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I am not sure this is going to work, but its a neat little short film about the New Zealand school dentist. Back in its day, going to the dentist was known as going to "The Murder House". 
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I was watching a 16mm print called "The New Zealanders" a while back and it reminded me of the above short film. I must say I am glad I never went to school here
The dentist I went to in Scotland was known as Dick the Monster, although to be fair to him, his fillings lasted for years. He was X army dentist, rough as guts and wore thick glasses so he could see what he was doing. The blunt drill bits, used to ping all over the place in your mouth
he would stop often and rummage through his bits and pieces box to find the least blunt one...no kidding, Anyway here are a couple of screen shots. The 16mm print is from the 1960s and its in stunning Kodachrome. 
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Back in the '40s our dental nurse(in Auckland) had a treadle drill.An instrument that was truly an instrument of
torture. One time she put the drill bit right through my tongue.Ouch!
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Anyone been to the dentist lately? The background music here in Mr Bean reminds me a bit of "2001"
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