| Description |
1 videodisc : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in. |
| System Details |
DVD. |
| Note |
Title from container. |
| Summary |
The optimism of the 1950s is celebrated in these films produced in the 1950s. The Million Dollar Castle is a mini-feature that extols the virtues of building your own home featuring Beulah Bondi as a meddling old busybody. The Man from Missouri continues with the home-building kick as Jim Tanner becomes wildly enthusiastic over asbestos siding in new homes. Mother Takes a Holiday is a valentine to the Whirlpool washing machine, while Starting with Sears presents a tour of Sears Roebuck and Company -- from selling retail at the stores to filling orders from the catalog -- aimed at newly hired salespeople |
| Contents |
Million dollar castle / Beulah Bondi, Kent Taylor, Walter Abel (1954, 49 min.) -- The Man from Missouri -- Mother takes a Holiday -- Starting with Sears. |
| Note |
Million Dollar Castle (1954; color) is a 49-minute mini-feature that extols the virtues of building your own home. Nestled between two towering apartment buildings is the dark little mansion of Miss Calliope (BEULAH BONDI, Jimmy Stewart's mom in It's a Wonderful Life), a "meddling old busybody" who's rich and deaf but can read lips, and whose favorite pastime is looking out the shutters and peeping at the neighbors. And the neighbors that most fascinate her are Jerry Mitchell (KENT TAYLOR of Phantom from 10,000 Leagues and The Crawling Hand and his wife Susan, whose two-bedroom apartment is just too small for them. Miss Calliope invites builder John Hamilton (veteran character actor WALTER ABEL) to show the Mitchells how cheap and easy and utterly essential it is. |
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The Man from Missouri (color) continues with the home-building kick as Jim Tanner and his wife take a vacation from St. Louis by driving to Washington, D.C., and New York, with detours to homes being built along the way. And what is it that Jim is especially excited about? Why, asbestos siding, of course! Especially with that "quality shadow line that adds to the sales appeal of these homes!" No surprise, then, that this short ends with what is virtually a commercial for Old American asbestos-cement products! |
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Mother Takes a Holiday (color) is a valentine to that most wondrous of American inventions, Whirlpool washing machines! Marilyn has to do an essay on "The Liberation of the American Woman" for college and, seriously, there's nothing that has emancipated women more than Whirlpool washers. Best of all is a tour through a Whirlpool plant in Michigan where we see those babies built right before our envious eyes! No wonder Whirlpool is "most wanted by most women"! |
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Starting with Sears (b&w) is a tour of Sears Roebuck and Company -- from selling retail at the stores to filling orders from the catalog -- aimed at newly hired salespeople. |
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United States -- Civilization -- 1945-
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United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
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Popular culture -- United States -- 20th century.
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Sears, Roebuck and Company.
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Housing -- United States -- Drama.
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Prefabricated houses -- United States -- Drama.
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Asbestos in building.
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Washing machines.
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Sales personnel -- Training of.
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| Added Author |
Bondi, Beulah, 1892-1981
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Taylor, Kent, 1907-1987
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Abel, Walter, 1898-1987
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Whirlpool Corporation.
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Something Weird Video (Firm)
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| Added Title |
Lifestyles USA. Vol. 33 |
| Music No. |
37274 Something Weird Video |
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