Thinking of conception [videorecording] / by David Bunn. [1986]

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Thinking of conception [videorecording] / by David Bunn. [1986]

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/123502430

In a parody of an educational film, Bunn employs visual and verbal puns on the word 'conception,' moving from the product of an idea, a province in Peru, and the act of sex, as the map of South America metamorphoses into a man's swimsuited crotch, with the green bikini area matching the green outline of Peru.

1 videocassette of 1 (U-Matic) (6 min.) : sd., col. ; 3/4 in. original.

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