| Description |
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sd., col., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Note |
Title from cassette label. |
| Summary |
Presents business & educational film shorts produced from 1946 through 1956. Topics include: Selling the new model 1952 Chevrolet, the value of talking over problems, both personal and business, freedom to read and book banning, the history of food preservation, immigration, careers in retail, and investing money in the New York Stock Exchange. |
| Contents |
You're ahead, Mr. X -- Room for discussion -- Freedom to read -- Yesterday, today and tomorrow -- Immigration -- Success story -- Working dollars. |
| Note |
You're Ahead, Mr. X (b&w) gets things off to a great start as car salesman JEFFREY LYNN sells a 1952 Chevrolet to...The Invisible Man! No kidding. An invisible customer strolls right into a Chevy salesroom (with a godawful special effect providing his footsteps on a carpet), plays with a car's handles and pedals, then takes it out for an invisible spin. He is, of course, "a symbol of millions of satisfied Chevrolet owners" and no doubt ready to make the world grovel at his feet. |
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Room for Discussion (b&w) demonstrates the value of gab. High-schooler Dennis can't solve a pent-up problem until he talks it out with Mom and Dad. And a factory averts a strike by talking grievances with management. Fair enough. But then things go a little too far by showing how various people's lives are quickly improved when they get involved with community Discussion Groups: "Talking it over can be effective whether it concerns personal problems, family problems, or problems of society at large!" |
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Freedom to Read (b&w) is a surprisingly thoughtful discussion on book banning (from JULIAN ROFFMAN, director of the 1961 The Mask) which pits a strong-willed librarian against an over-zealous group of patriots who want books on Communism removed from a local library. And though it leaves the questions it raises unanswered, it tips the scales with a major endorsement from President Eisenhower "We must be alert not only to the fanatic cunning of the Communist conspiracy, but to the grave dangers in meeting freedom with ignorance!" |
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Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (b&w) is not only the longest film on this collection, but a 31-minute costumed mini-epic about...food preservation (!) starting with Napoleon worrying about feeding his soldiers, through Peter Duran's 1810 experiments with cans of exploding peas, to the American Civil War -- with a cameo from a wildly over-acted Louis Pasteur--and ending with the humble beginnings of ketchup-king Henry Heinz and his first bottles of horse radish: "Good home cooking put up in cans!" |
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Immigration (b&w) short and sweet: problems in Europe lead to Ellis Island and the wonderfully ethnic slums and ghettos of America! Hurray for Foreigners! |
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Success Story (color) shows what it takes to have "a tremendous and exciting career in retail selling" by zeroing in on Miss Barrie, a very-impressed-with-herself fashion saleswoman who's not only "honestly interested" in the clothes she sells, but possesses that "extra bit of enthusiasm that means so much." |
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Working Dollars (color) is a cartoon for grown-ups from 1956 suggesting that the best place for those extra dollars is the New York Stock Exchange. Just ask for a Monthly Investment Plan and watch those "satisfactory dividends" roll in. |
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United States -- Civilization -- 1945-
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Popular culture -- United States -- 20th century.
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United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
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Automobile industry and trade -- United States.
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Discussion.
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Censorship -- United States.
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Investments -- United States.
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Food -- Preservation -- History.
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Clerks (Retail trade) -- United States.
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United States -- Emigration and immigration.
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| Added Author |
Something Weird Video (Firm)
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| Added Title |
Lifestyles USA |
| ISBN |
$24.95 |
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