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This 10-minute film, seen here in full, promotes the consumption of milk as a health product. Helen is having afternoon tea with a friend who compliments Helen’s grown son on his sparkling white teeth. Helen credits them to the large amount of milk her son has consumed throughout his life.
Curator’s notes
In Take the Tempo from the Teeth, the audience eavesdrops on a conversation between two women who share the secrets of good health. Having an older and younger woman in the film widens the demographic to all women watching, potential as well as actual mothers. Classic still life set-ups reminiscent of cooking shows illustrate the different foods.
See also White River of Life (c1950), made for the NSW Milk Board a few years later, in which young women learn the benefits of milk in home science class and bring those lessons home to their parents.
