How to Kill

digital / GIF, 480×360, animated / animated loop / origin unverified / accessioned / catalogued curio

The object before the record.

FI-EPH-354 — How to Kill
FI-EPH-354 / How to Kill / source photograph 01

Evidence, relevance, and unresolved state.

Custody record

Logged 2026-09-26 / quantity 1 digital image (animated GIF). 1 source asset reference registered.

What is known

Found clip supplied for The Shadow Zone: a black-and-white animated loop of about 3.8 seconds, seen here through a representative frame. An early, pie-eyed Mickey Mouse stands inside a circular iris vignette, reading an open book whose cover is titled "HOW TO KILL," beside a crate or box. The drawing style matches Disney's early-1930s shorts. The specific short, the scene's context, and whether the cover text is original or edited are unverified. Maker, origin, and date are not recorded. The exif scrub reported no location metadata to strip.

Why it remains connected

accessioned / catalogued curio. Disposition: archive. The object remains associated with The Shadow Zone.

What remains unresolved

digital / GIF, 480×360, animated / animated loop / origin unverified. accessioned / catalogued curio. Terms marked unknown, provisional, pending, or unverified remain part of the record until evidence resolves them.

Keep the object connected.

The Shadow Zone

A holding zone for surreal found media and uncanny artifacts that surface around the archive — images with no clear origin, kept as evidence of the culture that accretes on forgotten machines.

Associated dossier / FI-PROJ-010 / open

Source Assets / 1 reference

Raw archive paths are retained for provenance and maintenance. They are not the primary object presentation.

  1. assets/ephemera/shadow-zone/fi-eph-354-mickey-how-to-kill.gif Open local asset