the drunken lips singing “OOOOOHHHHH” — cut to wolves howling (7:49), a raven cawing (7:53); a zebra braying (7:55), a bird screaming (7:58), more wolves howling (7:59), and back to wild humans singing (8:04). A woman checks Jay’s watch (8:12). A man shoves chips in his mouth, double-chin wobbling (8:25). A noisy bird is handfed (8:35). Jay is bored (9:21); a musician leaves. It is getting late. 9:34 Wolf-eyes dances with Pink-dress Lady (9:34). Her husband notices when Wolf-eyes reaches his hand down toward her buttocks (10:00). A rhinoceros represents the husband’s territorial aggression (10:06). Husband decides to confront the man (10:18). Like a charging rhino bull (10:22), he runs past Jay towards the pair (10:26). A kissing couple (10:52); a pair of cheetahs (10:59). A sleeping man, hiccuping loudly (11:06); a toad (11:11); a yawning woman (11:15); a cheetah (11:18). Jay puts his empty bottle down, and leaves (11:23). Outside (11:45); the sound of insects and birds. An owl sits silent and calm (11:57). Jay smiles, recognizing the serene, unperturbed bird, then walks off. End credits (12:19). Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. For almost two decades, we've worked to collect, scan and preserve the world as it was captured on 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have endangered films you'd like to have scanned, or wish to donate celluloid to Periscope Film so that we can share them with the world, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the weblink below. 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