A Kiss Without a Mustache is Like an Egg Without Salt

A Kiss Without a Mustache
Is Like an Egg Without Salt
An imaginative and highly entertaining documentary on the history
and culture of facial hair. Shot on video. 24:34 min. Completed in 2004

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HIGHLIGHTS / STILLS

Opening title	The razor is the most commonly used tool amongst North American males.

A braided beard.	Primitive man plucked his whiskers using clam shells.	A young man's first beard.

An old pro.	Egyptians were obsessed with removing body hair.	Women go to great lengths today.

It's fun to experiment with facial hair.	A little off here, and a little there.	The unbridled masculinity of bikers.


Beards and religion.	. . .	A Neil Young look-a-like?

The golden age of American facial hair	. . .	Old Burnsides

Villains & beards.	. . .	Persecuted for wearing the beard.

"I can't find his mouth."	The wife's opinion	What do women think?

. . .	. . .	What do children think?

. . .	. . .	Ancestors.

The World Beard & Mustache Championships.	. . .	. . .



	Travis's fantasy beard.	An end credit
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CREDITS: Score composed by T. E. BREITENBACH Photography by DAN SWINTON, RAEANNE WRIGHT, JAY GAMBELL Animation by AARON WALSMAN, TOM SMOLENSKI Subjects / Cast CAT ANGST, NIKE BARAKAT, DAN BARKER, PAUL BLOCK, RUTH & JOE BREITENBACH, DARREN BRENNESSEL, WILLIAM A. BREWER, DOUG CLAUSON, ELIZABETH CORY, LOU DOMANICO, ALY HAHAS, CARL HARDERS, LEE HOUSER, MARK HOUSEMAN, GARY JOHNSON, JUSTIN KATZE, SEAN KEETON, NICOLE KILLIAM, NORMAN LARSON, TRACY LONG, MACK McCARTHY, CAITLIN K. MENNEN, MARY & OAKLEY NEITZEL, ALEX PARACHINI, ALOIS PLETTL, JOON POWELL, MENDEL RUBIN, DAWN M. SARGENT, PHILLIS SHILLING, TOM SMOLENSKI, SARA STRYJEWSKI, NICOLE SWINTON, MARK TEALE, DAVID TRAVER, AL WERTEMAN Special Thanks to MY FRIENDS & FAMILY, NANCY GHERTNER, HOWARD LESTER, MALCOLM SPAULL & THATCHER STARE PARK. FIRELIGHT PRODUCTIONS, THE GRANGER HOMESTEAD, THE WORLD BEARD & MUSTACHE CHAMPIONSHIPS, LACONIA MOTORCYCLE WEEK Princess Grace Honorarium Recipient, 2003 Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the BFA degree in the School of Film & Animation, Rochester Institute of Technology Copyright Travis Breitenbach, 2004 travisbreitenbach.com