Shows the interdependence of all workers, jobs, and mechanization in the manufacturing process from raw materials to finished product, focusing on the car industry, and argues that this leads to greater personal independence and freedom.
Training film demonstrating the correct procedure for uncrating and assembling the P-47 fighter aircraft under field conditions. A dismantled plane is uncrated, put together, inspected, and flown off on camera.
Two city kids spend a summer on Uncle Jim's dairy farm. They tend to the animals, climb a rope, and learn all kinds of fun farm facts
Tour of an auto parts and accessories factory climaxing with a stop-motion product parade.
An angel and a devil try to persuade a borderline wholesale bakery salesman to their side.
Comedian Edgar Kennedy teaches a driving safety lesson.
Chevrolet presents this tribute to the American woman and her thrifty ways with money. The film also salutes the individuality of the Amerian citizen and the variety of choices we have in the marketplace.
A visiting young man prefers the household electrical appliances over the teenage daughter!
A commercial short film presented by Anheuser-Busch to showcase large modern freezers that make it easier for grocers to sell their goods and make higher profits. It is aimed at businesses that require display freezers for their products.
Innovations in the bowling world are featured in this 1960 promotional film produced by American bowling equipment manufacturer Brunswick.
A corporate history of the Coca-Cola Company.
Officer O'Mara, a normally grumpy traffic cop, lightens up one day and smiles at a passing motorist. This sets off a chain of goodwill and pleasantness in the entire town, which leads to better business practices, but leaves O'Mara wondering why everyone is now so pleasant.
Producer's synopsis: "This picture shows how professional models -- beautiful girls -- are used in making up magazine covers. A Chevrolet is shown on the magazine cover, emphasizing its beauty."
The film discusses the fascinating world of color perception, particularly from the perspective of various creatures, including fish and lobsters. It explains how human eyes function like cameras, focusing light to create images, and describes the roles of rods and cones in vision.
A stuntman plans to launch a small plane o0ff the roof of a speeding car. The local newspaper sends a photographer to cover thee event, but also sends a truck with a new technological device that will enable the photographer to send his photos to the newspaper almost immediately: device that can transmit photos over telephone wire. The mechanics of that process are then explained to the viewer.
GM employees rise in the morning and go to work in the factories, design studios, and offices of General Motors across the country. They receive their wages and shop for not only necessities, but some luxuries as well, in twelve cities across the country where GM factories are located. Local architecture and regional foods are highlighted. The workers then head home to their families for dinner, recreation, and bed.
This short film presented by the Reynolds Metals Company details how aluminum is manufactured and illustrates the seemingly endless uses of this versatile product.
Humorous "sketches" of human interest stories by Max Fleischer, who headed Jam Handy's animation department in the mid 1940s and 1950s.
This narrated film about persistence of vision (how movies work) has a good narrator and lots of fun visuals. High points: A weird scene inside a movie theater (as chorus girls toss flowers down a hill) and a great car crash at the end (Jam Handy had to work a Chevy into this film somehow).
Most marvel at how close formation fliers go about their maneuvers, but what everyday drivers on the road are required to do are much the same in needing to know where other vehicles on the road within close proximity are. But while a precision flyer knows what his fellow formation fliers beside him are going to do, a driver on the road may not know the driver in the cars close to him, and can only go by the rules of the road to guide him. A driver should try to view his situation much like the flyer from a bird's eye perspective while still paying attention to what he himself is doing. The four vehicle formation that any driver should always be constantly aware of is himself, the vehicle in front of him, the vehicle behind him, and the unknown/unseen vehicle around any corner. Several on road situations and the four vehicles involved are then shown.
