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This is the preliminary printing for a mail art project that was projected to become a book dealing with short prose pieces about mail artists. The project did not come to fruition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Also designated one cent 169 that is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Also designated Objecta #3. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The letterto Marvin Sackner included in this book was written by Andrew Rippeon, its editor. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Also designated dbqp #108 that is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The other copies of this assembling belong to Geof Huth, Nancy Huth, Erin Huth, Timothy Huth, Ficus Strangulensis, and John M. Bennett. Three copies are still held by Geof Huth. The archival envelope that houses the pieces is numbered 255950. Geof Huth provides extensive documentation on this project which is reproduced as follows. FILM CLIPS # 4 A SELF-DESTRUCTING COMPILATION OF CULTURAL ICONOGRAPHY AND MAIL ART O + + + + + . + + + + + R THE ILLEIST'S FRAME OF REFERENCE ENTOMBED WHAT ABOUT THIS IS ABOUT A bagazine of mailart and the ephemeral evidence of the culture we burrow through, "Film Clips" gives us some idea of the changing ways of documenting the world over the course of time. Ge(of Huth)'s life as an archivist and an occasional packrat have allowed him access to all kinds of materials just before their owners have destroyed them forever. He collected these with no idea in mind of what to do with them, and eventually "Film Clips" came to be. The proximate impetus for this...