Don't Spread Germs by The Argent Grub
Channel: The Argent Grub
Date: 22/10/2021

This video takes an old UK public information film about germs, and mashes it up with a modern animation that covers similar ground, and a fresh soundtrack from The Argent Grub.

 But it didn’t start out that way…
… it started from a challenge to create some looped audio that could be re-used by others (over at Linux Musicians: https://linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=23699 ).

Once that was done I created a short track, which was nearly released as it was, but then I went searching for a voice to overlay onto the track.

I stumbled on the Don’t Spread Germs film: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/films/1945to1951/filmpage_dsg.htm and it seemed to be just the right message for these times. It also fits the audio well.

Then I found (OO) - Animation Short Film (2017) by Osro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHJprFGzH0k and had a go at fitting the old and the new together.

So what started as an audio project ended up as a video project. I think the audio works well on it’s own, so it’s available, free, at Bandcamp: https://theargentgrub.bandcamp.com/track/dont-spread-germs

CREDITS
Neither the film, or the finished track, would have been possible without people choosing to openly licence their material for re-use. So thank you for doing that.
Equally, all the software tools used to create the track and film were free and open source.

Don’t Spread Germs from the UK National Archives.Director John Krishhttps://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/films/1945to1951/filmpage_dsg.htm Reused under the Open Government Licence version 3

(OO) - Animation Short Film (2017) by Osro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHJprFGzH0kReused under the Creative Commons Attribution licence (reuse allowed)

SOFTWARE
Ardour: https://ardour.org
Audacity: https://www.audacityteam.org
Ubuntu: https://ubuntu.com/
Jack: https://jackaudio.org
GIMP: https://www.gimp.org/LibreOffice: https://www.libreoffice.org
Flowblade: https://jliljebl.github.io/flowblade/

PLUGINS
Ardour Community (https://ardour.org)
Calf Studio Gear (http://calf-studio-gear.org)
Chowdsp (https://github.com/jatinchowdhury18/AnalogTapeModel)
Dragonfly Reverbs by Michael Willis and Rob vd Berg (https://github.com/michaelwillis/dragonfly-reverb)
MOD Team (https://moddevices.com/gear-gallery/)Spencer Jackson (http://ssj71.github.io/infamousPlugins/)
Steve Harris (https://github.com/swh)
TAL-Togu Audio Line (https://tal-software.com/)


THANKS
UK National Archives:  https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/films/1945to1951/filmpage_dsg.htm
Osro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHJprFGzH0k
LJK, Stu
Anyone who has ever made a linux audio plugin:http://linux-sound.org/plugins.html


DOWNLOAD
Soundtrack available free at: https://theargentgrub.bandcamp.com/track/dont-spread-germs
Loops used in this track and others licensed for reuse: https://archive.org/details/libre-music-challenge-13