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For years, I have been working on a documentary project about the history of children's birthdays, and I am again putting out a call to anyone willing to share photos and videos from their childhood birthday for us to possibly use in the film. More details below!

@A_J_F_2020 You can see some of what we’re looking for at Defunctland.com/birthdays but we are interested in any time.

@Defunctland Any particular years?

For years, I have been working on a documentary project about the history of children's birthdays, and I am again putting out a call to anyone willing to share photos and videos from their childhood birthday for us to possibly use in the film. More details below!

@SheikYerbouti25 You can see some of what we're looking for at defunctland.com/birthdays!

@Defunctland Are there any kinds of photos or videos that might be more helpful than others

@specialcases Definitely looking for those types of places, please read defunctland.com/birthdays!

@Defunctland Are you restricting to home ones, or does this extend to ones at McDonald’s/Chuck E Cheese type of places?

@TomDPearson Yes, just disclose them as Canadian when submitting please

@Defunctland Canadian birthdays apply? Lol

@Kirvyx No, just as soon as you can!

@Defunctland Is there a time limit for this?

@Ediottttt No, just as soon as you can!

@Defunctland Is there a deadline to submit by?

@Zachruff Links are fine!

@Defunctland Is sharing links (vimeo/youtube) OK or does it have to be attached in the email itself?

@tangerinepot2 Yes absolutely, they are all archived and sorted!

@Defunctland If we already submitted photos or videos for the first call, are you still going to consider using them?

This is the biggest project (in terms of production, not runtime) that we've done yet, and we are grateful to anyone that will consider helping us in our search for more birthday media. Thank you and take care!

I first did a call for birthday media a few years ago. I initially envisioned this as a short video, but the submissions were some of the most beautiful, touching, funny, and human artifacts I had ever seen, and I knew it had to be something more to do this justice.

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Very sad news. We were so lucky to have such a talented and experienced person so willing to share their stories and knowledge with us. RIP Eddie.

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@Defunctland Is it possible to access it after the stream ends? Really want to donate and access it, but the timezone doesn't quite match mine, I'm in Tokyo time. :(

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