Summary

Description	This dental education film for children offers much entertainment and little instruction. In live action, a friendly dentist seats four children in his waiting room and begins to tell them a story about a city defended by beautiful white walls that look like their own teeth. The footage then shifts to animation. The white walls are guarded by an engaging, but rather careless and sleepy watchman named Winky. Winky falls asleep on the job as the "bad uns," dark devilish-looking blobs, storm the walls, cut into its surfaces with picks, catapults, mallets, shovels, dynamite, and battering rams. The "bad uns" sing merrily about how bad they are. The destruction they cause is so extensive that the part of the wall Winky is sleeping on collapses, and he drops down into the internal regions where the "bad uns" are at work. He races to the doors of a castle and calls out the "good uns," who rush to the defense of the walls. The "good uns" are benign-looking orange blobs. They ride whit
Source	collections.nlm.nih.gov
Author	Gruebbel, Allen O., Hugh Harman Productions., Tennessee. Department of Public Health., United States. Public Health Service.

Licensing

Public Domain

Attribution: Gruebbel, Allen O., Hugh Harman Productions., Tennessee. Department of Public Health., United States. Public Health Service.